Disklavier

A Mark II Disklavier needs a working floppy drive even if upgrading to the  DKC850.  These floppy disk drives are still available from Yamaha.  Sounds like you need a Disklavier tech and Yamaha will also recommend one.  Their number is:  800-854-1569.

Carol Beigel

On Feb 14, 2012, at 6:25 PM, "robertm" <morrisonpiano@...> wrote:

> I have a C7 with this Disklavier, the floppy disk is the original 360K single density version and is now unable to read floppies. 
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> I contacted my Yamaha dealer, who said that I was out of luck--but I've searched the archives on this site, where it appears that I should have the ability to replace this box with a newer box that has USB capability. Is this correct? I told my piano tech, who is going to a Yamaha event shortly and he plans to try to get the straight scoop here. 
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> Note I am not really interested in another add-on box that works through MIDI--MIDI has never worked cleanly on my piano, and the solenoid letoff is too clipped, leading to rather poor reproduction of playing. My understanding is that this is a design issue fixed in later versions of the Disklavier, rather than being an adjustment issue (my tech has done several adjustment sequences to try to fix this without success).
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> Am I understanding this correctly?
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> Thank you, Robert Morrison
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