CSP-150 User Manual

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CSP-170/CSP-150 Owner’s Manual

Playing the Clavinova as a Piano

Using the headphone hanger

A headphone hanger is included in the instrument package so that you can hang the headphones on the

instrument. Install the headphone hanger by following the instructions at the end of this manual.

NOTICE

Do not hang anything other than the headphones on the hanger. Otherwise, the instrument or the hanger may be damaged.

This instrument is equipped with three foot pedals: damper pedal (right), sostenuto pedal (center), and soft

pedal (left).

NOTE

If the pedals do not work, the pedal cord plug may be not connected. Securely insert the pedal cord plug into the proper jack (page 36).

Damper pedal (right pedal)

When you press the damper pedal, the notes you play have a longer sustain.

This instrument has a Half-pedal function for fine, expressive control of the

sustain.

Sostenuto pedal (center pedal)

If you play a note or chord on the keyboard and press the sostenuto pedal

while holding the note(s), the notes will sustain as long as the pedal is held.

All subsequent notes will not sustain.

NOTE

While the sostenuto (center) pedal is held, a sustained (non-decaying) type of Voice such as organ

or strings may sound continuously without decay after the notes have been released.

Soft pedal (left pedal)

The soft pedal reduces the volume and slightly changes the timbre of notes played while the pedal is

pressed. The soft pedal will not affect notes that are already playing when it is pressed.

NOTE

This pedal function may be different from the normal soft (left) pedal function, depending on the selected Voice. For example, when the

“Mellow Organ” is selected, pressing and releasing this pedal switches between the “fast” and “slow” speeds of the Rotary Speaker

effect.

Using the pedals

Half-pedal function

The Half-pedal function allows you to use half-damper techniques, in which the

damper is pressed somewhere between all the way down and all the way up. In this

half-damper state (on a real piano), the damper felts only partially mute the strings.

This function lets you delicately and expressively control the damper muting, and

create subtle nuances in your performance, by finely controlling the point at which

pressure on the pedal affects the damper muting. This can be set with the Smart

Pianist smart device app.

When you press the damper

pedal here, the notes you

play before you release the

pedal have a longer sustain.

When you press the sostenuto

pedal here while holding the

note(s), the notes will sustain

as long as you hold the pedal.

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