Yamaha applied 100 years' experience in crafting acoustic pianos to bring you the CVP Series, which, like all Clavinovas are, first and foremost, pianos. For unrivalled sonic realism there's Yamaha's proprietary Dynamic Stereo Sampling AWM tone generation. As a further step towards providing the ultimate piano sound, CVP Series models also feature stereo samples of a specially selected Yamaha CFIIIS concert grand. Plus the GH (Graded Hammer effect) for incredibly natural touch response. But that's not all. The new extra-large LCD makes operation incredibly easy and offers a score display for more performance versatility and learning support than ever. Which adds up to more musical pleasure for the whole family. All from beautiful, naturally finished instruments that are at home in any modern interior.

The CVP-207's large colour LCD display provides attractive graphics and helpful messages for quick access and error-free operation every time. Display indications include music scores and lyrics for expanded performance versatility as well as karaoke fun. And you can enjoy playing while a scene of your choice is displayed, which can even be a picture you took with a digital camera.

For a new level of performance versatility, Yamaha offers a huge selection of over 800 voices. Besides incredibly realistic Piano voices and XG voices, these include new Sweet, Live, Cool and Natural voices. With Sweet voices, you can enjoy delicate nuances such as the vibrato of wind and brass instruments. Live voices provide stereo samples that capture the unique characteristics of acoustic instruments. In the same way, Cool voices reproduce the subtlest shades of the original sound of electric instruments. Created with the latest technologies, Natural voices use a huge amount of memory to assure incredibly faithful reproduction of instrument sounds. The CVP-207 lets you create original organ sounds with the Organ Flutes voices. Playing the Voice demo lets you hear exactly what amazing voices you have to choose from.

You get a choice of built-in Normal, Session, Pianist and Piano Combo accompaniment styles covering virtually any musical genre. What's more, each style has three intros and endings, four variations, four fill-ins and one break. Using these accompaniment styles lets everybody, even beginners, give accomplished solo performances. Music Finder offers an extensive range of music styles with pre-programmed voices and effects setups. You can search for suitable styles by music, style, genre, keyword, tempo and beat. Whatever your selected style, Music Finder lets you enjoy the most suitable instruments and effects, all carefully chosen by professional musicians.

Use your Internet connection to take advantage of a virtually limitless selection of the most up to date music software and accessories to enhance your Clavinova experience. The great new yamahamusicsoft.com site has something for everyone, whether playing, listening, or singing along. Custom-designed song software for your Clavinova gives you a wide range of professionally programmed backing tracks and songbooks for you to play along with, including all styles of music and a wide array of popular songs. 8008 LNK Style Disks provide an authentic sounding rhythm section to accompany your playing in various styles, and for budding composers, there's Xgworks and other 8009 LNK PC Music applications including compositional tools and tutorials which allow you to enhance your learning experience, creative and make use of the connect ability between the Clavinova and the PC. Most exciting of all, Yamaha has entered into agreements with the world's major music publishers and digital sheet music developers to give you direct access to a massive catalogue of digital score data, ready to download and be displayed right on the Clavinova LCD screen (CVP-207/209 only). So whatever your needs, a bigger world of music is waiting for you now. 8006 LNK Yamaha MusicSoft.com

The convenient Follow Lights function provides guide lamps over the keyboard light to show you which notes to play. When enjoying karaoke, you can also take advantage of Karao-Key. This lets you control the timing and tempo of the karaoke accompaniment to match your singing simply by hitting any key on the keyboard. Or you can use Vocal CueTIME to start the accompaniment music as soon as you sing in the correct pitch.

Pressing a button is all it takes to find out what a CVP Clavinova has to offer. Once you read and hear the Voice, Style and Function demos, you'll want to sit down and start playing yourself. And don't worry about complex operations – there's also a handy Help function offering detailed explanations when required.

The CVP-207 offers a choice of 120 built-in "Song Book" songs, with accompaniments, covering a wide range of musical genres. You can also enjoy display in the LCD of the scores of all the songs, and with some songs the lyrics, too.

In addition to a superb musical instrument, CVP Clavinovas give you a 16-track digital recording studio. You can create complex performances one track at a time, using any of the voices available. Better still, you can also perform step recording, entering notes one at a time. Once you've finished recording, you can save your efforts to the internal flash ROM or a floppy disk.

This allows you to store complete instrument setups for instant recall whenever you need them. All it takes is the touch of a button to completely change the entire sound of an instrument, a handy feature for live performances. You can store your setups in the internal flash ROM or on a floppy disk.

For even more flexibility, you can assign any of the available functions, such as Sostenuto and pitchbend, to a pedal of your choice. You can also customize the CVP-207 by specifying how far down the damper pedal has to be pushed until the damper effect starts working. This lets you achieve the optimum degree of pedal sensitivity for your playing style.