Disklavier

Greetings Robert, Carol and Group,

You quote from the manual confirms my suspicion that proper adjustment
will eliminate pedal thumping. I found it difficult to believe that
Yamaha would sell pianos that could not be adjusted properly. It is
just the same with the old reproducing pianos and with any other
straight piano too. The quality of the performance is directly related
to the adjustment and maintenance that the instrument receives.

I was interested in making a program to modify midi files if it would
help with certain models and certain music but I do not want to do
this if it encourages people to leave their instruments incorrectly
adjusted.

Regarding the playing of music other than Yamaha's, I have to
disagree. There is no excuse for not supporting standard MIDI
conventions. It is unreasonable to expect everyone to make special
versions of their music to work with the current and future models and
their peculiarities. If Yamaha feels that they can produce better
results with their own music by taking advantage of features of their
system then that puts their music at an advantage and it should
increase sales for them as long as their recordings are good in other
respects. To design their systems to play other standard formats in an
inferior way is manipulative and sleezy.

I am thinking about buying a DKV or a Pianodisc so that I can play a
variety of music from piano rolls and other sources. I have several
customers who have done just this and most of them have chosen
Pianodisc over DKV for this very reason.


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