Digital Piano
Casio GP-310 Celviano Grand Hybrid
Price: 2.555 EUR – 2.555 EUR
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A flagship digital piano built with an actual grand piano action - real wooden hammers and keys rather than a simulated mechanism - developed in partnership with the German piano maker C. Bechstein.
About the Casio GP-310 Celviano Grand Hybrid
The Grand Hybrid line's defining feature is genuinely mechanical: it uses real acoustic grand piano hammers and a wooden keyboard action rather than simulating that feel electronically, giving a fundamentally different touch experience from any purely digital hammer-action keyboard. Because there are no strings or soundboard to produce actual sound, sensors detect the hammer's movement and trigger a sampled sound - the mechanical authenticity of an acoustic grand's touch combined with a digital instrument's silent-practice and recording flexibility.
Casio's partnership with C. Bechstein specifically informed the piano sound sampling and touch tuning, lending the GP-310 a tonal pedigree tied to a respected acoustic piano maker rather than being a purely in-house Casio design - a genuine collaboration aimed at closing the gap between digital convenience and acoustic grand piano authenticity as completely as current technology allows.
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Sound character of the Casio GP-310 Celviano Grand Hybrid
Unlike a typical digital piano's velocity-switched samples, this action's real wooden grand-piano hammers and keys let sensors track continuous hammer movement, closely mirroring how an acoustic grand's sound actually responds to touch - producing smoother, more natural dynamic gradation and a fuller sense of string-like resonance than a simulated action.
Technical data for the Casio GP-310 Celviano Grand Hybrid
| Keys | 88, real wooden grand piano action |
|---|---|
| Partnership | C. Bechstein |
| Sound trigger | Sensor-detected hammer movement |
| Level | Flagship |
The history of the Casio GP-310 Celviano Grand Hybrid
Casio developed the Celviano Grand Hybrid line in partnership with C. Bechstein, combining a real mechanical grand piano action with digital sound and practice flexibility.
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