New Demonstration Disk Bring Vocal Harmony To Life

BUENA PARK, CA (September 20, 2002) — Yamaha authorized retailers have a new resource designed to strengthen showroom demonstrations of the CVP-200 Series of Clavinova Digital Pianos. The "Vocal Harmony Demonstration Disk," provided to dealers free of charge, uses automatic settings and carefully chosen musical selections to show off the pianos' remarkable Vocal Harmony, Karao-Key, Vocal CueTIME and Total Pitch Correction capabilities for prospective buyers.

"This disk cuts right to the chase, right to the harmonies," explains Dane Madsen, Product Manager, Piano Division, Yamaha Corporation of America. "It brings up the right settings with a minimum of keystrokes, and includes tunes that make use of these features all the way through. To understand what these vocal options are all about, a customer doesn't have to watch you page through menus, or wait an entire minute for harmonies in a 'true to the original' karaoke disk."

Vocal Harmony is a feature that takes a singer's microphone input and reproduces it as up to three separate vocal performances in perfect harmony. Karao-Key lets users control the timing of the piano's accompaniment by pressing any key on the instrument to mark each syllable as they sing, while Vocal CueTIME automates that process by recognizing the correct vocal pitch and synchronizing the accompaniment to match. The amazing Total Pitch Correction feature takes singing in any pitch – even a deliberate monotone – and reproduces it so that each note comes out in the correct pitch.

The musical selections on the disk are familiar standards, rich with passages that make use of the CVP-200 Series vocal capabilities. The tunes include "Lean on Me," "Can't Help Falling in Love," "Love Me Tender," "Red River Valley," "Witch Doctor," "Disco Feel," "Tomorrow," "Popeye the Sailor Man," "God Bless America" and The Chipmunks' "Christmas/Don't Be Late." No matter how they actually sing, sales prospects will be able to hear the Clavinova make them sound like Popeye, an opera star – even a "Chipmunk."

Precisely because of the wide variety of vocal processing features built into the CVP-207, CVP-209 and CVP-900 Clavinovas, the process of demonstrating them all in the showroom needed to be streamlined so that buyers could grasp them quickly, Madsen says. The demonstration disk answers that need, and Yamaha retailers should already have received them in the mail. Retailers who need additional or replacement copies can request them free of charge by ordering part no. KCVHDD200 through their regular merchandise ordering channels.

For more information about the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-200 Series digital pianos, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622-6600; email infostation@yamaha.com; or telephone (714) 522-9011.