Wow! That is some great information!!
Two other thoughts occurred to me when I looked through those amazing
documents.
1) If you can afford a Disklavier, you can
afford to have it fixed. Like buying a used car, you should always have in
the back of your head that you will need to do a major repair. Once you
factor in this most probable reality, do you still save money? I know how
to change the oil in my car, but I would actually lose a lot of money, skin,
risk the possibility of getting hurt, etc. than just paying $30 or so at Jiffy
Lube and have the situation taken of care of in minutes instead of hours.
The cost of having a proper floppy drive replaced by a Yamaha Disklavier tech is
probably in the neighborhood of $350.
2) Since floppy drive technology is on its
way out, and Disklaviers last a long, long time, those of us with units
older than the Mark IV should all be looking at playlist software to be run
from a computer attached to our Disklaviers. I myself have been
experimenting along these lines using both PC and MacBook laptops with USB MIDI
interfaces. There are even gadgets out there now that use Bluetooth and
other wireless interfaces that will send your MIDI files wirelessly to your
Disklavier from a computer, but I have not done any real time research on
them. I suspect someday in the future it will be possible to control your
DKV from your cell phone!!
I realize that not every DKV owner has access to
genuine Yamaha parts and a tech, and that this kind of information might be
helpful under those circumstances. But for those of us who do, I highly
recommend the genuine Yamaha repair!
Carol Beigel
----- Original Message -----From: Scott JacksonSent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 9:20 PMSubject: [disklavier] Re: PGG10RHave you seen articles such as the following?
Modifying a FDD for a Yamaha EL90
or
How to modify a standard PC floppy drive to be used as a Yamaha MDR
Someone with a little technical ability could try this idea for you.
Scott J
--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "allanz_2000" wrote:
>
>
> Please help because my Floppy drive is making too much hizzing sound
> and usually hangs often. Final question, is the floppy drive the same
> as the normal Pc floppy drive on my desktop PC? Where can I find
> guidelines on how to replace floppy drive of PGG10R. I guess it can be
> done by anybody with a computer hardware knowlegable if guided
> properly by Yamaha Technician.
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