Yamaha GC1 TA2 Baby Grand

In the 1970s, Yamaha really made its mark on the North American piano market with their G & C grand pianos. Compared to their American and European counterparts, these pianos were a tremendous value. In addition to their adoption by savvy players, they started making their way into music institutions, schools, churches, and private teaching studios.

Yamaha continued to develop and improve these two lines, branching them out into what is now the CX and GC models.

The GC line has retained more of the features of the highly successful original C series. The company has been able to keep production costs under control to make this, in our opinion, Yamaha’s best combination of price/performance.

But there is more…

This is from Yamaha’s Silent-TransAcoustic Series — an acoustic hybrid piano. It gives the player both a high-quality acoustic piano and the additional features of a modern digital piano, in a single instrument.

When needed, you can play/practice in complete privacy using the built-in digital piano tone module. When you activate the SILENT Piano feature, the hammers are prevented from hitting the strings and optical sensors take over, sending your key movements to the digital piano which you can hear through headphones. When playing silently, you still have the benefit and pleasure of playing the real mechanical acoustic action — not a digital facsimile.

In addition to being equipped with “Silent” technology, Yamaha has made this “TransAcoustic” by adding two electro-magnetic transducers that convert the piano’s soundboard into a mechanical speaker!

The player can now either play silently with earphones, or layer in the various digital piano voices and hear them emanating from the soundboard itself — with or without the real acoustic sound.

The purchase includes:

– Matching bench
– Five-year parts & labor warranty on acoustic piano, two-year on electronics
– In-home tuning
– Our 100% lifetime trade-up option