Yamaha sponsors the event and, one presumes, originally set up all the recording facilities to capture hundreds of fine performances.
Clearly, someone in Yamaha maintains the Yamaha web pages for http://yamahaden.com/midi-files
I have sent 2 e-emails to "Yamaha Support" to find out who maintains this page and to answer my question as to why, after so many years of posting the e-competition performances, Yamaha has stopped posting the e-competition on that page. Both replies came back from Musicsoft and cannot answer my questions.
The Den page gives owners of ALL Disklaviers, options for downloading midis in file formats to suit their particular pianos – and this is no longer happening.
Now that new postings on the Den page have discontinued I can no longer get XP files for my Enspire Piano and I have to make do with Standard midis purchased thru Musicsoft. Of course I'm grateful that due to a promotion, these were available at no cost.
Musicsoft sales division does not seem to be supporting Yamaha's latest Enspire Pianos. They have so few XP formatted titles available. As they are no longer available on Den pages, why then are the 2017 e-competion files not available to Musicsoft in XP format, when the recordings were all certainly made on XP Pro pianos?
IAN WILLIAMSON
On 12/10/2017, at 11:17 PM, 'George F. Litterst' PianoBench@aol.com [disklavier] wrote:
Good morning, everyone.
Alak, I think it possible that the files have been removed from the store, perhaps because they were not intended to be available on a commercial basis.The files will eventually end up in the Signature MIDI Collection on the website of the Yamaha Disklavier Education Network (www.yamahaden.com) and on the website of the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition (www.piano-e-competition.com). I expect that to be the case within a month and will keep you informed.Regards,PianoBenchOn Oct 12, 2017, at 2:11 AM, Alak Ghosh alakghosh@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:Hi Guys,I tried to access the original link provided: https://eu.yamahamusicsoft.com/pianosoft/2017-e-piano-competition-highlights-17it automatically redirected me to: https://www.yamahamusicsoft.com/pianosoft/2017-e-piano-competition-highlights-17?___store=us_retail_en&and gave me a page not found 404 error. I also made sure I was logged into my Yamaha Musicsoft account before clicking the link.Is this link only accessible to EU customers?Thanks,Alak.On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:53 PM, "'Geoff Ward' gward1211@... [disklavier]" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
That’s probably it. I don’t have a Yamaha account. I’ll get the files from someone else.Kind regardsGeoffFrom: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com]
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