Disklavier

Mark wrote:
> Sorry to those who were annoyed by my *KEEP PRIVATE E-MAIL PRIVATE 
> *blast to all on the list.
>
> I came back for being away from my e-mail for a week and had scads of 
> dug e-mail to sort through. The private conversations notwithstanding, I 
> had to sort through the other posts that had no subject line description 
> of DK model to allow me to use my e-mail filter.
>
>   
You might be surprised at what you see in the headers. I filter for the 
disklavier group using the rule:
 "sender contains disklavier@yahoogroups.com" OR "To or CC contains 
disklavier@yahoogroups.com"
I do similar things for the Google Groups and the dug group.

> If we could do better at putting MK II,  Mark II, MK III, Mark III, MK 
> IV, Mark IV, MK 4,  etcetera in the subject line, this list would be 
> much easier to use. Those of us with Mark III's and older do not have 
> the Disklavier Radio and other MK IV features that are commonly 
> discussed. This discrepancy creates an us (old DK's) versus them (the 
> newest DK) on this list. Many of us wonder why we paid so much for our 
> DK's when Yamaha seems to sell us a new DK so we can get the usability 
> we would like. Yamaha could provide some level of upgradability for us 
> but chooses to ignore us. We do not need the limits of our older DK's  
> constantly demonstrated by the discussion of the DK 4's.
>   

I'm not sure I see a "them vs us" here, but I do know what you mean 
about upgrades. I have a MarkIIXG upright with DCD1 which gives me 99% 
of the functionality of a MarkIII upright. There is no MarkIV upright, 
nor are there any plans to create one, so I'm stuck at this level 
anyway, but it would be really nice if Yamaha was to produce a MarkIV 
control unit (ala DSR1) which provided the hard drive, CD drive, 
wireless support, Disklavier Radio, PDA control, new synth sounds, etc. 
They wont though, so I'm stuck with an early 90's PC soundcard (the 
DB51XG) in a black, 280KG, \ufffd8,000 UK box :-)
> If Yamaha makes different DK's for different markets, they could also 
> make upgrade modules, whether they be hardware or software.
>   

I guess they would make far more markup on the new Piano than on the 
upgrade model and so don't see the benefit in spending time and money 
doing it. It's quite interesting that Yamaha, as far as I can see, still 
haven't release the source code to all of the GPL components they've 
used in the MarkIV software though. Perhaps the GPL doesn't apply in 
Japan? :)