Clavinova The Official Piano of Holiday Retirement Corporation
SALEM, OR (August 26, 2005) — Holiday Retirement Corporation places a high premium on the care, comfort and entertainment of its residents. It also has a unique musical mandate for its facilities – the inclusion of pianos at each of the 300 independent retirement facilities it manages to provide a relaxing musical diversion for its residents.
But finding the ideal instrument to meet the corporation’s range of needs was challenging. The purchasing department searched for a piano vendor for roughly a year until late 2004, when the local Yamaha dealer, Weathers Music, connected the company with Yamaha Keyboard Consultant George Dixon. Dixon offered a range of recommendations that would be appropriate for the facility. After reviewing a number of products, such as the Disklavier GranTouch and the Clavinova CVP Series, the corporation found the perfect instrument to meet its substantial musical and entertainment requirements: a digital piano with a baby grand look – the Clavinova CLP-175.
Based in Salem, Oregon, Holiday Retirement Corporation, with its related entities, manages retirement facilities – averaging 115 apartments each – located in 39 U.S. states and seven provinces in Canada, as well as properties in the United Kingdom and France. The corporation’s facilities boast impeccably appointed interiors furnished by Holiday Interiors, the organization’s design subsidiary. Holiday Interiors has one steadfast design requirement – furnishing baby grand-type pianos for entryways and dining rooms. This mandate means that all residents are free to play if they wish, or can enjoy performances by outside performers during their leisure time or while dining.
The corporation ordered one Clavinova and, before they were even invoiced, asked to purchase 11 more. Fifteen of the digital pianos have been purchased since December 2004 and Holiday anticipates receiving approximately 40 more units by year’s end, so that each of the nearly 60 separate communities in the U.S. will have its own CLP-175.
According to Holiday Retirement Corporation Buyer Kate Voigt, Yamaha is unique in that it established a rapport with the facility via its local dealer. “What we are most impressed with is Yamaha’s outstanding service,” she says. “That was the deciding factor to go with Yamaha.”
Voigt cites one case where a piano had been delivered with a keyboard cover that had some minor damage. Yamaha replaced not only the cover, but the entire instrument. “We have been very, very pleased with the customer service,” she raves.
The beauty, sound quality and value of these instruments have been appreciated by residents as well. “Our residents think the Clavinovas are wonderful,” states Voigt. “They are beautiful pianos.”
Clavinova pianos are used in The Clavinova Connection, a group-based experience for adults that enables even beginners to play music they’ve always loved on the very first day. Scientific testing of the principles behind the Clavinova Connection has documented stress reduction and wellness benefits. The program is a form of Recreational Music Making, a new music making approach characterized by enjoyable, accessible and fulfilling group music-based activities that unite people of all ages regardless of their challenges, backgrounds, ethnicity or prior experience.
For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622, telephone (714) 522-9011, or e-mail infostation@yamaha.com.
The Marquette, Holiday Retirement Corporation's facility in Lansing, Mich.
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Based in Salem, Oregon, Holiday Retirement Corporation, with its related entities, manages retirement facilities – averaging 115 apartments each – located in 39 U.S. states and seven provinces in Canada, as well as properties in the United Kingdom and France. The corporation’s facilities boast impeccably appointed interiors furnished by Holiday Interiors, the organization’s design subsidiary. Holiday Interiors has one steadfast design requirement – furnishing baby grand-type pianos for entryways and dining rooms. This mandate means that all residents are free to play if they wish, or can enjoy performances by outside performers during their leisure time or while dining.
The corporation ordered one Clavinova and, before they were even invoiced, asked to purchase 11 more. Fifteen of the digital pianos have been purchased since December 2004 and Holiday anticipates receiving approximately 40 more units by year’s end, so that each of the nearly 60 separate communities in the U.S. will have its own CLP-175.
 The Yamaha Clavinova CLP-175 |
Voigt cites one case where a piano had been delivered with a keyboard cover that had some minor damage. Yamaha replaced not only the cover, but the entire instrument. “We have been very, very pleased with the customer service,” she raves.
The beauty, sound quality and value of these instruments have been appreciated by residents as well. “Our residents think the Clavinovas are wonderful,” states Voigt. “They are beautiful pianos.”
Clavinova pianos are used in The Clavinova Connection, a group-based experience for adults that enables even beginners to play music they’ve always loved on the very first day. Scientific testing of the principles behind the Clavinova Connection has documented stress reduction and wellness benefits. The program is a form of Recreational Music Making, a new music making approach characterized by enjoyable, accessible and fulfilling group music-based activities that unite people of all ages regardless of their challenges, backgrounds, ethnicity or prior experience.
For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622, telephone (714) 522-9011, or e-mail infostation@yamaha.com.
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