The Very Best Choice For Professionals

Yamaha CLP340 - Dark Rosewood (See Below For Other Colours)

 (Covers UK and Europe)

Price: £1,523.23 (includes FREE delivery + 3 year warranty!)

Availability: In Stock. Delivery 3-4 days.

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"Graham Howard,
Piano Advisor"

Have you seen the CLP340 bundle offer?

See below for CLP340 mahogany, polished ebony, and cherry.

You get:

 30 day money back guarantee (If you're not happy with your piano, you have up to 30 days to return it for a full refund).

 3 year UK and European warranty (Any faults will be repaired in your home or the piano collected and replaced. Read more...)

 Free delivery (Includes UK, Ireland and most European countries).

 * Adjustable rosewood piano stool (With a wide range of adjustment - up or down - allowing you to sit comfortably, and at the correct height. This is essential for developing the right technique, especially if you're a beginner).

 * Digital piano headphones (Covers the whole ear and blocks out external noise. They are superb!

  - Free Music Book - (50 Greats For The Piano)

* items only included in the CLP340 bundle offer.

Please note: prices are subject to change. You can check out Thomann's latest deal on the Yamaha CLP340 here

What Our Customers Say...

The CLP340 also has:

GH3 action with synthetic with ivory keytops
128 note polyphony
New 4-level DSS piano sample
28 voices with dual and split
Damper resonance
USB to DEVICE
2-track recorder
Internet Direct Connection (IDC) with LAN port
2 x 40 watt amplification

Dimensions

1408 x 917 (with music rest 1018) x 514 mm (w x d x h) 

Weight

69 kgs

Choice of Finishes

Choose from dark rosewood, cherry, or mahogany

Delivery

Free delivery to UK, Ireland and most European Countries.

Assembly

The piano comes flat-packed and is easy to assemble (instructions in English provided). The electronics and keyboard are fixed in - all you have to do is assemble the base.

There are four screws that fix the base to the keyboard, four to fix the base together and a few smaller screws to fit the back board. The screw holes are already made and no gluing is required. Even the screw driver is provided!

I do advise two people to do the job though - purely because of the keyboard's weight - It is heavy and safer to have a helping hand when lifting it on to the base.

Please note: Prices are subject to change. Check out Thomann's latest deal on the Yamaha CLP340 here.

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Reviews

"Here's the 10 reasons I bought the Yamaha CLP340"

1. Brand name. (Includes better selling potential the piano in the future)

2. The sound of the Yamaha, not too bright and not too dull. I was not able
to listen to listen to the less known pianos as some are not even sold in
the Netherlands. Though a sound sample is provided for most instruments, a
MP3 file does not really do justice to the sound...

3. The touch. I am in the lucky position to have a grand piano (Steinway &
Sons) at hand. The Yamaha mimics it the best, in my opinion, except for
the escapement found on the Steinway, it really feels the same, again in my
humble opinion.

4. The ivory keys. I dislike the bright white shiny plastic keys on most
instruments. Though this is not a must, it certainly was worth some extra
euros. But to be frank: if I didn't have that extra, I would've go for a
piano with the normal plastic keys.

5. Ecstatically I found the Yamaha the prettiest to see. Most piano's do
not have a complete backboard. Yamaha does and it really looks better than a
partly closed backside of the piano.

6. Earlier experiences with the Yamaha brand. I've owned a Yamaha product
some 15 year ago and was always impressed with the quality of the
instrument. The 69 kilogram of instrument isn't in the manuals but are found
in the wooden legs, back plate, keys and top cabinet. It is crafted
beautifully and a feast for the eye!

7. Technical possibilities. The split function is a nice touch, but again
not a must. Various settings like bright/medium/mellow various settings for
reverb and so give you a the possibility to 'fiddle' around with the final
sound of the piano. Not a must, must certainly nice to have. Although
(again!) not really a must for an electrical / digital piano, the option you
have, like left/right hand practice and so on are really a bonus.

