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Re: [disklavier] Mark IV disklavier no longer driving acoustic piano

2011-11-02 by Mark Burby

Hi Lloyd

I'm sure you'll get more technical advice if needed but I have encountered this 'glitch' with my MkIV once in a while. The way to resolve this was to completely power down the MkIV (so that the power light turns off). Once off, unplug the piano and after a minute or so boot it back up. Crude but effective. If this fails, go to the settings option on the handheld and restore the piano to its factory default settings - this shouldn't affect any music stored on your hard drive.

I'm not sure what causes it to do this but the DKV is a complex piece of circuitry and mechanics and I am simply glad that most common problems can be resolved by the above.

Hope that helps.
Mark

On 21 October 2011 10:02, tunefulwolf <lloyd.randolph@post.harvard.edu> wrote:

My Disklavier has stopped driving the acoustic portion of my Yamaha baby grand piano. I suspect the problem arises from some settings issue -- but I haven't (at least intentionally) changed any settings. I can still play midi files in quiet mode. And the acoustic piano works fine when I do not attempt to invoke the Disklavier. The Disklavier does not drive the piano no matter how I attempt it: not through the handheld, not through DKVBrowser, and not through the media box mounted below the keyboard.

Any assistance in diagnosing and correcting this problem would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Lloyd Randolph


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