Disklavier

Hi,

Have the same situation here.  May I suggest a cheap and small 
laptop (I use a tiny old Sony Vaio which is a PIII-500) with a 
wireless PCMCIA card and an external USB MIDI by the piano.  

I use Media Player 9 to play midi files from the server to the 
piano, and of course with a pair of (good) active loudspeakers 
connected to the portable we can also play music (we copied all our 
CDs to WMA files on the same server).

My next plan is to glue a hook arrangement to the back of the screen 
of the portable (the "top" when closed), so that I can hook it over 
the front of the (upright) piano, rather like the way a traditional 
music rack hangs.  Then it will close up against the piano, and just 
flick open to rest slightly above the keyboard, which would be nice 
(instead of on top of the piano).  And the wires (power and midi) 
can be fed out the back of the piano and hidden.

And of course this laptop is good for recording live performance -- 
then I normally use my main PC for editing and corrections.

When you think that a perfectly capable notebook for playback would 
be no more than a couple of hundred bucks, plus a wireless card, it 
probably wouldn't be worth the price of wireless MIDI?  And 
remember, with wireless MIDI you won't be able to change songs or 
even stop the tune from the room the piano's in!