Disklavier

ADJUSTING

I agree both with Richard and Eric. Of course a computer is very
important for a disklavier. I can not enjoy my disklavier fully without
my computer. But in life we have always to adapt and to adjust to
circumstances. A computer is not a nice cabinet or a beautiful ornament
for a livingroom. A computer is very ugly and everybody will agree. So
we  have to adjust to circumstances. Richard can make a mess in his
livingroom and nobody complains. Eric however wants to please his wife
and that is the most proper thing to do. So he is adjusting.

Do you know that I slept for two years in a tiny poptent that I could
carry on my back while walking through Europe, the Middle East, Africa
and North and South America. My only instrument was a very small
harmonica or mouth organ that I could put in my packsack. I had to
adjust.
In later years I traveled for more than five years with a small truck
that carried a little camper on top. Now I could take an accordion with
me. I had to adjust.

After a lot of happy and less happy events I started late in life as a
woman a small construction company without knowing anything about it. I
did not even know the difference between a two by four and a two by six,
My beautiful piano I had sold already years before. Finally, at the age
of 65, I was able to buy a new piano, the cheapest one I could get,
because business was number one. I had to adjust. Later in life I was
able to buy a disklavier.

I am now eighty and with an artificial knee and and an artificial hip I
feel like a very old car with new parts. But because of my adjusting and
puting business first and pleasure in the second place I was able to
make a succes out of my small company. So I was finally also able to buy
something for myself.
But again I had to adjust. Out of my living room I made a huge studio
with a two klavier organ. a disklavier, two digital pianos, a huge
stereo system, lots of music books, books about musicians, sheet music
and of course ugly things like a computer with scanner and printers.
I became friends with president elect George Bush, a very nice guy by
the way, who will be an excellent president. He can afford both, a huge
studio and a huge livingroom. He has his ranchhouse in Texas but will
live in the White House where is enough space for everything. But
because he is a human being he has also, like everybody else, to adapt
and to adjust himself to circumstances.

Now another thing. Are we, as disklavier owners, not very fortunate that
were able to buy such a beautiful and expensive instrument? And are we
not fortunate that we get such excellent service? What about George
Litterst also known as piano bench who is doing far more than his duty
with helping us to solve our problems. Is he not tremendous? What about 
Daniel Klebanov such an unselfish man, who with his own time and with
his own money maintains for us such a beautiful and useful website. Is
he not great for helping us so much?  

Let us not too much complain but be thankful. I am very thankful for the
professional and not so professional musicians whose music with Daniel's
help we can play on our disklaviers. I have a proposal. Let everybody
try to do something. Not everybody can be a professional pianist or the
president of the United States. But everybody can adjust and do
something to help and please others.

A happy New Year to all of you!

Clarita

Another solution to the computer "problem":
Use a laptop with a MIDI PCMCIA card placed discreetly on a small table
adjacent to the piano. That's been my solution and it works well.