Disklavier

> ...of France - any idea where to purchase a correct cable, or even 
> the type of cable needed.

Now I'm jealous... :-)  

The cable you need is a plain MIDI cable (probably only easily 
available from a music shop, anywhere that sells nasty electronic 
keyboards might do).  Or a very large computer superstore in France, 
although as it's more a 'music' cable than a 'computer' cable, most 
computer shops don't know about them.

The other thing you need, of course, is a MIDI port on your laptop, 
unless you already have one, which would be extremely unusual.  I 
use a Sound Blaster Extigy (which is an external sound-card that 
plugs in to any computer and has MIDI ports on it, amongst other 
things).  Others on here will be able to suggest other alternative 
MIDI ports for a laptop, particularly if you have an extender device 
(docking station?) which has a joystick port on it...

Regards


Charles