Disklavier

In fact, the Yamaha Disklavier (DC3 Mark II) does incorporate a limiter. 
  With the volume control set at 0, the hammer velocity increases with 
increasing note-on velocity until a note-on velocity of 90 is reached. 
The sound output (and presumably the hammer velocity) is identical for 
all note-on velocities in the range of 90 through 127.  At other 
settings of the DKV's volume control, no note is ever driven harder than 
it would be at volume 0 and note-on velocity 90.

It is possible, although not too easy, for a pianist to record notes on 
a DKV with note-on velocities exceeding 100.  However, those notes will 
be reproduced as though they were of a note-on velocity of 90.

I'm not aware of damage others may have experienced due to high velocity 
MIDI files.  A too loud MIDI file sends me sprinting to the volume 
control and I've never had a string or escapement part break. Your good 
sense tells you to first play an unknown MIDI file at a low volume 
setting.  You can't hurt your DKV if you do that.

Denis Stypulkoski wrote:
> With regard to the reponse that high velocity values can be damaging to the
> Disklavier piano actions:  can Yamaha incorporate a 'limiter' into the next
> firmware release that prevents the piano from playing (on the keyboard) a
> value that is above the limit determined to be acceptable to Yamaha?  IT
> should be rather straigthforward I would think, and would prevent an
> unknowing owner from causing damage.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Denis Stypulkoski
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 
>    Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 21:40:08 -0500
>    From: "Carol Beigel" <carolrpt@...>
> Subject: Re: Playing downlaoding files
> 
> The highest MIDI velocity than can be played has a value of 128. Many MIDI
> files downloaded from the internet were created on an electronic keyboard,
> and yes this can be very damaging to your piano. I find the best range is
> between 60 and 75.
> 
> Carol Beigel
> crbrpt@...
> 
> 
>>From: "thegorens" <goren@...>
>>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>>Subject: [disklavier] Playing downlaoding files
>>Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 20:29:18 -0000
>>
>>Most of the MIDI files that I download off the internet bang the keys
>>of the piano very hard when I play them on the Disklavier.  Does
>>anyone have any suggestions for how to optimize MIDI files for a
>>Disklavier?  Can it be damaging to the piano to play files off the
>>internet that cause the keys of the Disklavier to be pressed too
>>hardly?
>>
>>Rob
>>
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Robert Welcyng
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