8. Connection possibilities. Up- and download, USB stick, connection to a PC
(sadly enough I have an Apple iMac and Yamaha seems to ignore everything
that comes with an Apple logo on it). Download study material from the
Internet: it's all there and I am really using it! Tons of different music
pieces, including score can be downloaded from a special site. And hey, I am
a computer user from the start of the PC in the eighties so that really
appealed to me!! 

Not everybody has the means or possibility to use a direct cable connection
(UTP) and wants to use a wireless lan (WLAN) connection. What I really was
surprised of learning, is the method Yamaha uses to (wireless) connect the
piano to the Internet. Nowadays almost everybody has a wireless network at home.

To setup a safe WLAN, you should encrypt the data stream and protect it with a
(secret) key. Usually this is done with a WPA or WPA2 encryption. In the old days
a WEP encryption was sufficient. Sadly enough, WEP encryption can be broken within
5 minutes (sic!). So, an encryption that you DON'T want the use is a WEP.

Yamaha offers only a WEP encryption and that I find amazing. For a modern company
like Yamaha this is really, really stupid. So do what I did: buy yourself a LinkSys
Wireless Ethernet Bridge, connect that sucker to the UTP connection on the piano with
an UTP cable, set it up for WPA2 (the CLP340 won¹t know a thing!) and start
downloading study material an other fun stuff in a protected environment.

9. Sound. Since I was interested in an digital piano, I was not looking for
an instrument that could produce sounds like a locomotive, chirping birds,
oboe, distorted guitars or analog saw tooth and square oscillators. I would
have been happy to purchase a device that just gave me a grand piano,
upright piano, Fender Rhodes, honky-tonk and harpsichord. Well, Yamaha gave
me 16 different sound of which I¹m probably not using ten.

10. Graham Howard's information on a lot of different digital pianos and
their manufacturers. This really helped me narrowing down the selection.
It's  understandable (for an not-native-English speaking person), very
instructional and fun to read. The top ten lists come in really handy, but
even so important is how top ten list was made. For example: it prevented
me from buying a solid wood key type for perfectly understandable reasons.

The only minor I've found is the metronome. I used to have mechanical
metronome that I could setup for any beat, 4/4, 12/8, 3/4 and so on. You'd
always heard what beat it was: walz: O oo   O oo or 4/4: O 000  O 000  O 000
and so one. The metronome on the CLP just ticks...

Matthew van Os
the Netherlands

Read more CLP340 reviews

Useful Resources

1) Click here to read the report: "Which Digital Piano To Buy" by piano advisor, Graham Howard

2) Check out the 'ever expanding' piano questions section on this site.

3)  The world's first and only dedicated digital piano forum. Check it out here

4) Click here to read the report: "7 Things You MUST Know Before You Buy A Digital Piano"

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Questions and Comments on the Yamaha CLP340

Hi Graham

Thanks for the replies. Although, by the time I looked at the information you provided, I had already bought a piano. Needless to say, I did do a good bit of digging around on the net, and when I had a rough idea of the pianos I wanted to look at (some Yamaha's and Rolands), I used some of your tips to assess which I thought was the better quality piano within my price range. That, coupled with some great online reviews, I went for the Yamaha CLP 340, and I couldn't be happier!

So thanks for the tips that you've made readily available on ukpianos.co.uk, they helped quite a bit! :)

Brett

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At the moment I'm considering the Yamaha CLP 340.  I like the idea
of the direct connection to the internet and a few extra voices to
play around with.  My next decision is where to buy. 

I want to buy online for the discount but still want a decent service -
I need to go back on your web site and compare the internet sites you
recommend.  Does any particular internet shop stand out for value and service?

thanks, Allison

Reply/ Hi Allison

Thomann stand out from the crowd as being the best
for after sales customer service. They are truly
outstanding!

You might find lower prices at rockingrooster.co.uk
and imusician.co.uk. But you won't get the same
level of service.

