Yamaha C5x
Yamaha C5X Grand Piano: A Legacy of Refinement
Yamaha’s grand piano tradition isn’t about resisting change; it’s a relentless pursuit of perfection. Building on decades of refinement with the C Series and the groundbreaking CFX, the Yamaha C5X grand piano delivers a clear sound, sparkling tone, and transparent harmonies in an elegant design. This dedication to innovation allows Yamaha to uphold its musical heritage while transforming any space into a concert hall.
Strings
It is music wire that actually creates sound of a piano. While affected by its matching with the hammers, soundboard and body of the piano, music wire has a profound effect on the timbre and sustain of the instrument. The CX Series utilizes music wire that produces a rich sound with a full complexity of overtones in its middle and upper registers. Coupled with the support from a solid foundation, this gives CX Series pianos a rich, harmonic sound.
Hammers
Great hammers are essential to producing a beautifully expressive, malleable sound. Yamaha, unlike most other piano manufacturers, produces most of its own high-quality components, and is constantly looking for new ways to use the abilities developed through doing so to give our piano hammers tonality, resilience, and power. The CX Series has also benefitted from the results of this research and development, and utilizes the same felt as the CFX, adjusted to match the size of each instrument in the series. This ensures that all CX Series pianos possess a clear range of tonal colors and a nuanced, expressive sound.
Voicing and Regulation
The Expressive Power of the Yamaha C5X Grand Piano
Pianists achieve incredible expression on an acoustic piano like the Yamaha C5X grand, leveraging just 10mm of key travel and pedal work to create a dynamic range far beyond digital capabilities. This rich tonal palette is a direct result of Yamaha’s dedication to meticulous voicing and regulation.
For the C5X, this means skilled craftsmen carefully adjust the hammers, ensuring a balanced, responsive tone that translates every nuance of the pianist’s touch to the strings. The precise regulation of the action further refines this connection, allowing the C5X to offer a clear sound with sparkling tone and transparent harmonies. This human-led precision in crafting, developed over decades and inheriting innovations from the flagship CFX concert grand, is why the C5X stands as a top-tier instrument, transforming any space into a concert hall.
The Yamaha C5X Grand Piano: Refined Design & Playability
The Yamaha C5X grand piano, a 6’7″ Semi Concert Grand from the CX Series, boasts a new, elegant design directly influenced by the CF Series concert grand. Its clean, unornamented lines highlight the piano’s characteristic legs. This functional design extends to a robust pedal box, enabling powerful expression and fostering a deeper connection between pianist and instrument. To ensure superior playability, the C5X features Ivorite™ white keys, offering a feel and absorbency akin to natural ivory, alongside genuine ebony for the black keys (yamaha c5x-c7x).
3 Position Lid Prop
– The CX Series is equipped with a lid prop stopper to prevent your fingers from being caught when the piano lid closes unexpectedly. – The fallboard is fitted with a soft landing mechanism that means you no longer have to worry about the fallboard shutting on your fingers unexpectedly
Yamaha C5X: Projection Perfected
The Yamaha C5X grand piano (6’7″) features a uniquely crowned soundboard, vital for powerful sound projection—much like a violin’s curves. Yamaha applies decades of expertise and the same specialized gluing techniques as their flagship CFX concert grand to ensure the C5X’s soundboard vibrates with remarkable ease. This blend of traditional craftsmanship and advanced engineering gives the C5X dramatically improved projection and the exceptional responsiveness pianists demand.
Grand Bracing
The back frame is vital to a piano’s rich tone, acting as its structural backbone to absorb the immense force from powerful playing. Without it, energy is lost. Yamaha’s CX Series pianos, like the 6’7″ C5X grand, significantly reinforce this frame. For instance, the C5X’s back frame is roughly 20% thicker, providing superior stability. This design improvement ensures a pianist’s energy transforms into deep, resonant sound, giving the C5X its powerful tone.
Quick Over View
- Exceptional Sound Projection: Features a specially engineered soundboard “crown” and advanced gluing techniques, similar to the flagship CFX, for powerful sound projection.
- Refined Touch & Playability: Boasts white keys made of Ivorite™ (mimicking natural ivory) and genuine ebony black keys for a highly responsive and comfortable playing experience.
- Elegant, Functional Design: Its revamped aesthetic, inspired by the CF Series, emphasizes clean lines and a solid pedal box for a seamless connection between pianist and instrument.
- Optimized Key Travel: Provides the standard 10mm key travel, allowing pianists to achieve a vast dynamic and expressive range.
- Precision Craftsmanship: Benefits from Yamaha’s meticulous voicing and regulation processes, performed by skilled artisans to ensure every nuance of the pianist’s touch is conveyed.
- Concert Grand Pedigree: Inherits design philosophies and construction techniques from Yamaha’s CFX full concert grand, offering near-concert hall quality in a 6’7″ instrument.
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