NEW DEMONSTRATION DISK BRINGS "VOCAL HARMONY" FEATURE TO LIFE ON CLAVINOVA CVP-200 SERIES DIGITAL PIANOS

—Dealer Tool Highlights Key New Features For Stunning Showroom Presentations—

Demo Disk Boasts Vocal Harmony for Stunning Showroom Presentations

BUENA PARK, CA (August 30, 2002)—BUENA PARK, CA—Yamaha authorized retailers have a new resource designed to strengthen showroom demonstrations of the CVP-200 Series of Clavinova Digital Pianos. The "Vocal Harmony Demonstration Disk," provided to dealers free of charge, uses automatic settings and carefully chosen musical selections to show off the pianos’ remarkable Vocal Harmony, Karao-Key, Vocal CueTIME and Total Pitch Correction capabilities for prospective buyers.

Vocal Harmony is a feature that takes a singer’s microphone input and reproduces it as three separate vocal performances in perfect harmony. Karao-Key lets users control the timing of the piano’s accompaniment by pressing any key on the instrument to mark each syllable as they sing, while Vocal CueTIME automates that process by recognizing the correct vocal pitch and synchronizing the accompaniment to match. The amazing Total Pitch Correction feature takes singing in any pitch—even a deliberate monotone—and reproduces it so that each note comes out in the correct pitch.

The musical selections on the disk are familiar songs, rich with passages that make use of the CVP-200 Series vocal capabilities. The tunes include "Lean on Me," "Can’t Help Falling in Love," "Love Me Tender," "Red River Valley," "Witch Doctor," "Disco Feel," "Tomorrow," "Popeye the Sailor Man," "God Bless America" and The Chipmunks’ "Christmas/Don’t Be Late." No matter how they actually sing, sales prospects will be able to hear the Clavinova make them sound like Popeye, an opera star—even a "Chipmunk." "This disk cuts right to the chase, right to the harmonies," explains Dane Madsen, Product Manager, Piano Division, Yamaha Corporation of America. "It brings up the right settings with a minimum of keystrokes, and includes tunes that make use of these features all the way through."

Precisely because of the wide variety of vocal processing features built into the CVP-207, CVP-209 and CVP-900 Clavinovas, the process of demonstrating them all in the showroom needed to be streamlined so that buyers could grasp them quickly, Madsen says. The demonstration disk answers that need, and Yamaha retailers should already have received them in the mail.

For more information about the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-200 Series digital pianos check out www.yamaha.com or call (714) 522-9011.

For more information about Yamaha Clavinova digital pianos, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622-6600; telephone (714) 522-9011; e-mail infostation@yamaha.com; or visit www.yamaha.com.