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Piano : Yamaha C3X-TA2

[HattoriHanzo]

That's trans-amazing, trans-fantastic and we expect you to to play many and many trans-insane difficult arrangements of yours!

[MarkBowenPiano]

Yamaha are absolutely amazing. Have always loved their pianos since the first time I played a Clavinova. Currently have the Yamaha CP1 Stage Piano and absolutely adore it. Great video Jacob.

[johnkovacharpsbydavyc]

This is a fantastic instrument! Quite exciting. I appreciate you reviewing it. The sound board transducer (along with Yamaha's sound sample engine) is a perfect innovation! (Cousin Davy here).

In the Pro-Sound industry, we used a system like that 15 years ago with a speaker transducer (4 inches round by about 3 inches tall) that would fasten to the bottom of a table or, etc. (most surfaces). The transducer would use the whole table (wood, especially) as its speaker "cone" & give great omni-directional sound without the bulk of a speaker, its cone and its box, etc.

We try to use Yamaha for all of our home theater applications, too. I run Yamaha in my own home theater. They are the best, IMO.

I hope you and your family are all doing well. Blessings

[linchingyung]

That’s really Awesome!! I played a Yamaha U1 TA2 few days ago at a piano centre in Hong Kong and it’s great as well, which is suitable for buying one and playing at home which is not spacious enough to accommodate a grand piano =) Definitely appreciate Yamaha this new modern technology 😆

[seracreations]

I'm sure that this new modern piano should be so happy being played by such a splendid pianist as you, Jacob !!

[ArgoBeats]

The Grand Piano many were waiting for! Thank you, Yamaha and Jacob!

[thomasgauthier]

This piano is just amazing, thanks to share with us this very cool instrument

[marquamfurniture]

Well explained and demonstrated. (Please, Jacob, use a voice mic when making comments.) Thanks!

[drewedwards]

Hey man, thanks for sharing. Quick follow up: how does the silent mode "feel" compared to when you play it in "raw acoustic" mode? I suppose there is a mechanism to prevent the hammer from striking the strings -- does this noticeably impact your perception of the action? I have a Kawai CA-78 (similar to Yamaha Clavinova) and am planning on buying an acoustic, but this seems like it might be the best of both worlds.

[kimzim]

Can you connect your other instruments like a synthesizer into the piano and play it from the piano's keyboard? I mean MIDI out from the piano to the synth and then audio out from the synth to audio in on the piano. So the synths sound plays through the transacoustic "soundboard-speaker". That would be great especially if there is no noticeable latency/delay which I suspect bluetooth audio can suffer from.

[MK-dgqj]

Wow great video! Can u send the acoustic sound as midi to a DAW? if ye, do u think that's a great thing?

[jahallen]

This is the first time I've heard him talk and for some reason I was expecting him to talk like the godfather😂

[B-S-K]

I got my C3X-TA2 9 months ago .... and I can really recommend it (tough the Transacoutic Feature doesn't sound as good as expected - in comparison to the real acoustic sound!)

[gs]

I'll take one, Jacob. Well done, Yamaha.
Vangelis would love this!:-)

[NativeWarrior]

Am I compromising on sound quality by getting the C1X TA3, which is a 5'3" baby grand over the 6'3" C3X TA2 and TA3?

[andrewcampbell-bluespianop]

What a beautiful instrument. If I could only play like you and had a spare 60k :)

[leochen]

Can the TransAcoustic technology be applied to Yamaha's larger grands such as their CF series, if so ordered?

[edwinov]

So you can adjust the volume of the digital sounds, but can you adjust the volume of the acoustic sound as well or is that merely on/off? How does switching the acoustic sound off work? Even in this video I still see the hammers hammering the strings.

[craolad]

At last sometime has properly explained how this piano works

[chicagobob]

This is the one I want but don't see it available -- the TransAcoustic is only available in a upright model unless I missed something