Disklavier

It sounds as though your room may be too live or too small. If so, the 
piano will also sound too loud if you play it from the keyboard.

Don't despair.  The option of having a sound-absorbing blanket or 
baffles installed may work well.  See 
http://www.pianosupply.com/acoustic/ for some examples.

As suggested by others, voicing for a quieter sound is a possibility, 
but may sacrifice the crystal-like tones that distinguish the C3.

Adding carpeting (if the floor is bare) and drapes to the room will also 
help.  The drawback is that most fabrics and upholstery absorb the 
higher pitched sounds more than the lower pitched sounds.

You can try playing with MIDI note velocities, but I expect you will be 
disappointed since you are already running the DKV Volume at -10.  With 
the DKV Volume set at -10, you are effectively setting the note velocity 
of all reproduced notes to about 22.  In other words, a note of velocity 
95 will sound with the same intensity as the same note at velocity 22. 
That means that the dynamic range so artfully incorporated by the 
performer will be completely flat--making for dull music.

To help you sort these ideas out, I suggest consulting an experienced 
piano technician.

jeffb0413 wrote:
> 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
> 
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