YAMAHA YDP-163B Electric Piano

The best digital piano is one that can grow with a musician as they progress. When a pianist's skill level rises, they require a keyboard action built for more serious playing. The Arius YDP-163 features Graded Hammer 3 keyboard action with three sensors and synthetic ivory keytops, giving the performer a tactile surface with a response reminiscent of some of the finest pianos throughout history. The Pure CF Engine on the YDP-163 more expressively delivers the Yamaha CFIIIS concert grand piano tone for the more experienced player with a more powerful 20W stereo amplifier. With 192 note polyphony, many of the most complex piano compositions can be played without any dropped notes, and the sustained notes ring through faithfully. The YDP-163 has all of the conveniences of an electric piano without sacrificing the performance of an acoustic piano.

 Keyboard Type:

Very good sound quality for the small purse

The KX Series Upright Pianos offer incomparable value with Outstanding sound, touch and durability. At the heart of each KX Series piano is our exclusive Ultra-Responsive Action™ that combines experienced craftsmanship with Kawai's world renowned piano technology to provide exceptional touch and tone that will endure.
The KX Series Uprights are born of a rigorous research and intelligent design in pursuit of the ultimate in durability and performance. Meeting the demands of Today's discerning musicians, they continue Kawai's long tradition of high quality and musical excellence.

dimensions in cm (HxWxD)     110 x 146 x 54
weight in kg     178
area of the soundboard     1,26 m²
surfaces     black polished

The LP-380 provides brilliant piano sound in a low-profile, slim design. The flat-top cabinet looks stylish even when the key cover is closed. The high-output amplifier and speakers accurately reproduce a realistic piano sound, while Korg's flagship RH3 keybed enables expressive performances.
Features:- Compact digital piano with 88 weighted hammer action keys
- 30 acoustic and electric piano sounds to choose from
- 9 different temperaments for period-specific performances
- Rich, dynamic acoustic piano sounds borrowed from the Korg Kronos
- RH3 (Real Weighted Hammer Action 3) keyboard for expressive performances
- High-output amp section and 2 large-diameter 10 cm speakers let you play as loud as you want
- Three-pedal design with half-damper support for realistic playing
- Line Out jack, built-in metronome, and MIDI capability
- Slim and stylish design -- only 10-1/4 inches (26 cm) in depth
- Reduced chassis, package size, and weight make it easy to move and situate in any room

The LP-380 provides brilliant piano sound in a low-profile, slim design. The flat-top cabinet looks stylish even when the key cover is closed. The high-output amplifier and speakers accurately reproduce a realistic piano sound, while Korg's flagship RH3 keybed enables expressive performances.
Features:- Compact digital piano with 88 weighted hammer action keys
- 30 acoustic and electric piano sounds to choose from
- 9 different temperaments for period-specific performances
- Rich, dynamic acoustic piano sounds borrowed from the Korg Kronos
- RH3 (Real Weighted Hammer Action 3) keyboard for expressive performances
- High-output amp section and 2 large-diameter 10 cm speakers let you play as loud as you want
- Three-pedal design with half-damper support for realistic playing
- Line Out jack, built-in metronome, and MIDI capability
- Slim and stylish design -- only 10-1/4 inches (26 cm) in depth
- Reduced chassis, package size, and weight make it easy to move and situate in any room

The 48” K-3 offers an incomparable combination of tone, touch and value that has made it one of our most popular professional uprights.  Selected as the 2008 and 2009 "Acoustic Piano of the Year” by the readers of MMR Magazine, the K-3 provides a clear, rich tonal quality and an extraordinary consistency of touch made possible by our exclusive Millennium III Upright Action.  Experience the K-3 and understand why it is one of the best-selling upright pianos available today.
        Main Features

    * Millennium III Action™ with Carbon Fiber
    * Ultra-Slow Fallboard Closing System
    * Brass Front Casters (Double)
    * Height Adjustable Bench

Action     Millenium III
Key     white: acrylic, black: phenol, non-lead key weight adjust
Fallboard     "Soft Fall" Fallboard
Hardfinish     no
Tone spreader     no
Back post     4
Sound rib     11
Agraffe     no
Duplex scale     no
Caster typ     double
Lock     no
Size in cm (HxWxD)     122 x 151 x 59
Weight in kg     200
Finish     Black

A digital piano designed in an authentic Young Chang console-style piano cabinet, the Mark 12i is our flagship ensemble model. Features include sustain, sostenuto and soft pedals, a Boston-style fallboard, and an 88-note weighted keyboard with three degree tilt, just like the finest concert grand pianos. Its comfortable and supportive grand piano bench opens for additional storage. This unique instrument is available in a wide variety of finishes to complement any lifestyle or decor.

