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YDP-166

Colors / Finishes

  • Dark Rosewood
  • Black
  • White Birch
  • White

Digital piano with 88-weighted keys and authentic piano sound. Classic design, perfect for beginners and home practice.

  • 88-key GrandTouch-E™ keyboard delivers the natural feel of an acoustic piano.
  • CFX Grand Piano Voice captures the rich tone of our flagship concert grand piano.
  • Three pedals (damper, soft, sostenuto) for expressive tone and precise control
  • 20W × 2 stereo amp and 12cm speakers with diffuser grilles deliver rich, immersive sound.
  • Traditional upright design with refined details, fits seamlessly into any living space.
  • Plug in headphones to practice quietly.
  • With 10 voices and 353 songs, you can explore a variety of ways to play and learn.
  • Bluetooth® connectivity lets you stream music, easily control settings, and connect with learning apps.
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A young girl practicing on an ARIUS piano in a living room
A living room featuring a black ARIUS piano with houseplants and a sofa, harmoniously integrated with the interior
A living room featuring a white birch ARIUS piano with houseplants and a sofa, harmoniously integrated with the interior
A living room featuring a white ARIUS piano with houseplants and a sofa, harmoniously integrated with the interior

    STEP INTO THE ART OF THE PIANO

    Learning to express yourself musically is about more than proper technique—you also need to build a sense of musicality and develop a feeling for what you want to share with the world.

    ARIUS pianos are more than just tools for practice—they are partners on a lifelong musical journey, allowing you to pour your full range of emotions into the keys, and discover your capacity to breathe life into music.

    TRUE PIANO EXPRESSION

    For over a century, Yamaha has crafted the pianos played on the world’s greatest stages. The ARIUS Series brings this heritage and technology into your home with instruments designed to offer beginning players and those returning to playing after a break the authentic feel and resonance of acoustic pianos.

    For beginning players or those have just returned to playing the piano, it’s important to choose a instrument that possesses one of the key factors behind the expressive power capabilities of the piano—the ability to respond to your touch exactly as you intended.

    • The side profile of a young girl happily playing an ARIUS piano

    PLAYABILITY

    CONSISTENT FEEL AND EXPRESSIVE RESPONSE FOR SUPERB EXPRESSIVE CONTROL

    Powerful, delicate, fast—the GrandTouch-E™ keyboard responds to changes in the way you play, with a feel close to that of a grand piano. Consistent response across a variety of playing styles ensures a comfortable, enjoyable playing experience.

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    Playing the GrandTouch‑E™ keyboard with both hands

    INTUITIVE PEDALING FOR A MORE NUANCED PERFORMANCE

    The damper pedal is equipped with a half-pedaling feature, allowing you to sustain sounds as long or short as you wish by controlling the depth of the pedal for more intricate expression.

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    A right foot pressing the damper pedal

    SOUND

    BRINGING THE SOUND OF A CONCERT GRAND PIANO INTO YOUR HOME

    ARIUS pianos feature a Voice created by sampling the CFX, Yamaha’s flagship concert grand piano. The CFX Voice has richly colorful sound throughout all registers and ample expressiveness to capture your emotions.

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    Yamaha CFX concert grand piano on a concert hall stage

    CLEARER SOUND THAT TRAVELS FARTHER

    The new diffuser grille makes treble notes clearer even at a distance . The well-balanced sound throughout all registers creates a pleasant sound field for both players and listeners alike.

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    Sound waves expanding from an ARIUS piano in a living room

    BEAUTIFULLY SIMULATED DEPTH OF RESONANCE FROM PIANO STRINGS

    ARIUS pianos are equipped with Virtual Resonance Modeling Lite (VRM Lite), which intricately simulates the complex resonance of a grand piano’s strings. The keys and pedals can be played in tandem to achieve a variety of sounds.

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    An image depicting Virtual Resonance Modeling Lite (VRM Lite), which recreates the complex resonance of grand piano strings

    A PARTNER FOR EVERYDAY LIFE

    When your piano blends in at home, music becomes an integral part of everyday life.

    ARIUS digital pianos feature refined designs and convenient features in compact units that are perfect for apartments, living rooms, and other spaces in the home.

    Smart device connectivity along with recording functions and expressive Voices ensures that daily practice is more fun and effective, making music an indelible part of your everyday life.

    • An ARIUS piano in a living room with the lid closed, blending in with the interior

    DESIGN

    SOPHISTICATED DESIGN THAT BLENDS IN WITH HOME INTERIORS

    The YDP-166 feature a compact design with quintessential piano curves and a lineup of colors to match any home interior.

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    An ARIUS piano that blends in well in living rooms, and the curves in the design details

    DIGITAL FEATURES

    HELPFUL FEATURES FOR PRACTICING AND PERFORMING

    ARIUS pianos have many helpful features for practicing and performing, including a wide variety of preset songs, a metronome, and recording functions, and automatic volume control to make listening through headphones easier on the ears.

