Disklavier

I am assuming that you bought your ESEQ format music from Yamaha so you have the original floppy disks.. I have used Mark’s PPFBU software to convert those files to MIDI files. http://www.kinura.net.ppfbu <http://www.kinura.net.ppfbu/>   This only works on Windows operating system.  You convert them one disk at a time.  For some reason, I needed to use an old portable floppy disk player and not the Yamaha one I bought for the DKC850.

I found that my Yamaha wireless bluetooth interface, the BT-01 also worked well with my iPhone and Disklavier Mark II XG.    The details at:
www.midiplayertools.com/Connecting.htm <http://www.midiplayertools.com/Connecting.htm>

Now for my opinion part of this post 😂

I am old enough to remember buying my music on LPs.  I remember the conversions to 8-track cassettes and then those little cassettes.  I remember the first  CD my brother-in-law bought and the 1812 Overture blowing out his stereo speakers.  I remember the speakers that came with a Mark III Disklavier and the “new” less powerful ones that came with the Mark IV.  I can tell the difference between an mp3 file and the same song played and recorded on an analog system.

My first home computer was a Radio Shack TRS80 and then upgrading to the Commodore 64 and 128.  The concept of a disk drive of any kind, was not even invented at the time!  I built my own IBM 8088 and waited in line to buy Windows 95 so I could upgrade from DOS 3.1.

My first player was the Pianocorder Vorsetzer and the library of cassette tapes that came with it.  It was 80 pinball machine solenoids that rolled up to your piano keyboard.

My point is the hours of pure enjoyment that my family, friends and I enjoyed enjoyed with this equipment in my home - whether it was paying Pong on the Atari or listening to my 100 watt stereo system or my Mark II XG Disklaver with just one  speaker.

Our experience of sound has changed a lot in the 350 years since piano were invented.  It used to be each key signature had its own color, but now with Equal Temperament, all music notes are equidistant in tone.  We now hear music in black and white, instead of color.  Since tuning has been standardized, any music can be played in concert without retuning the piano.  No one alive ever missed the color in the piano music since the early 1900s because it had disappeared.

I feel the same way about audio MP3 files.  They just don’t create the live performance or an analog recording.  But in this age  of digital music, they take up less space.  But, do we really care?  Digital can give music more options.  And now you can have live piano music from your piano with surround style stereo.  Just enjoy it!

Carol Beigel