Disklavier

Let him play with it.  Encourage him to play around but not pound on it.  
The only problem I had with a disklavier in the house and a little one was 
that she tried to feed it cherios through the disk drive door.  For a 
"small" fee the disk drive was restored to it's pristine condition and I 
removed it from the under the keyboard location and set it on a shelf above 
her reach.  She is 10 years old now and a budding pianist herself.  I was 
conerned that she would not want to learn since it was so easy to just pop a 
disk in and let it do it herself, but that seems to just encourage her and 
her older brother who is also a good pianist and a very good bassist.


>From: "Stacy C" <stacyc@...>
>Reply-To: disklavier@egroups.com
>To: <disklavier@egroups.com>
>Subject: [disklavier] Introduction and a question
>Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:44:39 -0800
>
>I found this egroup a few weeks ago after we purchased our Disklavier.
>
>It was delivered today! Yeah! Anyway we purchased a Yamaha MX1 or MX1Z I
>can't remember at the moment but the difference between the two are subtle.
>
>I've already downloaded a bunch of Christmas and Billy Joel midi files that
>were in the egroups files, can't wait to give them a try.
>
>Anyway, my question concerns my two children, mainly my youngest who is 4
>1/2. I was wondering what sort of resistence this piano would have to just
>letting him "play" with it. He's been around a piano at grandpa's house and
>knows not to bang at the keys.
>Actually as I type he is tapping out "Three Blind Mice", which is far 
>better
>than anything I can play :-)
>
>So will he be okay just playing around at the piano, or should I limit him
>to when we get an instructor in here to teach us all? I'm afraid if I won't
>let him play I'll squelch his love of music but at the same time I don't
>want him to damage our investment.
>
>Thanks
>~Stacy
>
>
>

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