Dear
Carol,
Thank
you for your reply. I work in the Steinway dealership of Los Angeles, and
after spending the first seven years of my life working in Human Resources,
working for Steinway has been a breath of new life to me. I was a Piano
major in college, and have found that working with music teachers and focusing
on education has been a most rewarding path.
I have
performed pieces on the Disklavier and orchestrated them on the Clavinova, then
played those files in the PianoDisc system, (we have one installed on a Steinway
model B in our showroom). I can send live performances to my parents in
Montana. The Disklavier is truly a superior tool for both teaching and
entertainment.
Best
Wishes,
[Douglas J. Miller] -----Original Message-----
From: Carol Beigel [mailto:carolrpt@...]
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 2:07 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [disklavier] Re: piano accompaniments (and Happy Holidays)
I am the grown-up version of the 6-year-old who fell in love with my piano
teacher's player piano. It would take me another 30 years before I bought a
broken one to take apart and restore. To this day, I am awed by the
simplicity of the design of the 5-valve air motor that sent a constant air
pressure through the tracker bar that played the paper rolls. How five
little bends in an axle could be so brilliant!
I spent 10 years rebuilding pianos, using a Pianocorder vorsetzer to test
and break in the new strings. Those Pianocorder cassette tapes were the
first translations of the paper piano rolls into electronic form. The
vorsetzer was a collection of 80 pinball solenoids hanging upside down that
would play the piano keys. The thing was adjustable to any keyboard height,
and also played the pedals.
Eventually, the global economy made rebuilding American pianos not very
competitive with new Asian piano prices so I became a field tuner/technician
for a Steinway dealer for the next 9 years of my career. I have been
happily self employed for the past 6 years here in the Washington, D.C. area
with a specialty in electronic midi player piano service - especially the
Disklavier. I own a fine Yamaha U1 upright piano with a MarkIIXG
Disklavier.
My baby grandson seems to have more than a casual interest in my keyboard
and piano. When he stays over we always have to play the Disklavier before
he goes to bed. So I am motivated to learn more about music and how it is
made in hopes of encouraging perhaps the next little Mozart!
Carol Beigel
crbrpt@...
>From: "Douglas J. Miller"
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To:
>Subject: RE: [disklavier] Re: piano accompaniments (and Happy Holidays)
>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:06:52 -0800
>
>Dear Ms. Beigel,
>
>Thank you for the wonderful email about learning piano / music theory! You
> >are so right! . . .
>
>Who are you, and from where do you hail?
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