Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. There are nine pianos squeezed into the back of Yamaha’s music salon in the old Aeolian Building in ...

I just picked up a Yamaha AvantGrand N2, which if you pay any attention to the electronic music biz, you might recognize as the upright piano version of Yamaha’s newest hybrid piano series. They’re ...

High end digital pianos sound great, and have come a long way over the years, but ask any professional musician and they’ll tell you they just don’t feel the same as a traditional baby grand. So ...

A little over a year ago, I wrote about a piece of high-end musical gear made by Yamaha called an AvantGrand. It’s what Yamaha refers to as a hybrid piano, which just means that the intricate key ...

February 27, 2009 Yamaha’s new Avant Grand digital piano fuses twenty-first century technology with Yamaha’s more than a century of piano-crafting experience. The result is a digital piano that mimics ...

"Yamaha already had a reputation as a progressive company," said Hart, whose store is the only AvantGrand dealer between Denver and Salt Lake City. The AvantGrand has an earphone jack and a volume ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Yamaha's forthcoming "hybrid" Avant Grand may not set you back quite as far as, say, a Hamburg Steinway Model D-274, but it still ain't priced for amateur budgets. The piece was engineered to be ...