Disklavier

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 4:15 AM, scruffy93063 <scruffy93063@...> wrote:
> I just recently saw on EBay the new drives that are designed to go into a floppy drive slot on a computer.  They are actually a USB port that is for a memory stick.  I hesitate to spend the $75 or so if the software is not compatible with the Yamaha software.  I have looked for something like this for quite a while and it has recently become available.  I am quite attached to my Clavinova 209 and did not want to replace it just for ease of file transfer.  Does anyone in the group have experience with this?
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> Beth

I'm not sure what you are asking; I have a device in my computer that
gives me USB slots, memory card slots etc. in place of a floppy drive,
and I use a USB floppy drive most of the time if I need one (though it
doesn't cover all uses).

Are you referring to this kind of device:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/720kb-2DD-Floppy-Emulator-Yamaha-Clavinova-CVP-/180649534795?pt=PCC_Drives_Storage_Internal&hash=item2a0f8d254b#ht_2258wt_907

and whether that can be safely used as a replacement in your
Clavinova? Based on the advertisement I would say yes, as long as you
only need 720kb disk emulation (not sure whether you can use high
density 1.44mb disks in that Clavinova - my disklavier certainly can).

Regards

James