Disklavier

Mark,

This is a wonderful idea! I will contact our Japanese engineers tonight, I will ask Craig to put together a combination Talking Piano/Proportional Lid Angle technology video. I am not at liberty to say what the Piano Guys will be doing with all of this incredible technology!

Bill

On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Mark Fontana <mark@...> wrote:


> On 02/18/2014 12:26 PM, George Frederick Litterst wrote:
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> Ideally, controller 7 would reposition the lid of your piano. That way, it would change the volume of sound without changing the timbre. Obviously, that is not               practical.

Are you sure?  Yamaha could be missing out on an opportunity here.  If Proportional Lid Angle(tm) is implemented for the E4 Disklavier on MIDI controller 7, I can already imagine videos from Craig Knudsen and The Piano Guys making use of this new feature.   It would be no more gimmicky than the Talking Piano video or the Mark IV's Key Waves demo.   One of the bundled demo files could be ROOM_FAN.MID, which would fully open and close the lid slowly for an hour on those hot summer days.

Mark Fontana