Disklavier

Carol,

 

My Yamaha dealer told me that my grand piano is a "very late model Mark II
but not quite XG", and that I SHOULD be able to *replace* the 100R with the
850.   That would be my goal, since the 100R with floppies is quite old and
the disk drive has gone out twice already, and even in conjunction with the
Yamaha MU50 for the MIDI stuff, he tells me that 850 is far superior to the
100R/MU50 combo.  The only problem I have is finding a cable that can
convert the 9 pin from the piano to the 15 pin for the 850.  The cable that
comes in the conversion kit is virtually and literally unavailable anywhere,
and apparently the computer 9-15 pin converter cable does not have the right
pinouts, nor can Yamaha tell me what the pinouts should be??

 

 

From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 6:32 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Is it possible to copy disklavier music from
floppy disks with a generic floppy drive?

 

  

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:  <mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com> disklavier@yahoogroups.com [
<mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com> mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 10:30 PM
To:  <mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com> 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,  <mailto:mqphan@...> mqphan@...
[disklavier] < <mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
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