Disklavier

Why waste your time with Yamaha when you could be listening to great 
piano at www.perfessorbill.com  and www.garyw0001.com/frames.html

Happy listening.

Midi Magic



--- In disklavier@y..., "saierk" <saierk@y...> wrote:
> 
> Sorry.  I just get erked at how Yamaha insults it's customers by 
> pricing it's disks at $30 a pop.
> 
> The disks and packaging should cost less than .35 cents a piece to 
> produce.  Personnaly, I feel the artist should get about $2 from 
each 
> disk sold.  That comes to $2.35 each.  Since Yamaha needs to make a 
> profit, they can mark the disks up 400% and sell them at $10 a 
> piece.  The reseller can add $5.00, and wallah.....  you have $15 
per 
> disk.
> 
> Price fixing at $30 dollars each is insulting to the customer.
> 
> 
> --- In disklavier@y..., "Todd Muncy" <disklavier@m...> wrote:
> > Saierk,
> > Your message below certainly got my attention and frankly 
concerns 
> me greatly.  
> > 
> > I looked you up in the members log and see that you have been in 
> this group for less than 24 hours.  If you are expressing 
> disappointment that you can't find copyrighted performances here, 
I'm 
> glad to hear it.  We are scrupulous in keeping such material off 
our 
> site.  
> > 
> > If you don't like this policy, I suggest you discuss 
it...    ...in 
> some other group or try this link:  disklavier-unsubscribe@y...  
I'm 
> not trying to be self-righteous or holier-than-thou, but I've spent 
> two years defending this group against the slings and arrows of one 
> or two misinformed jerks who claimed our main purpose was to 
> circumvent copyrights and that we are a bunch of pirates.  As 
you've 
> discovered, nothing could be further from the truth!  
> > 
> > We are a private, members-only group, that shares private 
> performances internally, for our own enjoyment only and do not use 
> them for commercial purpose.  Some of the compositions still carry 
> copyright protection for their songwriters, but private non-
> commercial performances are exempt from royalties under copyright 
> law.  The wonderful thing about this group, is that you can find a 
> lot of this material here which is forced off of public websites by 
> the Harry Fox Agency (songwriters version of ASCAP/BMI).  If you're 
> tired of classical and ragtime, this is the club to belong to.
> > 
> > If you would prefer a Napster, piracy focused, alternative, I 
don't 
> have any recommendations.  If you find one or start one yourself, 
> please don't tell me about it or post info about on this board, or 
> you will find yourself a former member of this particular group.  
> Hope this more than answers your question.
> > 
> > 
> > Todd Muncy
> > disklavier-owner@Y...
> > 
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: saierk 
> >   To: disklavier@y... 
> >   Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 12:54 AM
> >   Subject: [disklavier] Napster of Disklavier ?
> > 
> > 
> >   The internet has brought about a huge movement in 
electonic "file 
> >   sharing".  This has included both copyrighted and non-
copyrighted 
> >   material.  In the audio world, Napster proliferated the 
> practice.  
> >   When Napster closed up, it was replaced by a hundred other file 
> >   sharing sites that share both copyrighted and non-copyrighted 
> files.  
> >   Where are the "Napster" sites of Disklavier files?
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> >   Todd's family web site was completely rewritten in June 2001 
and 
> contains some fun disklavier content and links to midi sites among 
> other things, The url is:
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> > 
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