Disklavier

If you buy either QRS or PianoDisc songs on FLOPPY
disks, they are compatible with a Disklavier.  When
MIDI files come on a CD, the MIDI part is encoded and
now locked on these new copy protection schemes.  You
don't really want the audio anyway, since you daughter
wants to do the singing.  I personally have found the
QRS floppies to be quite fine.

Carol Beigel

----- Original Message -----
From: "robjohan" <robjohan@...>
To: <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:14 AM
Subject: [disklavier] What other manufacturers' discs
(beyond Yamaha) are compatible with my Mark IV?


> I have a new Yamaha DGC1M4 Mark IV piano and I am
trying to find out
> what other manufacturer's discs will play in my
system. Are QRS,
> Pianodisc, Pianomation, and other non-Yamaha discs
compatible with the
> Mark IV? Does anyone have a list of non-yamaha
compatible discs?
> Freddy at Yamaha suggested I post this message on
this site. The main
> reason that I am asking is that we purchased the
Disklavier for my
> daughter who is an aspiring musical theater/singer
and we want her to
> be able to rehearse at home with pre-recorded piano
accompaniment. She
> will be starring in Annie Get Your Gun and Thoroughly
Modern Millie in
> a few months and I am having a hard time finding
these song files (I
> could not find them in any of the Yamaha discs). I
did find some of
> the Annie Get Your Gun songs on a QRS CD (Broadway
Musicals I QRS
> Catalog #400401) but there is a disclaimer that says
that "QRS Music
> CD's produced after 1/1/05 are designed expressly for
the use with QRS
> Pianomation Systems, and we do not guarantee
compatibility with other
> brands ..." Can anyone out there give us some
giudance? Thanks!
>
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