Yamaha P155 Contemporary Piano with Mahogany Top Board, Black
- 88-note, GHE (Graded Hammer Effect) weighted-action keyboard
- 128-note polyphony
- Dynamic Stereo Sampling – 4 separate layers of stereo samples
- Key-Off Sample plus Sustain Sample for acoustic piano realism
- Emulates the soft/half pedaling and damper effects of an acoustic
Yamaha P155 Contemporary Piano with Mahogany Top Board, Black
Product Description
Whether you’re practicing at home, playing with the band, or doing a live solo performance, the P155 series offers professional quality sound with our legendary touch. Thanks to top-shelf Yamaha digital piano technologi… More >>
Average Rating: 5.0
digital piano
May 29th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
After a year owning the Yamaha YPG 235 (still love it), I decided to move up to something more substantial, with weighted keys. My first gut reaction was a Kawai or Yamaha Clarinova, but the cost was a bit high, and I didn’t like the fact that it was not portable. I wanted the features without the cost (typical consumer). So I looked at the P155.
This keyboard comes with 4-level AWS sampling, 128 polyphonic and GH effect (Yamaha’s best) weighted hammers. The features are in line with mid-level Clarinovas. Yamaha did a great job reproducing there top of the line grand piano, trouncing the YPG-235 and the YPG-635. There are subtle sound effects from a real piano reproduced, making the whole experience very realistic.
The keys are extremely accurate, but somewhat heavy. The change over from the graded-tough YPG 235 to a super weighted keyboard took about 5 days. The advantage is being able to play on a real piano without the fatigue, now that the muscle in my hands have bulked up.
This machine has real MIDI ports, 12 Watt speakers, 1/4″ plug connectors for an amp, and up to (2) headphones. It has a USB port for storing songs onto ONLY. You cannot use this port for anything but storage (like a USB pen drive). The unit will format your “drive” to Windows FAT, but it is writable-readable on MAC/LInux . You will need a MIDI to USB adapter if you want to play on your computer.
Overall, I feel (as a novice still) that I took the right course, buying the YPG-235 and now the P-155. The P-155 is truly a mid-level professional stage piano, at a very fair price. The quantity of samples (instruments) is not as much as the YPG-235, but the trade-off is a really superior instrument.
Made in Japan. (Ok, Made in USA would be better….but it’s a Japanese piano company)
May 29th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
OK, this is our first DP, so we are not experts… Having said that, I tested the hammer action and compared to real acoustic pianos and find the P-155 is quite realistic, even on the heavy side (which I think is good, gives you good strength if you ever decide do go up to a real grand piano!). The sounds it produces are very good (at least the “piano 1″, we only goofed with the others—but the others sound good too, the “chorus” sounds really nice playing Beethoven’s 9th!). The “piano 1″ sound is composed of 4 different samples (for the different sound levels) so it sounds very realistic at all levels of play, from pp to ff. We also like that you can wear headphones and not bother the family if you want to play late at night. Finally, the USB storage allows MIDI files to be recorded and/or brought from a computer to serve as a second pair of hands. The user interface is clean and relatively simple to use.
Overall I am very pleased and I do not think you can get this good quality at a lower price point.
BTW: this piano is made in Japan, always a good sign in terms of quality.