Disklavier

Thank you SO MUCH for the information and education. - Rik

From: PianoBench@...
Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:29:59 EST
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Bad Floppy Drive


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

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