Disklavier

Sounds like a great work around.  maybe better than
using the original disk at all.  if it works don't fix
it.


--- Rik Vig <rvig@...> wrote:
> 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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