Disklavier

Yamaha makes 2 kinds of these hybrid pianos.  The Silent Piano was the old 
name for the MIDI piano which is a regular acoustic piano that has key 
sensors.  To play the piano in Silent Mode, one throws a switch and dons 
headphones.  The hammers never hit the strings while in this mode, so the 
piano is "silent".  What the piano player hears, wearing the headphones, is 
a tone-generated piano sound.  There is usually a MIDI out port on the 
switch box.  There is no playback feature on these pianos because there are 
no solenoids under the keys.  There is no processor in which to store 
recorded data.

A Disklavier has solenoids under the back of the keys that make the piano 
play.  DKVs can be playback only models that do not have a record feature.  
They can have both Record and Playback capability.  Or they can also have 
the Silent feature (most Mark IIIs)in addition to the Record and Playback 
capabilities.

You cannot Record from a playback only Disklavier.  But you can record from 
a MIDI piano (or the old name, Silent Piano) through the MIDI Out port, 
through a MIDI interface connected to a computer running sequencing 
software.

Yamaha also makes digital, piano shaped objects that look like pianos, but 
have no strings.  They have piano actions so they feel like acoustic pianos, 
and some of these even have Disklaviers - they Record and Playback, as well 
as silent features.

Carol Beigel


>From: "lozzy_uk" <lozzy@...>
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [disklavier] Re: USB to Midi In/Out
>Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 02:24:03 -0000
>
>--- In disklavier@y..., "Carol Beigel" <carolrpt@h...> wrote:
> > If you had a Silent Piano, recording directly into your computer
> > would be the only way to go,
>
>I don't follow any of that statement..I have a silent piano and I can
>record on either it or cakewalk.
>
> >but you wouldn't get the piano to play back like a
> > disklavier.
>
>This is the next bit I don't get - why not?
>
>regards
>Lozzy
>




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