Many New Sounds and Styles
The Mark 12i includes 325 unequaled sampled sounds that continue the Kurzweil tradition of the finest sound quality in the industry. The Mark 12 features a superb Concert Grand Piano; new French Horns; snare drum with brushes; harmon-muted trumpet; arpeggiated or solo harp; pizzicato strings; banjo; nylon string guitar and hundreds more sounds on which the best composers and arrangers in the music business rely.

In addition, the Mark 12i offers 64 user-editable auto-accompaniment styles. We hired some of the best arrangers working today to create the most realistic sounding styles on ANY digital instrument. These styles are undoubtedly the finest Kurzweil has ever produced. We've made it so easy to use that Mark 12i owners can even create their own styles.

Unique, Exciting Features
The Mark 12's display provides easy-to-read, "no jargon" text, with intuitive menu choices. Its a snap to use everything the Mark 12 offers. With the Mark 12, it's easy to find the sound you want. Simply push a button to get to your favorite instrument, or press the "menu select" button for a list of sounds related to the category you've chosen. And with the Mark 12's disk drive, you don't have to wait while a song loads from a disk - the Mark 12 can read a song directly from the disk and play it - like a CD player. And just like a CD player, you can play songs in order or randomly shuffle-play them. The Mark 12's innovative Edu-Games feature encourages everyone to have fun by sharpening their skills while learning important musical concepts. Edu-Games include harmonic, melodic and rhythmic ear training games. There is also a scale tester and chord dictionary which helps you learn your scales and chords. This is a $400 additional software package not available anywhere else. We built it into the Mark 12!

Now Anyone Can Play the Mark 12i
This exclusive feature means exactly what it says: ANYONE can play. The Mark 12i makes every note sound right. Use Anyone Can Play with auto-accompaniments; or Kurzweil's Interactive Music Disk Collection. With Anyone Can Play, even a non-musician can get full enjoyment from the Mark 12i.

The Mark 12i features an easy to use 16-track recorder/sequencer. The Mark 12i's Flash ROM insures against system obsolescence. As Kurzweil develops new and better software, Flash ROM offers you permanent system upgrades- AND THEY'RE FREE.

Unique Programmable Drawbar Organ
The Mark 12i's Drawbar Organ feature enables you to program and save your own custom organ registrations. Unlike other instruments which limit you to a fixed number of organ presets, the Mark 12i's organ is limitless.

Beautiful Real Wood Finishes
If you are a church musician or jazz player, this is the digital ensemble instrument for you. Like the highly successful Mark 10, the Mark 12i is available in a variety of Real Wood Finishes to complement any decor. The cabinet and audio system have been custom co-designed with world-renowned Boston Acoustics to provide the finest sounding digital ensemble you have ever heard.

The Head of Our Mark Series Family
As the Flagship of Kurzweil's Mark Ensemble Series and in keeping with our desire to present a continuous line of quality digital instruments, all sequences, song disks, style disk and SoundByte libraries created for or on the Mark 10, Mark 150, and Mark 150 Plus will work perfectly on the Mark 12i.

An Outstanding Audio System
Both Kurzweil and our Mark Series have a long-standing reputation for superb audio quality. In the Mark 12i, our dedication to perfection is taken to its greatest extent, with the combination of our acclaimed sounds and our most sophisticated audio system. The Mark 12i literally fills the room with rich, beautiful, instrumental sounds.

The audio system features 4 independent amplifiers and speakers, custom-designed to emulate a real acoustic grand piano - with the lid open or closed - so effectively that it is almost impossible for listeners to believe that they are not hearing an acoustic instrument.

The Mark 12i also features transposition and tuning functions; continuous volume, bass and treble controls; and two headphone jacks.

