Disklavier

It has been a month short of two years since I founded this group 
with a dozen or so charter members from the DUG group. As of now we 
have 505 members!!
Our objectives (and results) have been as follows:

1. Share our non-commercial, non-classical, pianocentric midi 
collections that we collected from the web, performed ourselves, or 
perhaps had a friend or family member perform.  We've been 
reasonably successful, but I think we are all disappointed that the 
bulk of the material in the "files" section of our site was uploaded 
by the early members in the first few months of the group's 
existence.  With the notable exceptions of Derek Barnes and Doug 
McKenzie (great stuff), the last 450 people to join have been 
enjoying our collections, without sharing theirs.

2. Create an easy reference of fair market values for disklaviers, 
to do for disklavier buyers what Edmunds does for car buyers.  I 
think we've been fairly successful with our "what I paid" database, 
but again the number of entries is a lot smaller than the 500 we 
would hope for.  If you have a success story of avoiding overpaying 
for a disklavier as a result of our efforts, please post it to the 
group.  If you haven't yet entered your info into the database, 
please take 5 minutes to do so.

3. Uncensored email exchanges.  Yamaha restricts conversations on 
DUG to avoid upsetting dealers with pricing discussions and the 
like.  That is reasonable and understandable since they underwrite 
DUG.  Here we are free of such restrictions, for the price of a 
couple ads embedded in our postings.

4. Exchange links to midi sites and other sites of interest to our 
group.  See the "bookmarks" tab of our site.

I need some feedback from the group at this point, and I will use 
our site's polling feature to get it in a format we can all easily 
see and review.  Please take a minute to cast your votes on the 
polls I generate and I will take the hours necessary to implement 
the improvements the group wants.