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    Playing an ARIUS piano with headphones and operating the control panel buttons

    EXPANDING THE FUN OF THE PIANO

    ARIUS pianos feature a total of 10 Voices, including piano, electric piano, and strings, to add depth to your playing.

    They can also be connected to Bluetooth-enabled devices and used as a speaker or to play along with your favorite tunes.

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    Images of a digital piano connected to a smart device via Bluetooth, and multiple built‑in voices

    MORE CONVENIENCE WITH THE SMART PIANIST APP

    Simply connect the free Smart Pianist app to your ARIUS piano via Bluetooth to enjoy even more convenience.

    Benefits:

    ・Simplified controls from your device

    ・Sheet music for all 353 preset songs

    ・Support functions to help you practice your favorite songs more efficiently

    ・Record yourself and save the data on your device

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    A tablet screen showing the Smart Pianist app in use

    CONSISTENT FEEL AND EXPRESSIVE RESPONSE FOR SUPERB EXPRESSIVE CONTROL

    The YDP-166 offer pianists control over the delicate nuances of the instrument’s sound, allowing them to play the keys at different intensities and to different depths throughout the 10-mm stroke to suit the mood and desired dynamics of a piece.

    The GrandTouch-E™ keyboard provides a real sense of responsiveness and complexity that changes with how it is played, much like a grand piano. The keys respond consistently, even when you play many notes at once.

    An image showing the structure of the GrandTouch‑E™ keyboard

    INTUITIVE PEDALING FOR A MORE NUANCED PERFORMANCE

    Like the keys, the pedals are parts of the interface between the player and the piano. ARIUS pianos have a damper pedal, a soft pedal, and a sostenuto pedal, just like grand pianos. The pedals can be used to sustain sounds as well as add depth and create crispness, putting a broader array of expression at your feet.

    The pedals are realistic-feeling and responsive, delivering a level of precision that allows you to play exactly what you imagine.

    BRINGING THE SOUND OF A CONCERT GRAND PIANO INTO YOUR HOME

    The Yamaha CFX concert grand piano used for the sampling was tuned to perfection by a seasoned professional so that every note from the dazzling treble to the powerful bass could be recorded with care. Yamaha then meticulously adjusted each note to create a harmonious piano Voice. These thoughtful efforts resulted in a faithful simulation of colorful tone and dynamic nuance throughout all registers, and delivered a beautifully resonant sound.

    CLEARER SOUND THAT TRAVELS FARTHER

    Over the decades, Yamaha has refined its digital technology through both research and development, studying the sound-producing mechanism of grand pianos and designing pro audio equipment and sound systems.

    The knowledge derived from these efforts underpins the workings of ARIUS pianos, which appeal to both players and audiences with clear, resonant sound despite being compact digital pianos. The new diffuser grille makes treble notes even clearer, creating a pleasant, well balanced sound field that resonates throughout all registers.

    BEAUTIFULLY SIMULATED DEPTH OF RESONANCE FROM PIANO STRINGS

    Grand pianos are known and loved for the resonant sound produced when the entire instrument vibrates.

    As a long-time manufacturer of grand pianos, Yamaha is intimately familiar with how grand pianos resonate, and funneled its knowledge into the development of VRM Lite, which faithfully simulates the complex resonance of a grand piano when the vibrations of the strings belonging to the notes being played are transmitted to the other strings. The resonance depends on when the keys are played and how far down the pedals are depressed.

    SOPHISTICATED DESIGN THAT BLENDS IN WITH HOME INTERIORS

    Deceptively simple design with curves incorporated throughout to create a graceful presence fitting for a piano. The YDP-166 have gently rounded corners and other safety features to make them safe for people of all ages.

    The design combines safety with sophisticated beauty that blends in with home interiors, a hallmark of Yamaha digital pianos.

    HELPFUL FEATURES FOR PRACTICING AND PERFORMING

    Yamaha has expended every effort to deliver a pleasant playing experience, even with headphones.

    The sound balance is automatically adjusted to the volume, making the output pleasant at any level. ARIUS pianos also have a Stereophonic Optimizer that simulates the natural spread of sound as if you were sitting at an acoustic piano, rather than simply emitting a sound to be heard only in your ears, creating a more immersive playing experience.

    The menu of preset songs includes pieces from the accompanying collection of sheet music, “50 Classical Masterpieces,” as well as 303 exercises from piano method books by Beyer, Burgmüller, Czerny, and Hanon.

    An image showing a function that simulates the natural spreading of sound when using headphones

    EXPANDING THE FUN OF THE PIANO

    Featuring a total of 10 Voices, including an authentic grand piano Voice as well as electric piano, pipe organ, vibraphone, and strings.

    Try the Voices with any genre of music, or layer them on top of each other to enjoy playing in ways only possible on a digital piano.

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