Disklavier

Good morning, everyone.

In a message dated 6/12/02 8:28:51 AM, Mike writes:

<< Letting you all nbow that you can go to www.piano-e-competition.com now 
and 
download the DKV files of all preliminary round contestants.  Follow the 
directions to save as midi files. >>

In total, there will be MIDI files for 23 fabulous pianists up on the web 
site this week. At the moment, MIDI files for 7 of the contestants have been 
posted. Hopefully the rest will be posted within a day. The reason for the 
delay is that each contestant played an hour-long program in the 
Preliminaries that was recorded, in most cases, as a single MIDI file. It has 
been a time-consuming process to take each long MIDI file and to chop it up 
correctly into individual pieces.

The files that have been posted are clearly labelled with underlines that 
indicate an available link. You can right-click (Windows) or control-click 
(Macintosh) on these links and download the files to a floppy disk. Each file 
name contains the name of the artist for future reference. When you put the 
disk into your Disklavier, you will see the name of each piece and the name 
of the artist (to the extent that these items can be displayed in 32 
characters).

Please note that the web site lists the screening audition programs for each 
contestant. These programs were not recorded. Also, each contestant's page 
lists the solo piece that the contestant intends to play IF he/she makes it 
to the finals. Only six contestants make it to the finals. Their MIDI files 
should be available this weekend.

Regards,
PianoBench