Yamaha H11 Main Features

H11 Owner’s Manual

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Main Features

Main Features

The instrument combines true piano sound in a modern, attractive cabinet that evokes the beauty of a

real acoustic grand piano–adding sophistication and musical expressiveness to your living space.

This type of keyboard features the feel of real ivory. The special Natural Wood keyboard also uses real-

wood white keys. The key surface is soft and slightly porous, giving the keys added grip and a natural

friction that lets you play easily. The authentic touch and feel of the keys goes far beyond existing elec-

tronic keyboards, it makes you feel as if you’re playing a real grand piano. This specially crafted key-

board lets you use techniques only possible on grand pianos, such as playing the same note successively

and having the sounds blend smoothly even without use of the damper pedal, or playing the same key

quickly and having perfect articulation without the sound cutting off unnaturally.

The H11 features an impressive moving keyboard—with the Moving Key function. Whatever songs

you play back on the instrument, including the included 50 piano preset songs (Classic & Jazz), songs

saved to USB ﬂash memory, or songs from the Internet using the streaming service, you can enjoy the

performance visually as well as aurally. This makes the H11 a wonderful instrument to have at home, as

well as an eye-catching, ear-catching instrument for a restaurant, store or any public space.

The H11 offers unmatched sonic realism as well as Yamaha’s original AWM Dynamic Stereo Sampling

tone-generation technology for rich, authentic voices. The GRAND PIANO 1 and 2 voices are com-

pletely constructed from samples painstakingly recorded from a full concert grand piano. The Grand

Piano 1 voice features three velocity-switched samples (Dynamic Sampling), special “Sustain Sam-

pling” that samples the unique resonance of an acoustic grand piano’s soundboard and strings when

the damper pedal is pressed, and “Keyoff Samples” that add the subtle sound produced when the keys

are released. These sophisticated features and advanced technologies ensure that the instrument

sounds and plays virtually the same as an actual acoustic piano.

Yamaha provides a special streaming service on its website that enables you to automatically play back

a wide variety of songs (song data) in various musical genres as background music directly on your

instrument.