Disklavier

I did not have a chance to respond to the poll but I want you to know how 
much I have enjoyed this group over the past few years.  I originally joined 
to get some free music, as I suspect that several others have as well.  I 
have however gotten much more from the networking that you have afforded by 
opening the world of other disklavier owners to me.  I have also saved a 
great deal of money and learneed a lot about my instrument.  I found Yamaha 
service contacts through the website which allowed me to repair my own piano 
without getting taken by the local technicians.  For instance the dealer 
coame out to the house and quoted me a repair bill in the $700.00 range.  By 
calling the Yamaha service number I obtained I was able to simply replace 
the bad disk drive from my piano with a used drive from another yamaha 
device and the repair cost me a grand total of NOTHING using parts I had 
available.  Thanks to all you guys at Yamaha, especially Mark Wisner, who by 
the way if you have any questions will help you through the problem.  In the 
past I have contributed files to the vault and will do so again in the 
future.  Thanks for all you do in keeping the group going.

As far as sheet music I think that would be a dangerous place to go.  Public 
domain sheet music is available elsewhere.  I can't read sheet music well 
enough to play the piano well anyway, that's why I bought my disklavier 
years ago, so I could have others play for me.


>From: "Todd Muncy" <disklavier@...>
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [disklavier] Poll results for disklavier
>Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:48:35 -0500
>
>I have just closed out my two polls on our web site.  I'm afraid the poll 
>below was rather naive of me.  What I think I did, in effect, was to poll 4 
>chickens and 48 foxes on whether we should lock the hen house at night.  I 
>should have predicted these results.  The other poll surprised me a little 
>bit.  Only about 20% of the respondents are here mostly for the files.  
>File exchanges were the original raison d'etre for the group, but it has 
>evolved into a great alternative to censored communication via DUG.
>
>Does anyone think we could make use of the photo section for scanned sheet 
>music?  Right now we only have a picture of Groucho there.  Our 
>non-commercial midi performances are exempt from songwriter copyright 
>claims because we are a members only club swapping private performances for 
>no charge.  Copyrighted performances are of course taboo.  As always, if 
>you see a midi you know to be commercial in the files section, notify me 
>immediately and I will quickly remove it.   I think there are larger legal 
>problems with sheet music, unless the material is in the public domain i.e. 
>classical and ragtime.  Are there any attorneys in the group who could 
>comment on this?
>
>Someone might consider setting up a different (unlisted?) Yahoo group for 
>this purpose.  If we are not on firm legal ground, I won't do anything that 
>would risk having this group shut down.
>
>Comments please.
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>   To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 12:10 PM
>   Subject: [disklavier] Poll results for disklavier
>
>
>
>   The following disklavier poll is now closed.  Here are the
>   final results:
>
>
>   POLL QUESTION: The bulk of our midi file collection
>   came from a few early members and very
>   few new members are contributing.
>   Should we establish a policy giving
>   new members set time limit within
>   which to upload a contribution to the
>   files section in order to retain
>   membership?
>
>   CHOICES AND RESULTS
>   - Yes, require a contribution, 4 votes, 7.69%
>   - No, stick with voluntary system, 48 votes, 92.31%
>
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