Disklavier

Got a surprise phone call today from an owner of a Disklavier 
upright piano, which over the phone he started up playing my 
Wurlitzer 125 band organ midi files.    Quite astonishing to 
hear this over the phone.    

He has a little Yamaha TG100 synth tone generator sitting on top 
of his piano, with a pair of small hi-end speakers also on top 
at each end, and a bass reverb type speaker on the floor behind. 
It is hooked to the Disklavier with a midi-in/out cable.  

He had downloaded my batch 22, within which is a pair of zip 
files - W125_Known and W125_Unknown.    Not knowing the 
significance of individual zip files, everything was dumped into 
a single directory.   He loaded floppies with ~40 files each.

He had his TG100 turned on while playing my files, and somewhere 
in the middle, it sprang to life when one of my W125 files 
entered the queue and "played" all the non-piano voices in 
synch with the piano, which somehow is able to sort out 
the melody alone.   

See also a news item from 1992 about this newly introduced 
device:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1992_Oct_19/ai
_12711482

Amazing!    Just never know what will emerge through the magic 
and power of the internet.    Anybody else discover this?

Regards,

Terry

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