Keyboard: 88-note 2 piece, fully weighted action
Polyphony: 32 voice
Multitimbral: 16 channel
Preset Programs: 325 Selectable Sounds, includes: 21 pianos (acoustic, rock, and ragtime), 10 electric pianos, 3 harpsichords, 9 pipe organs, 10 jazz and rock organs, 3 clavichords, 2 celeste, 16 basses (acoustic, electric, and synth), 9 acoustic guitars, 3 banjos, 16 jazz and rock guitars, 20 string sections, 8 choirs, 2 solo violins, viola, 2 cellos, contrabass, 12 flutes, 4 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 2 oboes, english horn, 5 trumpets, 2 trombones, 2 french horns, 2 tubas, 11 brass sections, soprano sax, 2 alto saxes, 2 tenor saxes, 2 baritone saxes, 4 vibraphones, 3 marimbas, 6 other mallet instruments, accordion, harmonica, bells, plus a wide variety of ethic/world instruments, synth brass, ensembles, orchestral ensembles, pads, leads, synth effects, and sound effects. Additionally, over 100 jazz, rock, and latin percussion instruments are accessible in 22 selectable keyboard arrangements. 
General MIDI: Yes
Layering: Any 2 sounds may be layered and their relative volumes adjusted.
Splits: Any sound (incl. layers) can be split with one of 4 basses (acoustic, electric, and synth), plus two "custom" (user-definable) sounds. 
Split Point: User selectable.
Transpose: Full transposition to any key; Independent octave transposition of each side of split over a +/- 5 octave range. 
Tune: Adjust +/- 50 cents
Effects: 880 Reverb and Effects Combinations:
Reverb: 19 different settings - Room, Stage, Hall, and Space, with 4-5 variations of each type.
Effects: 43 different settings - Chorus, Rotary, Echo, and Special, with 7-14 variations of each type 
Auto-Accompaniment: 64 built-in, preset musical styles. Up to 7 additional new styles can be loaded from disk.
Style Categories: Big Band, Jazz, Classical, Show Tunes, Gospel/World, March/Polka, Latin, Country, Rock/R&B, Pop, Dance, and Special. Each category offers 3 or more choices 
Style Parts: Introduction, Basic, variation, Fills, and Ending for each style.

Style Mixer: Independent volume and mute controls for accompaniment (drums, bass, and three accompaniment parts). 
Chord Recognition: Basic, Advanced, Chord Inversion, and Full Keyboard recognition modes, plus chord hold feature. Anyone Can Play Mode - allows you to play any note on the keyboard and have it sound correctly in harmony with the chord you play in your left hand. Harmony feature - adds a full chord to every note you play in your right hand using the correct harmonies, based on the chord you play in your left hand. 
Arpeggiator: Auto-note generator takes chords you play on the keyboard and automatically turns them into arpeggios. Many different adjustable parameters allow you to specify what type of arpeggio is created. 
Drawbar Organ Mode: This special software simulation of a Drawbar organ allows you to program and save your own organ settings. Features all the standard settings found on a typical Drawbar organ, including 9 different partials, percussion, and keyclick. 
Recorder/Sequencer: 16 songs, 16 tracks per song (includes dedicated auto-accompaniment track for recording styles).
Recorder Tools: Punch-In, Loop, Merge, and Quantize functions.
MIDI Sync: Internal/External MIDI Beat clock sync for hook up with other sequencers.
Song Compatibility: Can play Standard MIDI Files and can read and convert disks from Yamaha PianoSoft and Disk Orchestra Libraries, plus PianoDisc Music Library. 
Disk Drive: 1.4 meg floppy drive for loading and saving songs, styles, and sounds.
Standard MIDI files can be played directly off the disk via DiskPlay feature. 
Panel Memories: 90 quick user-storage memories for complete recall of all front panel settings.
Edu-Games: This special feature has several different interactive games that are both educational and fun to play. They are designed to help you develop basic musical skills 
Sound System: Built-in, premium 130 watt biamplified audio system jointly designed with Boston Acoustics:
(2x50 watts for 6.5" woofer; 2x15 watts for 1" tweeters) 
Audio Controls: Front panel volume, treble, and bass sliders.
Audio Outs: (2) line level RCA jacks 
Audio Ins: (2) line level RCA jacks (for connecting external sound sources) 
Headphones: (2) 1/4" stereo headphone outs 
MIDI I/O: MIDI In, Out and Thru jacks.
OS Updates: Flash ROM allows for updating of the Operating System via disk. Operating Systems can be downloaded at no charge. 
Pedals: (3) programmable switch-type: sustain, sostenuto, soft (defaults)
(1) programmable Continuous Controller (volume by default) 
Pitch Bend: (1) Ribbon strip
Finishes: Ebony, Mahogany Red, and Mahogany Brown Polish
Bench: Matching bench included.
Dimensions:  33.25“(H) x 56.50“(W) x 22.25“(D) 
Weight:  198.50 lbs