Portable Keyboards Special Site

The origins of Yamaha’s prolific keyboard instruments date back to 1887 when Torakusu Yamaha first repaired a reed organ. Later, Nippon Gakki (now Yamaha) was founded, and production of upright pianos began in 1900. Yamaha grew to become the world’s largest manufacturer of musical instruments.

Later shifting focus to electronic keyboard instruments, Yamaha developed our first electronic organ in 1959, the Electone D-1. Over the years that followed, the company developed the Electone GX-1, the CP-70/80 stage pianos, and the CS-80 synthesizer. In 1979, Yamaha released the company’s first portable keyboards, the PS-1, 2 and 3, as well as the piano-type GS-1 electronic keyboard, and in 1983 debuted the YP-30, the first in the Clavinova series. This series would become the international standard for the digital pianos that followed.

Yamaha’s electronic keyboards are renowned throughout the world thanks to their beautiful sounds, superior playability, functionality that reflects the essence of musical instrument performance, and their superb level of quality control. This high level of quality and value is made possible largely due to the company’s extensive knowledge and skills accrued from manufacturing not just keyboards, but a wide variety of string, percussion, and acoustic instruments as well.

In 2007, Yamaha released the PSR-I425, a keyboard that was designed specifically for performers of Indian music, with the PSR-I500, I400 and I300 released in succession afterwards.

To this day Yamaha continues to contribute to the music culture of India in many ways, including sales of products that are recognized as Trinity-grade instruments.

The PSR-I Series is designed specifically for players of Indian music. This series offers a full array of advantages for keyboardists playing Indian music, including authentic Indian instrument sounds, auto accompaniment perfect for playing Indian music from a variety of regions and Indian films, Songs for practicing Raga scales, a “Riyaz” feature for auto-playback of Tabla / Mridangam and Tanpura sounds, and more.

Voice & Style Expansion Pack

Voice & Style Expansion Packs enable you to customize the PSR-SX series with a wide range of additional content. Here we introduce three packs that focus on Voices and Styles for Indian music.

Make in India

Yamaha has a long history of strict quality control, with decades of dedication to world-class quality and durability. Yamaha keyboards have undergone a variety of durability tests ranging from exposure to extreme temperatures and humidity, to dropping the keyboards, and pressing the keys aggressively over extended periods of time, among other tests.

In 2019, Yamaha opened a new factory in Chennai.

Some of our keyboards, including Indian models, are produced in this state-of-the-art facility, and the products shipped from here all meet Yamaha’s rigorous quality standards as with our other factories.

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