Disklavier

For those in this group who work for Yamaha, I'd like to suggest a feature for future firmware revisions.

I frequently sit at the piano and start improvising.  Every so often, I would like to go back and record the last minute or so.

It would be very cool if the piano was always silently recording what you were playing (much like the DVR on your TV).  At any time, you could press the rewind button, go back to a certain point, and listen to (or save as a song) from that point forward.

This would be an extremely useful feature that it seems would be very simple to implement in firmware.  The midi messages are a small amount of data to buffer. Such a feature would cause a huge number of songwriters to want a disklavier.

I realize that I could just always start recording before I play, but then I would have to go through the very long song and edit out just the parts that I like.

I am giving this idea to you for free with the understanding that if you do add it to your pianos, you will include it as a free firmware update on the DKC-850 and other current models, and not make us buy a new piano or module to get it :)