Yamaha P-115 acoustic test | Jazz | Classics

Quick acoustic (built-in speakers) test of the Yamaha P-115 black (P-115b) digital piano as first-person-view video - which means you can see and hear excactly what I see and hear as player. Played by Bernhard Mächler.

Head-Camera:
GoPro Hero 8 with Media Mod mounted on a GoPro Headstrap

Microphone:
Soundman OKM II professional binaural mics which I wear in my ears

The Yamaha P-115 is an awesome digital piano which to my personal taste sounds and feels like a real piano. And it even is extremely leightweight and affordable.

The Yamaha p-115 in fact is the first digital piano which I'm completely happy with and fits my personal needs and taste regarding sound and playing feel.

In the past I used a Roland FP-8 and then later on a Yamaha P-80. I also regularly played on a real upright piano and also on a full-fledged Steinway grand piano available at my former school. So I'm quite picky concerning feel and mechanics. The Yamaha P-115 gives me the needed full range of dynamics and key response to be able to play Jazz and also vertous Chopin stuff.

I also used to own a Yamaha CP-80 electric grand and a Kawai EP-308 electric grand which were fun and had their own typical sound but were very bulky and heavy and therefore I had to sell them at some point.

I never play with headphones since I want to have the real acoustic feel of a piano and therefore also am picky to how the built-in speakers perform.

The speakers in the P-115 sound great and natural - neither too bassy nor too middy. It sounds very natural and true to how a real piano sounds, but with the option for lower volume.

One of the great things is that at high volume the keys vibrate upon playing full bass notes similar to a real piano. This is not an extra function like in the Avant Grand, it's just caused by the physics.

Imho the P115 is a real masterpiece from Yamaha and a godsend for people like me who don't have a lot of space and hate heavy bulky stuff. I have no relation to Yamaha and receive no money from them - this is just a personal opinion as a customer and hobby piano player.

The trial pieces fragments include:
- Some free improvisation
- Michel Petrucciani Bite
- Chopin Fantasie Impromtu
- Chopin Prelude 8

I'll also upload some full pieces played on the Y P-115 in the future. So stay tuned.

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[jortepap]

I went from the P125 to this and the the P115 is MUCH better in terms of sound AND key action. Yamaha claims its the same on both pianos.. lol ITS NOT !!❌ they messed it up with the P125! Love the P115, own it for a year know. Bought it thanks to this video and reply👌thank you.

[guitman]

Sounds very natural! Do you think the newer P125 sounds as good?

[TheStreetFabulous]

Great playing. Could you tell me if you can connect it to a pc in order to play it with vst plugins ? I'm looking for a good digital piano that I can also use with my Native Instruments library. I assume all these keyboards have that feature nowadays but I'm not sure.

[EndlessPellegrino]

How's the action on this one compared to a grand piano? I'm a beginner in jazz piano so would you say this would put me on the right track when it comes to the keybed?

[jortepap]

Still love my P115.
Just went to a big piano store and almost all digital piano's I tried (also waay more expensive ones) felt worse than the P115 😂 even an expensive piano like the Nord Grand (Kawai key action) was not as good as the P115 action. There were some nice sounding digital piano's but a lot of the key actions were just shit. Really slow and strange feeling compared to a P115🤷‍♂️P115 keys have great weight and response imo.

[jortepap]

Even the Kawai ES920 key action didn't feel as good as the P115.