MAKE YAMAHA'S "SINGING" PIANO
THE CENTERPIECE OF YOUR HOLIDAY CELEBRATION

BUENA PARK, CA (December 27, 2002)—What would your holidays be like if you had a piano "singing" seasonal favorites and playing itself right in your home? The Yamaha Disklavier Mark III can make it come true.

Yamaha Mark III Series Disklaviers, like the DC7A 7'6" grand pictured here, spice up the holidays like no other gift—and add fun and value to your home all year long.

Every model in the Mark III Series is a concert-quality acoustic piano, but that's just the beginning. Thanks to Disklavier recording and playback technology, an on-board audio system and other extras, it's also the ultimate home-entertainment machine.

Using Yamaha PianoSoft™ PlusAudio software and Yamaha's first built-in CD player, the Disklavier synchronizes recorded vocals and instrumentals with its own live piano performance, bringing to life holiday classics such as Deck the Halls and Winter Wonderland—along with tunes from Frank Sinatra, Christopher Cross and other year-round favorites—while the keys move up and down right in front of your eyes.

The Mark III also helps beginning musicians get into the spirit with the SmartKey system, which leads users through a tune by actually "wiggling" the next key to be played. It's ideal for those who have always wanted to play the piano but haven't learned yet.

The same 60W x 2 audio system that lets Disklavier owners hear other instruments and voices also makes possible the instrument's Quiet Mode. When the volume is turned down past a certain level, the instrument switches from live piano play to digitally sampled piano through the on-board speakers, so the high-quality sampled piano sound can suit any atmosphere.

Disklavier owners can record their own piano performances for later playback, and a vast library of PianoSoft titles offers pre-recorded music for virtually every taste. The Mark III Series even includes Yamaha's PianoSmart technology, which uses special Smart PianoSoft floppy disks that let the Disklavier play along with many of the standard audio CDs users already own.

With a new twist on old technology, the Yamaha Disklavier Mark III makes learning how to play the piano fun and easy, and also provides an entire evening of "live" holiday entertainment, simply by pressing a button.

For more information on the Disklavier Mark III series pianos, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622-6600; email infostation@yamaha.com; call (714) 522-9011; or visit the web site http://www.yamaha.com.