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Re: [disklavier] Need a volume fix
2004-07-28 by PianoBench@aol.com
I forgot to mention 2 other important issues: (1) Disklavier calibration and (2) piano voicing.
Your instrument may not be calibrated properly, in which case your Disklavier technician may be help to provide some volume relief. Also, your hammers may be rather hard due to previous wear or to the previous owner having asked a technician to brighten the voicing of the instrument. Regardless, a good technician can usually make a piano much more mellow by filing and softening the hammer felt.
Regards,
PianoBench
In a message dated 7/28/04 12:37:09 PM, jeffb@mccabecapital.com writes:
My 1990 disklavier C3 (wagon controller) was just delivered
yesterday. Luckily, it came with about 40 disks. Unfortunately, the
thing plays these disks very loud. So loud, in fact, that my wife is
very disappointed with my purchase decision. From what I understand,
this is a fairly common complaint, even with the volume on the
disklavier turned to -10.
In the interest of marital harmony, is there any way to take an
existing Yamaha disk and modify the files to decrease the volume?
I've looked through past messages and played around with some of the
utility files posted on this group, but I can't seem to figure things
out. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, is there anyone who has had
success in this regard?
I was thinking that I could use the program Veloset to decrease the
volume of some of the files. Perhaps I can use the various utilities
to copy the files to my computer, convert the ESEQ files to MIDI,
decrease the volume using Veloset, convert back to ESEQ, then save to
new disk. Would this work? I'm having trouble even opening the
EEXPLORE program...I get an error message and the program is forced
to close. (I'm running Windows 2000 Professional at work.)
I'd greatly appreciate any help.
Thanks!
Jeff Bagley