Disklavier

After my floppy drive seemed to have died, then discovering that a new floppy drive from Yamaha was $335, I bought a USB floppy drive from Amazon for $10 and with the help of a conversion program, copied all my Yamaha disks to my computer and played them through MIDI, and stopped using floppies altogether.

I subsequently fixed the old floppy drive by jamming a floppy into it really hard. Works perfectly now, but don't use it.

Sam 
www.keyboardcollective.com






> On Oct 8, 2014, at 9:23 PM, mqphan@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone:
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> I have a Disklavier E3.  It does not have a floppy drive, but there are a lot of Disklavier music for sale on Ebay on floppies.  Is it possible to purchase an inexpensive generic floppy drive (instead of the expensive one sold by Yamaha), connect it to my Mac, and copy the music files from the floppies onto my computer?  I can then transfer these files onto the Disklavier E3 directly or via an USB memory stick as an intermediate step.
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> I appreciate knowing if the above steps would work, and the quality of the music on those floppies that are for sale on Ebay such as the Mozart Classical Solo Piano Collection.  Thank you in advance for your comments.
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> Minh
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