Product: Yamaha CLP-360
Price Paid: US $1850
Submitted
01/23/2005
at
02:05pm
by
cz9091
Ease of Use
:
10
This is very easy to use. The manual quickly lets you know how to shift the keyboard if you want to say play in the Key of F for a vocalist, but can only play the song in the piano Key of C. Rare to have a good manual.
Features
:
10
At the time it had decent features. A few sounds on board. But the Midi aspect is what makes it timeless. I port this sucker through an Alesis QSR and get 740 instruments over the 6 that are one it.
The ability to shift the key signature as I said above it awesome, even to split the keyboard and play as if 2 synthesizers. They put some thought into it.
Also the basic stuff of Pianoism. The touch sensativity and Piano and Sustain foot pedals are good, although the Piano pedal isn't a drastic difference.
Expressiveness/Sounds
:
10
I got this for the Piano. There is one that sounds like a Grand, and another that sounds like an upright. Since I can now hook it up to a QSR I've got more Piano and Organ sounds than I know what to do with and many are so realistic you wouldn't know the difference on a recording.
The reason I bought it was that I couldn't tell through the headphones that this wasn't a Grand piano, and the fact that I was recording with it makes NOT having 5 microphones set up worth the price of the unit alone.
AND the sound never goes out of tune. Save on the humidifier too!
Reliability
:
10
When I bought this, there was a 5 year warrenty. Yamaha went up to a 10 year a few years later. Don't know what they have now.
I bought this in 1990. spilled beer and coffee on the poor thing. A few keys became sticky and I had to try and clean them. Still work fine. (although coffee and beer CAN kill your keys. You'll need to rinse with water, or take apart and clean)
After 15 years NOT ONE PROBLEM. Nope. No complaints here. The best electronic device I ever bought. Probably the best I'll ever buy.
After this, you can throw out your baby and grand piano's. who needs that outdated junk anyways. (once you've recorded their sounds, hee hee)
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Never had to deal with them. Don't expect to.
If I had a problem with this unit, I'd sell my car and buy another. Worth every penny. Leave Customer Support for their other products customers.
Overall Rating
:
10
I'd buy it again and no one elses piano. Wouldn't even care to buy a wooden piano (notice I didn't say "real" as this IS a real piano)
Been playing on and off for about 20 years. Played grand pianos in college, even wrote a piano sonata (had someone critisize it as "bastardized Beethoven" as they thought that was what I was playing)
I love this piano's sound, ability to be upgradeable cause of the Midi, the fact that I can POUND and POUND it and it still works.
I compared this to Grand Pianos and was really going to buy a Baby Grand when my brother asked me to "check this out" and "keep an open mind". I did, and am glad I did. Instead of 5k I only dropped 2K, it's more transportable, never needs humidity checks, never needs tuning or new strings. Save a fortune.
I record a lot with it. Doesn't take up too much space. It weights about 100lbs, so I think they could come down on the weight with a new one these days, but you expect this to weight by it's very thought in your head. Hey, It's a PIANO. They're heavy.
Last thing, IF you can get one used, don't hesitate. Play it, make sure it's not broke. If it isn't, it'll last you.
Good luck.
