Yamaha Hybrid Pianos

The Acoustic Piano Reimagined

Yamaha’s hybrid pianos continue to inspire players of all levels as they combine the best of acoustic and digital pianos. Get silence without the sacrifice with Yamaha’s SILENT Piano™, experience the world’s most incredible acoustic speaker with the TransAcoustic™, explore every nuance captured in the AvantGrand, or encounter the Disklavier, the world’s most advanced piano.

Yamaha Hybrid Pianos

The Acoustic Piano Reimagined

Yamaha’s hybrid pianos continue to inspire players of all levels as they combine the best of acoustic and digital pianos. Get silence without the sacrifice with Yamaha’s SILENT Piano™, experience the world’s most incredible acoustic speaker with the TransAcoustic™, explore every nuance captured in the AvantGrand, or encounter the Disklavier, the world’s most advanced piano.

AvantGrand
The Best of Both Worlds

SILENT Piano™
Silence Without Sacrifice

TransAcoustic™
A New Breed of Piano

Disklavier
The World’s Most Advanced Piano

Yamaha AvantGrand

A hybrid piano that doesn’t settle for acoustic approximations, the Yamaha AvantGrand recreates the sound and feel of two legendary concert grand pianos. It’s meticulously crafted from more than 5,000 genuine parts to deliver the unmistakable touch of a Yamaha acoustic piano, from the natural vibrations of the strings to the subtle harmonics and rich overtones.  The AvantGrand is everything you want from an acoustic piano and everything you need in a digital.

True Acoustic Action

AvantGrand doesn’t just replicate the experience of playing a Yamaha acoustic piano. It uses the same mechanism and parts to deliver the action, weight and responsiveness the most demanding players crave.

Natural Feel

Yamaha’s innovative Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) simulates the resonance of an acoustic piano. Their Tactile Response System (TRS) recreates the subtle sensation you feel in your hands and feet while pressing the keys and pedals. Even when playing with headphones.

Every Nuance, Every Note

Yamaha’s patented non-contact Optical Sensor System continuously measures the movement, timing, depth and force of every key attack and release to faithfully capture and reproduce the subtle nuances of your performance.

Rich, Authentic Sound

The remarkable sound of the AvantGrand is sampled from four different positions on a piano soundboard using Yamaha’s proprietary Spatial Acoustic Sampling process. Four beautifully sculpted speakers shape the natural tones, colors and harmonics to deliver the true sound of the original acoustic instruments.

Plays Well With Others

AvantGrand connects effortlessly with your audio and MIDI devices for recording, live sound or broadcast and works with computers, mixing boards and Bluetooth®-enabled devices.

Available Models

SILENT Piano™

By day, it’s a world-renowned acoustic piano. By night, the neighbors won’t hear a thing. SILENT Piano™ puts the sound and presence of the world’s finest concert grands in your headphones. Simply switch the piano into SILENT mode and Yamaha’s digital technology reproduces the acoustic tones, nuanced colors and resonance so faithfully, you’ll almost forget you’re wearing headphones.

Born to Be Silent

Each Yamaha SILENT Piano™ is conceived, designed and built from the ground up, fashioned by Yamaha master craftsmen in the same factory using the same time-honored, traditional methods as Yamaha’s acoustic pianos.

Pure, Natural Sound

Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) recreates the resonance of your acoustic piano in your headphones. Yamaha’s advanced binaural sampling method simulates the sound you hear when sitting at the piano and Smooth Release Technology models the subtle interactions of the piano strings with the damper.

Every Nuance, Every Note

Yamaha’s advanced non-contact Articulation Sensor System continuously measures the movement, timing, depth and force of every key attack and release to faithfully capture and reproduce the subtle nuances of your performance.

Multiple Voice Options

The world-renowned Yamaha CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial concert grands are two of many digital voices available when you plug in your headphones. You can also add electric pianos, harpsichords, organs, strings, choir and synth pad.

Plays Well With Others

It’s easy to connect SILENT Piano™ with your audio and MIDI devices for recording, live sound or broadcast. You can also choose voices, record your performances, display a score and more on your smartphone or tablet with the Yamaha Smart Pianist App.

Available Models

b1-SC2

Yamaha b3SC SILENT Piano

b2-SC2

Yamaha b3SC SILENT Piano

b3-SC2

Yamaha b3SC SILENT Piano

U1-SH2

Yamaha U1SH SILENT Piano

U3-SH2

Yamaha U3SH SILENT Piano

YUS3-SH2

Yamaha YUS3SH SILENT Piano

YUS5-SH2

Interested in a different piano model? The SILENT Piano™ System can be added to most special orders for Yamaha upright and grand piano models.
Contact us to learn more!

Yamaha SILENT piano with iPad running the Smart Pianist app.

TransAcoustic™

An acoustic piano with volume control, or a digital piano with strings? The Yamaha TransAcoustic™ is a new breed of piano that stretches the imagination and opens a whole new world of possibilities. It’s a true acoustic piano that uses its soundboard to naturally amplify digital sounds, turning your instrument into the world’s most incredible acoustic speaker.

The Soundboard is
Your Amplifier

When a hammer strikes a string, all elements of an acoustic piano resonate together to amplify the instrument’s sound. TransAcoustic Technology uses these acoustic elements to bring digital sounds to life, allowing you to adjust the volume and experience the piano in a whole new way.

Let There Be
Light Tranducers

Yamaha created a state-of-the-art, ultra-light transducer that can turn digital sounds into vibrations and apply them directly to the soundboard. All without sacrificing the remarkable acoustic tone you’ve come to expect from a Yamaha piano.

Every Nuance,
Every Note

Yamaha’s patented non-contact Optical Sensor System continuously measures the movement, timing, depth and force of every key attack and release to faithfully capture and reproduce the subtle nuances of your performance.

SILENT Piano™
Technology

SILENT Piano™ technology puts the sound and presence of the world’s finest concert grands in your headphones. Simply switch your TransAcoustic piano into SILENT mode and hear acoustic tones, nuanced colors and resonance so grand you’ll almost forget you’re wearing headphones.

Plays Well
With Others

It’s easy to connect TransAcoustic™ with your audio and MIDI devices for recording, live sound or broadcast and it works seamlessly with computers, mixing boards and Bluetooth®-enabled devices.

 Yamaha TransAcoustic™ models are temporarily unavailable. Contact us for availability.

Contact Us About Yamaha Hybrid Pianos

For questions about Yamaha piano selection and pricing:

In Pennsylvania
please call 717-569-8100

and ask for Gail or
email Gail.

In Maryland
please call 410-453-6635
and ask for Gayle or
email Gayle.