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Re: [disklavier] DKV volume

2014-02-20 by Spencer Chase

the truth is even funnier. there was a "concept" piano (i am trying to remember the name and find the link before i finish this e-mail) that had three hydraulic electric lifts for the lid to do just this. i don't think they ever built any other than the proto.

On 2/19/2014 4:18 PM, Fred Brown RPT wrote:

Hi Mark,

Great sense of humor. LOL

Fred

From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Fontana
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:20 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] DKV volume


On 02/18/2014 12:26 PM, George Frederick Litterst wrote:

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


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