Disklavier

Good afternoon, everyone.

In a message dated 3/26/03 4:20:22 PM, rvig@... writes:

<< I have a Disklavier Grand Piano (acoustic) with the separate big 

black Control Wagon and a big umbilical cord that joins them. 

Over 12 years old, it is a G2 R 49XXXXX series piano and the 

separate Control Wagon model is a DKW10. The floppy drive 

stopped reading and writing diskettes about 5 years ago and we 

were cut off from our music collection. I've tried to get a 

replacement floppy, but the local Yamaha repairman can't find 

one and it's not a generic PC floppy mechanism. I recently got 

frustrated and hooked up an old Mac computer running 

sequencer software and we are now enjoying the player 

functions again and an endless collection of piano music in MIDI 

file format from the internet. Have any other members with old 

floppy-based systems had drive problems and found a solution 

to replace it? Ultimately I can live without it, but I would like to 

access all of the PianSoft disks I collected over the years. If all 

else fails, I'll buy Geibler's conversion software and salvage my 

Disklavier disk collection as MIDI files. >>

Did your Disklavier technician contact Yamaha about a replacement part? I 
would try that first. If your technician does not know how to do that, call 
Yamaha Piano Service: (800) 854-1569 between 8:30-5:00 PST. Push 2 at the 
first menu choice and 2 at the second menu choice.

Keep in mind, however, that you might be better off adding a DSR1 to your 
control wagon (and thus saving the cost of a floppy drive that does not read 
high density disks). The DSR1 will have its own floppy drive that can read 
both the old double-density disks AND the newer high-density disks. In 
addition, it reads and writes Standard MIDI Files and has a built-in tone 
generator. In essence, the DSR1 will give you many crucial, modern features. 
It will connect to your control wagon with MIDI cables, and it includes an 
extra set of MIDI ports in case you also want to connect it to your computer.

Regards,
PianoBench