Yamaha CLP-825R Digital Piano, Dark Rosewood

The Yamaha CLP-825’s Grand Expression Modeling and GrandTouch pedals deliver expressive capabilities approaching those of a grand piano, along with the voices of two of the world’s finest grands: the Yamaha CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial. Full range of digital piano functions, including Bluetooth audio.

The Clavinova CLP Series boasts excellent playability along with a refined, authentic design that blends a compact form with modern aesthetics in a manner befitting the instrument that sets the contemporary standard for pianos. At the heart of the Clavinova design concept is the way the player feels when they take their seat in front of a Clavinova piano. Unnecessary elements are removed from the player’s field of view to create a convincingly natural space that feels just like sitting at an acoustic piano. This represents Yamaha’s consideration to players who practice on Clavinova and perform on grand pianos—they are able to take the stage free of tension or worry because everything feels normal, as it should. A Clavinova piano is a part of the player’s everyday life—contemporary accents and colour variation are available to mesh with any interior design or lifestyle.

One of the best reasons to choose a Clavinova CLP-800 Series piano is access to multiple pianos on a single instrument, from world-class concert grand pianos to fortepianos for a more authentic classical music experience. The CLP-800 Series is equipped with a new tone generator chip developed by Yamaha that deliver their highest-quality, most beautiful piano voices to date.

Clavinova pianos feature voices of two world-renowned concert grand pianos. One of them is the CFX, Yamaha’s top-flight concert grand piano. Pianists around the world are enamoured with the impressive, dazzling, richly expressive sound of the CFX in concert halls. Another sampled concert grand is the Imperial, the flagship model of Bösendorfer, a time-honoured Viennese piano brand with an ardent following. The Imperial is known for its abundance of colour and natural, warm feeling. Yamaha faithfully reproduces the idiosyncrasies of these concert grand pianos by carefully recording the entire tonal range of each of the 88 keys, making minute adjustments to capture the most harmonious tones each piano has to offer.

CLP-800 Series pianos are also equipped with the voices of the fortepiano, the predecessor to the modern piano. The sounds emitted by a fortepiano are simpler than those of a modern piano, and decay much more rapidly. Hearing the sounds of the instruments played when the likes of Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin were composing their songs should illuminate the original intent behind the notes on the page. Here is a novel opportunity to communicate with historical composers by playing these period instruments.

The list of keyed instrument voices goes on to include electric pianos, organs, and more. A single CLP-800 Series piano is all you need to enjoy music from different eras and genres, from jazz and pop to healing music and 1980s classic rock.

Experience The Sensation Of Playing A Living Piano
The true pleasure of playing a grand piano is when the player can add expression to each and every note with total control over their touch and have the entire instrument respond by ringing out in full splendour.

Such a playing experience is created by the complex interaction of the 8,000 parts that make up the instrument; Clavinova CLP Series pianos replicate these physical phenomena with the help of Grand Expression Modeling and Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM), two of Yamaha’s proprietary digital technologies.

Players can experience the effects of Grand Expression Modeling by playing a song on a CLP-800 Series piano. For example, playing the many fast passages in Mozart’s “Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major”—a piece familiar to piano students—with the same light touch as you would on a grand piano results in a rolling, light-hearted tone, yet each note is clearly distinct from the others. When the same note is played repeatedly with the damper pedal down to sustain the sound, these pianos replicate the natural tonal variation produced by the physical phenomena in grand pianos by simulating the way the hammers strike strings that are already vibrating. This allows the player to add expression to repeated notes as if they were practising on a grand piano, a useful option in places like the development of Beethoven’s “Für Elise.”

In CLP Series pianos, VRM also replicates the momentary dynamics and deep resonance that are produced by the entire body of a grand piano. With CLP Series pianos, we invite you to enjoy a lush playing experience that is as close as it gets to a grand piano.

Speaker Systems
When a pianist plays a grand piano, they cause the entire body of the instrument to reverberate, and become enveloped in the colourful tones created from the combination of various acoustic elements in the air around them. The pianist becomes immersed in the diffusing sound and reverberation. CLP-800 Series pianos deliver this pleasant feeling through Grand Acoustic Imaging and other distinct acoustic technologies. Moreover, a new tone generator chip allows fine-tuning and control of the sonic elements of each frequency band, dramatically improving the precision of sound design.

The concept behind the acoustic design of the CLP-800 Series is to cause sound to radiate into the surrounding space as widely as it does from grand pianos. For example, the CLP-865GP/845/835/825 feature diffusers—a special mechanism for diffusing sound. The higher-end CLP-895GP/885/875 models replicate the rich grand piano sound with diffusers in addition to waveguides, Bidirectional Horns and cleverly placed and oriented speakers. These design features allow players to feel the sensations of the sound filling the entire space, the hammers striking the strings in front of them, and the reverberation dissipating into the edges of the space (Grand Acoustic Imaging).

