Yamaha’s new and more affordable hybrid pianos
Yamaha NU1 hybrid piano
(Credit: Yamaha)
In 2009 I wrote about a new kind of piano, Yamaha’s $20,000 AvantGrand. It’s a hybrid (digital/acoustic) piano. Yamaha now offers a full line of hybrids, with prices starting at $5,499 for the recently released upright NU1 piano.
Hybrids feature the same mechanical piano “action” and natural wood keys used in Yamaha’s acoustic pianos, but the sound is generated from digital samples. The NU1 is no toy, it weighs 240 pounds and has a full standard piano keyboard. The NU1’s sound is derived from samples taken from Yamaha’s CFX concert grand acoustic…
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