Disklavier

Good morning, everyone.

I would like to follow-up on this thread:

In a message dated 7/26/02 7:57:59 AM, PianoBench writes:

<< In a message dated 7/25/02 9:35:59 PM, Winfield asks a very interesting 
question:

<<I'm a paraplegic -- I've only played digital pianos up 'til now, since I
can control the sustain pedal on them using a mercury tilt switch on a
headband. I'm hoping to jack into the pedal solenoid circuit on the
disklavier to use the same head/pedalling technique.  I'll have it done by
a technician, but the first one I talked to wasn't sure how to do it.  Are
there any techie types out there who could make some suggestions about how
to proceed? >>

Winfield wrote about his MX80 series Diskalviers.

I double-checked with Mark Wisner at Yamaha and verified that there is no way 
to set the MX80 series Disklaviers to respond to incoming MIDI data in real 
time. Therefore, there will always be the 500 ms delay when you use the MIDI 
pedalling solution that I proposed in my previous email. This would not be 
true with other Disklaviers.

Mark did point me toward this article on the web from PianoDisc:

http://www.pianodisc.com/whatsnew/articles/adapter.html

The article refers to a product for directly interfacing a pedalling system 
(like the one proposed by Winfield) to a PianoDisc system. I cannot find any 
other info about the actual product on the web site, so you will have to call 
the company for more info. I also do not know if that product can be 
interfaced easily with a Disklavier.

You may find that a cleaver technician can custom wire a simple circuit into 
the pedal solenoid on a Disklavier. I don't really know for sure.

Regards,
PianoBench