Disklavier

Larry:

Thanks for the advise! That sounds like a great way replace the drive
without too great of an expense. I'm afraid that my floppy drive also fell
prey to unsupervised (and probably unorthodox) use by my kids. My youngest,
who's 10 now, used to shove disks in without looking to see which end went
first when he was about 3 years old. Oh well, we had a lot of fun and all 3
kids grew up loving music. I'll keep an eye out on eBay for an old Yamaha
sequencer unit.

I'm using a novel workaround right now that cost me $0! Todd Muncy told me
about DKV Utilities, which I used on a PC to make copies of my Disklavier
disks and then converted to MIDI files. Then I set up an old Macintosh SE30
computer that was growing cobwebs in the garage and hooked it to my Control
Wagon via MIDI. With an old copy of Opcode Mastertracks Pro sequencer
software running, we are now listening to the Disklavier once again. Its
working so well (I've also been downloading tons of MIDI piano files from
the internet) that I'm thinking of painting the Mac's case glossy black to
match the piano and leave it sitting on top of the Control Wagon. The best
thing of all is that everything is now playing from a hard disk. We only use
the Mac's HD Floppy Drive to load on new MIDI files.

Best regards, Rik

From: Larry McKenzie <lkmckenzie@...>
Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:45:19 -0800 (PST)
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: Bad Floppy Drive


I had the same problem with my disk drive in a MX-85.
Maybe because my 18 month old daughter thought it
needed to be fed chereos years ago.  Anyway, I called
our old friend mark Wisner at Yamaha and he recomended
that if I was too cheap to buy a new drive from Yamaha
(around $100.00) then there were a lot of useable
drives in old Yamaha midi sequencers.

I went to ebay and bought a old MDR-2 for $12.00, took
the drive out of it and put it in my piano and it
worked great.  Has been going strong for 2 years now.


Of course I can't guarantee that it would work for
your's but it's a thought.  I looked on ebay just now
and there are no such boxes listed but they do come up
frequently as people clean out their closets.  At the
time he said a drive from a DOU-10 or a QX-3 would
work as well.

Good luck, Larry...


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