Disklavier

I bypass the outmoded floppy system, and use my computer with MIDI. Seems a far better solution with older DKV pianos. 

Sam
www.keyboardcollective.com
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*(Sent from phone - please excuse brevity and typos.)

> On Jun 28, 2014, at 8:25 AM, "'Jon Arnold' jonarnold@... [disklavier]" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I bought a beautiful Yamaha 5’2” grand, love it.  It came with a Yahaha Disklavier DKC100R unit (the one that uses the floppy disks), and the original owner had it wired up underneath with an amplifier, speakers, really nice.  The original owner also gave me a few dozen floppies of various genres which I have enjoyed immensely.
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> About 6 months ago the unit was generating an error every time I would put a different disk in.  I took a handful of the disks that it failed with, down to the local dealer, where each of them played just fine.  So the tech came out and made some adjustments to the unit, then they worked fine.
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> Now 6 months later, the same thing is happening, and its not from overuse because the number of times I’ve used the unit since the tech was here 6 months ago can be counted on one hand.
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> Perhaps it needs an upgrade?  What would you suggest?  A new disk drive?  Upgrade to CD?  (Yikes, $1700!)  Or am I further ahead to get something where I could put a thumb drive into a USB port and have it play music from there?  If the latter, does the thumb drive need to be formatted in a special way so that the unit can read it?
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> Thanks!
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