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Portable Grand

Yamaha Education Suite

The PortaTone also has a Portable Grand function for realistic piano performance. Pressing the
PORTABLE GRAND button instantly calls up the stunningly authentic “Stereo Sampled Piano” voice
and configures the entire PortaTone for optimum piano play. Special Piano styles — with piano-only
accompaniment — are also provided.

The PSR-248 is a sophisticated yet easy-to-use keyboard with the following fea-

tures and functions:

Main Features
The PortaTone features the new Yamaha Education Suite — a set of learning tools that utilize the latest
technology to make studying and practicing music more fun and fulfilling than ever before!
The Yamaha Education Suite includes:
Powerful Melody Guide functions in the Song mode — Waiting and Minus One — that let you
easily learn the 100 songs and even show you what notes to play!
• Waiting pauses song playback (like a patient teacher!), so you can practice at your own pace.
• Minus One mutes only the melody part, letting you play the part yourself. The expert
backing parts encourage you to play your best and make it easy to “feel” the song!
Chord Guide functions in the Style mode — Smart and Dictionary — that make it exceptionally
easy to learn chords and chord relationships.
• Smart lets you easily play harmonically “correct” chord progressions for whatever key you
specify. It’s great for learning — and performing!
• Dictionary is a built-in “chord encyclopedia” that teaches you how to play specific chords.
You type in the chord name, and the PortaTone shows you which notes to play!
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Other powerful features include:

• Exceptionally realistic and dynamic sounds with
100 voices, utilizing digital recordings of actual
instruments.
• Touch Response lets you dynamically and expres-
sively control the volume of the voices with your
playing strength — just as on an acoustic piano.
• 100 dynamic auto accompaniment Styles, each
with different Intro, Main A and B, and Ending
sections. All styles (except for the Piano styles) also
have their own four Fill-in patterns.
•
Large custom LCD gives you easy, at-a-glance confirma-
tion of all important settings, as well as chord and note
indications.
• 100 songs, for your listening enjoyment — or for
use with the sophisticated learning tools of the
Yamaha Education Suite.
•
Convenient control over accompaniment Styles —
including Tempo and independent Accompaniment
Volume.
• One Touch Setting (OTS), for automatically calling
up an appropriate voice for playing with the selected
Style.
• MIDI terminals for interfacing with other MIDI
devices. The PSR-248 also has a Sustain switch jack.
• Built-in, high-quality stereo amplifier/speaker
system.
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