Class Piano Lab Manufacturers: Yamaha

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Yamaha has THREE different Class Piano Lab setups. See Yamaha Music Laboratory System :

- LC2 Plus Music Lab
- MLC100
- MIE

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The LC2 Plus Music Lab:

 

The Yamaha LC2 Plus Music Lab is practically identical to to the Roland RCS-848. In fact, THEY ARE IDENTICAL because they both have been designed and manufactured by the same company in California: JL Cooper Electronics.

Of the five companies reviewed on this site, the Class Piano Systems of four companies (Kawai, Kurzweil, Roland, and Yamaha) have been designed and manufactured by JL Cooper Electronics in California.

The Yamaha and Roland systems are of a new generation of Class Piano System in that they are MODULAR -- that is, you can add additional pianos to your lab by merely updating the Classroom Hub with an EXPANSION CARD. Older systems (including Korg's GECII) are limited to 16 keyboards and if you want to expand to more than that you have to physically have TWO or MORE control units 'networked' together.

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The MLC100 Teacher Station (only available from Yamaha directly):

The MLC100 is a teacher control unit with 16 individual student hookups and can be configured for individuals or groups. Only available directly from Yamaha. See the MIE

Accessories:

MLA100 Interface Box
NB100B 10M Connection Cable
HPE100M Headphone with Microphone

The MLC100 can be configured for any combination of individual keyboards up to 16.

The MLC100 is used with the HPE100 with microphones and the MLA 100 student call boxes.  The system is intended to be used with Yamaha's Clavinova digital pianos.

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Also see Yamaha Clavinova.

Visit Yamaha's home site.

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