Yamaha Arius YDP-161 Digital Piano Rosewood

Yamaha Arius YDP-161 Digital Piano Rosewood Product Detail

The Yamaha YDP-181 offers you a playing experience remarkably like that of a grand piano. The Arius offers a Digital piano with Graded Hammer keyboard and 3-level AWM Dynamic Stereo Sampling voices.

• Graded Hammer (GH) keyboard
• 3-level Advanced Wave Memory (AWM) Dynamic Stereo Sampling
• New acoustic system offers clearer sound with enhanced presence
• "128 Note Polyphony" - Rich expressive power, free from sound cutoff even when the sustain pedal is used to layer notes
• "2 Track Recording" - Record your performances to listen to yourself play. Convenient for piano lessons.
• "USB TO DEVICE Terminal" - Use USB flash memory to record songs or save song data you have purchased.

The YDP-181 delivers a rich sound thanks to the combined power of 3-Level AWM Dynamic Stereo Sampling. What's more, delicate expression is possible using the GH keyboard, offering a touch that is remarkably similar to that of a grand piano. It is a true joy to play. It also features a 2-track song recorder to create your own music and record your performances.




The piano sound is sampled from the Yamaha Full Concert Grand Piano "CFIIIS", which has won high plaudits all over the world. Yamaha emphasizes the natural sounds that should emanate from pianos. Sampling is carefully performed over a long period, from the birth of note, to it's faded end. Creating a natural sound and attenuation that feels nothing like an electronic piano. In addition, Yamaha also focus on the change in timbre due to the strength or weakness of the key strike that is an endemic characteristic of pianos. Sound sampling covers more than 10 stages of key strike strength for each keyboard.



The "Tone Escape" outlet for sound coming from the back of the keyboard has been widened, resulting in the piano sound becoming clearer as is the volume increase. Maximum polyphony is 128 notes. Yamaha also focuses on the expressive power of pedaling. Three stable pedals are mounted, including the damper, the soft pedal, and sostenuto. The damper pedal offers a half-pedal response. The damper can handle micro-adjustments of its strength, depending on how hard the pedal is pressed.



By utilising years of experience building acoustic pianos, Yamaha has created a digital piano that feels in everyway like the real thing. The Arius responds to slight differences in touch, with the low sound regions of the grand piano being heavy to the touch, while the high sound regions become steadily lighter. With stability and endurance in response to any kind of performance, it offers the comfort and quality expected of Yamaha keyboards.

The Yamaha volume control knob allows for particularly detailed adjustment at low volume levels. When practicing at home where playing at high volume may not be possible, you can set the optimum sound volume. Because it is an electronic piano with no need for tuning, it is maintenance-free. The Yamaha YDP comes with two headphone terminals to enable practice without fear of anti-social behaviour orders. So parent and child can enjoy lessons or piano duets even with Muting on.

• Size/Weight
• Width: 1,357 mm (53-11/16")
• Height: 815 mm (32-9/16")
• Depth: 822 mm (20-1/4")
• Weight: 50 kg (110lbs., 4 oz.)
• Control Interface
• Number of Keys: 88
• Type: Graded Hammer (GH) Keyboard
• Touch Sensitivity: Hard/Medium/Soft/Fixed
• Number of Pedals: 3
• Half Pedal: Yes
• Functions: Damper, Sostenuto, Soft
• Display Type: LED
• Display: 7-Segment, 3-Digit
• Panel Language: English
• Cabinet
• Key Cover Style: Sliding
• Music Rest: Yes
• Voices
• Tone Generation: Tone Generating Technology AWM Dynamic Stereo Sampling
• Number of Dynamic Levels: 3
• Number of Polyphony (Max.): 128
• Preset Number of Voices: 14
• Effects
• Reverb: 4 Types
• Chorus: Yes
• Brilliance: Yes
• Dual/Layers: Yes
• Songs
• Number of Preset Songs: 14 Demo Songs, 50 Piano Preset Songs
• Recording Number of Songs: 3
• Number of Tracks: 2
• Data Capacity: User songs (100KB x 3), External songs (639KB)
• Recording Function: Yes
• Compatible Data Format Playback: SMF (Format 0 & 1)
• Recording: SMF (Format 0)
• Functions
• Metronome: Yes
• Tempo Range: 32-280
• Transpose: 12 to 0, 0 to +12
• Tuning: Yes
• Scale Type: 7 Types
• Storage and Connectivity
• Internal Memory: 337Kb
• Headphones: x 2
• MIDI: IN / OUT
• Amplifiers and Speakers
• Amplifiers: 20W x 2
• Speakers: 16cm x 2
• Accessories
• Headphones Hanger: Yes
• Song Book: "50 greats for the Piano"