Disklavier

>RE: CD player with PianoDisc 128+
>
>Yes, it does work and very well. I just got a little portable player and
>made a little shelf for it under the front edge of the piano and hooked
>it up. I used a pair of  self amplified speakers for one side of the
>output of the player, which is split to each speaker and the other side
>goes to the PD unit. I use the PD cd's and all works Very Well.
>
>Jim

Yes that capability is built in, just plug it in and go. You can use an
inexpensive portable CD player as mentioned above, or tie it into a CD
changer and load it up with as many CD's as it holds. Use the remote for
the CD player to control it. PianoDisk also has a unit that they sell that
can be mounted under the piano, just like the floppy that you have.

Interestingly, last year around this time there was a thread on DUG about
whether Yamaha had a CD player option. The answer from one of the Yamaha
techs was that there were many drawbacks to using a CD to drive a player
piano. There are some drawbacks such as not being able to slow the tempo
down or transpose. This is outweighed by the fact that you can get some
CD's that have vocals as well as real orchestral accompaniment.

Ironically, at the NAMM show earlier this month Yamaha introduced some new
models, which incoporate guess what-a CD player mounted under the regular
floppy drive mechanism.

Glenn Grafton
Grafton Piano & Organ Co.
Souderton PA
http://www.dprint.com/grafton/
gleng@...
800-272-5980

The box said "Requires Windows 95, or better." So I bought a Macintosh.