Garbage Picking, A History

I’ve known a few people, mostly upper middle class people that have owned a Yamaha Clavinova that they hardly ever used. I guess it was a kind of status symbol to them.

This is part of the description of the Clavinova from the Wikipedia site:

The Clavinova is a long-running line of digital pianos created by the Yamaha Corporation. The name is a portmanteau of the two words Clavier meaning 'keyboard instrument" and nova meaning "new". It is similar in function to an acoustic piano but also includes many features common to various electronic keyboards, such as the ability to save/load songs and to play demo songs, including original Yamaha compositions, and the ability to play in a variety of voices. More recent models can be connected to a computer via USB or wireless network for music production or interactive piano lesson programs.

And here’s a few of the current models:

As you can see, they’re no cheapo instrument. They have a decent emulation of a Yamaha acoustic piano, which is their main claim to fame, as far as I’m concerned.

My CVP-50 has three sets of RCA jacks to output to other sound gear and 2 sets of midi jacks, too. So, for a late ‘80s piece of kit, it’s got a decent set of outputs. No USB, it hadn’t been invented back then.