Disklavier

Hi,

Sorry I don't get on this site as much as I should. The Disklavier is only a 
"built in" from the factory.  It is a very, very precise piece of equipment 
and we would have NO control over who said they could install a retrofit.  There 
will be a lot of exciting PeC files coming your way over the next few weeks 
and I hope to announce soon two additional competitions that will be using 
Disklavier during this year, resulting in more classic and jazz files. Pianobench 
did, in fact, lose sleep at the recently concluded PeC audition round.

Mike Bates
Yamaha

I may have misunderstood when skim reading someone else's post.

However, since you work for Yamaha, I was hoping you might be able to 
relay a suggestion on to the powers that be.  I believe that there is a 
definite market for the disklavier pro features on some of your 
less-expensive models.  I think you could stand to make a lot more 
money on the pro technology than you do now.  I, for one, would pay an 
extra $5000 to have a DA1APRO or a DC1APRO, but the pro option is only 
available starting with the much more expensive DC3PRO and DC3APRO 
models.  Please inform those involved with these decisions that there 
is a market for this.  Most of it has to do with the way you market it. 
  If people actually know that there is such thing as the pro features 
(which I might add most local salesmen don't even understand), there 
are plenty of folks out there who always want to have the latest and 
greatest features.  These are the same folks that upgrade their 
computer or their car every year.  But my guess is that most of them 
are middle to upper-middle class, and $40,000 for a DC3PRO is probably 
beyond the price that most people can justify for a piano, unless they 
are filthy rich.

Thanks,

Carl Youngblood

On Jan 26, 2004, at 12:31 PM, bonsaimike@aol.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry I don't get on this site as much as I should. The Disklavier is 
> only a "built in" from the factory.  It is a very, very precise piece 
> of equipment and we would have NO control over who said they could 
> install a retrofit.  There will be a lot of exciting PeC files coming 
> your way over the next few weeks and I hope to announce soon two 
> additional competitions that will be using Disklavier during this 
> year, resulting in more classic and jazz files. Pianobench did, in 
> fact, lose sleep at the recently concluded PeC audition round.
>
> Mike Bates
> Yamaha