Disklavier

--- In disklavier@y..., "grego125" <grego125@y...> wrote:

> My RPT tells me that when you design a piano you never know how it 
> will sound untill it's built.  He & I feel that the MX88 sounds as 
> good as the baby grand but not as loud.  It stands 45 inches 
high.  
> About half way between the spinet & upright, but every bit as 
solid 
> as the upright & sounds just as good.  In the average home you 
don't 
> really need the volume.  In fact a lot of folks hunt for ways to 
> quiet the grands down as they are often too loud for the size room 
> they are in.

The reason why many uprights don't sound as "loud" as a grand is 
that the soundboard is up against a wall! If you were to position 
your piano in the middle of the room, it will get a lot louder.

Often, people who want to use a Disklavier as "background" music 
need to mute the piano. And it's better to install a soundboard mute 
than to crank the Disklavier volume down and lose the dynamic range 
in the music.

Many, if not most, of Yamaha's pre-recorded disks are too loud. I 
have a feeling they crank the velocities up so that pianos with 
slower actions (uprights) won't misfire on fast trills, etc.

You'll find that, in general, the longer the strings and the bigger 
the soundboard, the better the piano sounds (all other things being 
equal). It's not just the volume that goes up. In fact, the volume 
goes up very little between a 6' grand and a 9' grand. It's just 
that notes sustain longer, and you can hear the bass notes more 
clearly.