Yours pianistically,
Graham Howard

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Hi again Graham

I'm about to go for it with Chappells who will match the 1800 pounds price I
got online for the CLP 340.

Just to be clear. It's definitely good value for money, in your opinion and
worth going up from the CLP 330.

You've sort of said this, but I just want to be sure before I part with all
my cash!!

Incidentally, is it not possible to get a high quality - realistic for
classical music - digital piano without all the gizmos - vibrophone etc?

I really appreciate your advice.

Best wishes
Jim

Reply/ Hi Jim

There isn't any decent digital pianos without gizmos.

The Yamaha CLP340 is an excellent choice. But you
can get it online for a lot less:

http://www.normans.co.uk/p-1503-yamaha-clp340-clavinova.aspx

http://www.umbrellamusic.co.uk/search.aspx?key=clp340

http://rockingrooster.co.uk/search_products.php?SVal=clp340&CatID=&Brand=&PMin=0&PMax=0

Yours pianistically,

Graham Howard

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Hi Graham

1)  My friend's CLP330 has a clunky sound - particularly when the key is depressed slowly and quietly, and then released - the sound is the key returning upwards, and is quite obtrusive....
2) Looking things up on the internet, I have noticed that  some people recommend the 340 as being well worth the extra £200 (+)... What is your expert opinion?
3) Are there any headphones in particular you would recommend, eg are the Numark ones  OK?

Reply/ The Yamaha CLP340 is absolutely better than
the CLP330.

If you're anything but a beginner then it's worth
spending a couple of hundred pounds more to get
the CLP340.

** Yamaha CLP330 versus Yamaha CLP340 (main
differences) **

With the CLP340 you get:

(1) Synthetic ivory keys - it feels just like tickling
the ivories on an old-fashioned Bechstein grand.

(2) Double the power (2 x 40 watts versus 2 x 20 watts
on the CLP330). This adds a richer tone, especially
in the bass.

(3) Higher quality speaker system.

(4) More extensive sound sampling. On a real piano a
note sounds different depending on how hard you strike
the key. It's all to do with harmonics.

To replicate this on a digital piano a note needs to
be sampled several times so it produces the right
amount, or specific type of harmonics related to the
speed the key was pressed -- it's complicated stuff!

Anyway, Yamaha went a little bit further with the
CLP340 in developing these sound samples.  The
result, which is probably all you're interested in :-),
is a more authentic sound.

Yours pianistically,

Graham Howard

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I chose the CLP340 because, after reading your and other advice and reviews, it seemed to have the highest spec for the money. As a player who has reached Grade VII Associated Board I wanted a sound and touch that corresponded to that of a good conventional piano. I was not interested in the extra 'bells and whistles' just the quality of the sound and the playing experience.

Regards, Marie Layng

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Hi Graham,

I received the pdf piano quide and opened it without any issue. I read all at once, and
decided which one to buy indeed ;-)

One of my friends had CLP340, I am a new beginner and didn't want to spend
that much at start - though I liked it's touch and sound very much. Then I looked to
few Kawai samples, I didn't like CN series at all, from CA series CA91 was good
but much very very expensive. I read one input from your forum, someone got CLP
340 and how happy he was from the synthetic ivory touch (which I felt the same).
The sales man in Kawai shop made a very nice statement saying I need to get the piano
I like, otherwise I'll not enjoy it and not play it. This plus your pdf made me to decide
on Yamaha CLP340 : it's nice to get one from your top 10 list, and this is the only option
in top 10 which has quite cheaper price tag than the other 9.
Hopefully in a week or so, I'll get my own CLP340!

It's great to be able to access so much info; I felt myself "secure" after reading your book,
at the end understanding what all these specific things are about pianos (such as GH3,
MIDI, transpose, etc..). I could understand and decide which parameter is important to
me. I felt my feet on the solid ground, thanks very much to you!

Selena

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