I'm thinking about buying the following piano:

http://www.chappellofbondstreet.co.uk/P~YA...ood?attributes=

A Yamaha CLP-470. I'm moving up from a p90.

Firstly it would be nice to know peoples opinion of the clavinova.

Secondly I want to know how easy it is to assemble/disassemble and move. We are moving soon from a block of flats with lift, to a flat with no lift but lots of stairs. The prospect of carrying a 70kg piano up the stairs isn't appealing.

Thanks!

Clavinovas come to pieces very easily from my experience. They are still heavy and need 2 persons to move and put together again! I have not dealt with this model myself but I wonder why things would have changed.

I think you should check with those sales people? Send an email - it won't hurt?

I've just bought the very same piano, only mine is in the polished black finish! I'm very pleased with it. It took two fella's from the shop (not Chappells) to deliver it. One of them was assembling the stool while the other assembled the piano. They were both needed to ensure the keyboard section was firmly fixed on. I know they are experienced, but they made it look very easy. They were gone in under an hour. The top half basically affixes to the bottom half with screws. They left me a handbook with assembly/disassembly directions in, and it does look very straightforward.

It has a lovely sound to it, with good responsive keys. The shelf underneath is a Godsend for helping my storage problems in regards to music. My other instrument was a Clavinova too, but it was about twelve years old, and very clumpy in comparison.

All in all it was money well spent. Enjoy!

Would it not be best to wait until you've moved before getting it? It would save the hassle...just a thought.

I have a Clavinova CVP which is about 14 years old. The base is detatchable from the keyboard. When we moved house last year my hubbie and I were able to get it upstairs in 2 pieces reasonably easily between us, despite the fact I'm quite small. My hubbie reassembled it with no problems. However this is an older model and I've no idea if the newer models are the same.

I gave them a call today and they said it was easy to disassemble and reassemble but would need two people to attach the keyboard. which is copeable.



I could wait but I've been waiting to buy this piano for half a year! Now I have the money for it I don't particularly want to wait any longer. It will still be a month before we move...

Personally I would like a polished ebony piano, but the extra ?250 wasn't really worth it... Wooden keys and USB recording functions sold it for me

Thanks for alerting me to the shelf underneath. I didn't know that was there. My music books have been taking up a decently sized row of shelf space so will be happy to free that up.

Got the piano today.

Pretty happy with it so far, but can't figure out how to get songs playing, or what songs are on the thing.

Any help?

You should be able to Google and find a downloadable manual if you haven't got one.

All fixed now!

turns out that the book of '50 greatest piano pieces' it came with doubles up as a guide to the song list.

Would have been nice if they told you somewhere though...