Disklavier

Everything electronic has changed in the last 6 years!  A savings of $6000,
in my opinion,  is not a good value to choose a Mark I over a Mark III.  A
Mark I with added tone generator still needs old style 720k floppy disks and
does not play standard MIDI files from the floppy drive.

On the other hand, the Mark III has everything; uses HD disks, has 16 memory
disks, plays standard MIDI files in both format 0 and format 1, has built-in
audio with speakers, over 600 sounds in the XG  tone generator, CD drive,
Silent system and those solenoids are much more sensitive in reproducing
piano performances.  Also, the Mark III will play Que Time, Smart Key and
PianoSmart.

No disklavier in piano mode only is quiet enough to play during
"conversation".  A disklavier will only play as quietly as a real piano
player sitting at the keyboard.  However, the Mark III can be put in Silent
Mode, then the volume turned up.  What you hear is the piano tone (and
Ensemble tones) coming through the speakers as audio, and this is infinitely
controllable like the audio on your stereo system.  If people are engaged in
conversation, no one will notice that the piano sound is really coming from
the speakers mounted underneath the piano and not from  the strings because
the keys are moving.

It's like the difference between a new Cadillac with OnStar system, and an
older model you have to set the gap in the spark plugs yourself!!

Carol Beigel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gewartowski, John" <john.gewartowski@...>
To: "Disklavier Users Group (E-mail)" <dug@...>; "Disklavier
Yahoo Group (E-mail)" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: [disklavier] Mark I Not Quiet Enough? Different Solenoids Than Mark
III?


> I just heard from a Disklavier salesman over the weekend that the Mark I
> (with separate add-on tone generator not included in control unit)
solenoids
> are different than those on the latest Mark III.
>
> He stated that many people have been unhappy with how quietly they could
> have their Disklaviers play because the solenoids are louder, and the
piano
> just won't play as quiet as a new Mark III.  Is this anyone's experience
> with the older Disklaviers?  Is the piano too loud to have playing in the
> background for party conversation in the same room (5' 3" C1)?
>
> Also, he stated that the older solenoids would never be capable of playing
> the Cue Time music or wiggle themselves as instructional aids (Pianosoft
> Smart) because of the older solenoids.  I thought I could just upgrade my
> control unit in the future to the CD type, because the innards are the
same
> since the beginning.
>
> Has the fiber optics changed at all between a Disklavier produced in 1997
> (Mark I) and the latest Mark III's?
>
> Thanks for any information you can shed on the subject.  I tend not to
trust
> salesmen completely, especially when they're trying to talk me out of
> purchasing a used one for $6,000 less than new.
>
> John W. Gewartowski
> Sr. Product Support Engineer, Product Technical Services
> Tyco Healthcare Retail Group
> 610-878-3423
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