GrandTouch-S Keys and Pedals
The GrandTouch-S keyboards were designed around the concept of “a keyboard with the feel of a grand piano action,” with the goal of allowing pianists to feel the keyboard with their fingertips in the same way as they would when playing a grand piano, and from there to create exactly the sound that they are looking for. Specifically, these keyboards are notable for their responsiveness, offering everything from light, delicately nuanced tones to boldly powerful notes in answer to the strength with which the pianist plays the keys. They replicate the pleasing response felt when the grand piano hammers strike the string, and are free of any wobble when pressed to their fullest extent. Highly absorbent synthetic-ivory white keys and synthetic-ebony black keys prevent slipping even during extended play and feel just like those of a grand piano.

The pianist controls the pedals to add expression to the music, and makes frequent fine adjustments to how deeply they depress them in order to create the envisioned sound.

On a grand piano, pedalling requires more force when depressing the pedal, with the pedal feeling lighter on the return. This is because lifting a heavy damper requires more power than lowering it. GrandTouch pedals differ significantly from those in previous CLP Series pianos in that they replicate not only the resistance on the toes when the pedals are depressed, but also how that resistance lessens as the pianist returns the pedals to their original positions, a telltale physical property of grand piano pedals. This enables more precise pedalling and subtler changes in tonal expression, not only when depressing the pedals, but also by making it easier to hold the pedals in mid-stroke and control them as they slowly return to their original positions.

Sound So Good That You Forget You’re Wearing Headphones
One advantage of choosing a digital piano is that you can play with headphones on to keep your surroundings quiet. However, many people may find that their ears become fatigued if they play with headphones on for too long. One of the main reasons for this is that sound played directly into the ears is completely different from the natural sound of an actual piano.

Binaural sampling solves this problem. This is a method of sampling in which special microphones are placed on a mannequin’s head in the same positions as the pianist’s ears to capture piano sounds the way that they sound in reality. This makes pianists feel as though they are sitting at a grand piano even when they play with headphones on. The experience is so pleasant that they forget they are wearing headphones, no matter how long they continue to play. On the CLP-825, binaural sampling was used for the Yamaha CFX.

Yamaha also developed the Stereophonic Optimizer function to achieve the same effect for the piano effects. Stereophonic Optimizer technology replicates the natural diffusion of sound in headphones nearly as closely as binaural sampling for the piano voices other than the CFX and Imperial.

Get More With The Smart Pianist App
Smart Pianist is a free application for use with Yamaha digital pianos/hybrid pianos that can create song data from PDF scores and then play it back, as well as analyse song data stored in your smart device and display chord progressions or piano accompaniment scores. The Bluetooth® MIDI function of the CLP-800 Series lets you connect to Smart Pianist wirelessly.

Combining Smart Pianist with a CLP-800 Series makes it easier to enjoy playing the songs you want to play and increases your performance repertoire.

Bluetooth Audio Streaming
You can play music through the audio system on the CLP-800 Series by using a Bluetooth-enabled smart device. You can stream audio data such as mp3 files, and even enjoy playing along with any songs on your smart device.

Enjoy Playing Along With Dynamic Rhythm Playback
The CLP-800 Series comes complete with 20 different and simple rhythm patterns (drums and bass accompaniment) that are perfectly suited to many types of music, letting you spice up your performance with some backing musicians, make practice more interesting, or open up your creative flow with inspiring new ideas.

High-Quality Recording Functionality
The CLP-800 Series offers a variety of ways for you to record your favourite performances, described below.

Multi-track MIDI Song Recorder
The recording function featured in the CLP-800 Series allows you to record your performances with a single touch, which is useful when you want to review your playing objectively. Additionally, you can record up to 16 tracks for simultaneous playback, so different hands can be recorded separately or overdub parts with different voices. Recordings are made in MIDI format and can also be saved on a USB flash drive. Compatible software is required for playback of recorded data on a computer.

Recording to the Smart Pianist app
You can record your performance in Audio or MIDI format. The recorded data is saved to the smart device. When the piano is connected to Smart Pianist via Bluetooth MIDI, only MIDI recording is possible.

Dimensions and Weight

• Width: 1,350 mm [53-1/8"]
• Height: 849 mm [33-7/16"] (with music rest raised: 1,003 mm [39-½"])
• Depth: 411 mm [16-3/16"]
• Weight: 45 kg [99 lb, 3 oz]