In the past, many pianists have contended with cantankerous neighbours who complain about loud practising during the day or late-night schedules that preclude practising for fear of waking even reasonable neighbours. This led to the development of the technology referred to as Yamaha Silent Piano, which effectively provided a practical solution to all these problems.

Yamaha has now combined the two worlds of acoustic and digital by creating a completely-new kind of experience called the TransAcoustic technology.

This technology transfers the digital sound of the silent piano into the instrument’s soundboard instead of the headphones. Two transducers attached to the piano’s soundboard convert the digital signal into electro-mechanical impulses that set the soundboard vibrating – literally turning the soundboard into a loudspeaker membrane which means that the sound is actually delivered through a naturally-resonant piano component.

This component allows the player to adjust the volume of this ‘half-acoustic’ piano sound and also to play with other instrument sounds in TransAcoustic mode, such as harpsichord, marimba or electric piano. It is also possible to layer any of the 19 digital sounds on top of the standard, hammer-striking-string piano voice.

Another advantage over pure digital sound is that when using the damper pedal in TransAcoustic mode the piano strings will pick up some of the digital sound in an acoustic phenomenon called ‘sympathetic resonance’. One can try this by depressing the right pedal in an acoustic piano and singing or shouting into the piano.

For more information call the Olimpus Music Store on 2133 2093.

www.olimpusmusic.com

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