Disklavier

I am an owner of a Mark III.  My todler broke off the CD tray on my 
unit as well.  I went to the local Yamaha dealer and he order a 
Yamaha cover that consisted of a new bracket to hold the controller 
to the bottom of the piano, with a locking plastic cover.  The remote 
works throug the plastic.

My only criticism was that the holes in the new bracket do not 
exactly fit the existing holes in the piano.  I fixed this by 
drilling a new hole in the bracket -- not into the piano...


--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Spencer_Lists <lists@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings Mark,
> 
> from reading other postings, it looks like there may be no stock 
plastic cover for the control box. however, there are plastic 
fabricators all over the place. TAP plastics (not by any means the 
best but they have chain retail outlets all over the place) does 
simple fabrication jobs. unless you can come up with an elegant 
design and specify it with materials that they have on hand (acrylic 
and polycarbonate clear plastic and ready made hinges and possibly a 
lock hasp but you could install one afterwards) they are not likely 
to be able to design it unless there is a particularly motivated 
employee at a particular branch. if they can't do any more, they 
should be able to cut and fold a simple cover. they even have laser 
cutting machines at most branches so they can make complicated cuts 
to a sheet and fold it into a box. the plastics can also be cut into 
simple rectangles and solvent glued together. 
> 
> Sunday, December 2, 2007, 10:24:59 PM, you wrote:
> > Hi there,
> 
> > I was wondering if anyone's heard of or seen a locking plastic 
cover 
> > for the face of the electronic pieces of the Mark III unit. I 
have two
> > toddlers who find it amusing to stick things in the disk drive. 
> 
> > We were at the Grand Californian Hotel at Disneyland, and saw 
that 
> > their piano in the lobby had a locking plastic cover over the 
entire 
> > face of the area where you put the CD and floppy drives. (Not the 
> > keyboard; just the electronic parts).
> 
> > Am hoping something like that is for sale, but haven't seen 
anything on
> > the Yamaha site or online.
> 
> > Any thoughts? Has anyone had this custom made, or is home piano 
> > security not a big issue?  
> 
> > Mark
> 
> >  
> 
> -- 
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