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I believe the 100R belongs to a MarkII Disklavier and requires the DKC850 to be an add-on thru MIDI cables to the existing control box. You cannot replace that box or get Disklavier radio. However, you can still buy Yamaha pianosoft discs = even on eBay if they still work. You would need the Yamaha floppy drive connected to one of the two USB ports on the DKC850 and put the Yamaha music into memory on the DKC850. Then put both the floppy drive and disks away somewhere. You can put 99 folders with 99 standard MIDI files (songs) in each on a USB thumb drive land play them using the DKC850.I believe that if you have speakers to be able to hear audio files (CDs and people singing) you can also play them on the DKC850. Also called Pianosoft plus audio. You can even get floppies that play the piano while playing the audio files on the CD called PianoSmaft. So you get all these new features, just not the Disklavier radio. Crappy! You con’t even need to know anything about pin assignments because you use standard MIDI cables to connect the boxes - MIDI In to MIDI out.

Carol

On Oct 9, 2014, at 5:57 PM, 'Jon Arnold' jonarnold@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Carol, I hear what you are saying and agree to an extent, but in my case where I want to upgrade my 100R to an 850 and Yamaha cannot even provide PINOUT information so that a cable can be made (purchasing one from Yamaha is apparently not an option, according to Yamaha customer service), so what other options are left?

From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 10:30 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Is it possible to copy disklavier music from floppy disks with a generic floppy drive?

I am always amazed by the unwillingness to use accessories made specifically for a product. In the case of the Disklavier it is also the pin assignments of the floppy drive. We are talking about $150 to be able to put proprietary music into your Disklavier. These are copy protected floppies that a computer cannot read without special software. Floppies also wear out over time so it might be better to just buy the music from Yamaha directly over the Internet. If you want non copyrighted music just download some of the thousands of free MIDI files available over the internet.

Carol Beigel

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On Oct 8, 2014, at 9:23 PM, mqphan@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Hi everyone:

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.

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.

Minh

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Re: [disklavier] Is it possible to copy disklavier music from floppy disks with a generic floppy drive?

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