Hi Chuck,
hope so, we moved houses a few months later. They probably had a big going away celebration with out us ( haahaa)
Actually they would have thought they were losing a talented pianist ( little did they know), it was the piano.
It was an amazing instrument. Looked just like your normal everyday acoustic upright , except for this tiny little black box up top. That's where the disks and the electronics resided. The old player piano's only played, this one could actually record. Even had midi in & out so that I could connect it to an external sequencer. Very revolutionry for the day ( 1988/89) Allowed me to get rid of my digital piano, which were pretty bad back in those days. Don't know how I managed to talk hubby into that one, as I already had a baby grand.
Unfortunately I sold it well before we decided to move to a smaller home. Couldn't fit the baby grand, but we would have had room for the disklavier as it didn't take up that much more space, than the pr602 does, it was only taller. Still regret having sold it , as digitals, as good as they are, still don't sound the same as a real piano.

One advantage with a digital, though, is that they have headphone sockets, so,
1. no annoying the neighbours while practising,
2. no need for neighbours to sign a petition for you to move houses and annoy someone else ( only joking, thought I'd get in first Chuck ( haahaa)
And they don't need tuning.
Used to cost a fair bit having 2 piano's tuned every 6 months.

I had some wonderful disks for the disklavier, artists like Chick Corea. Liberace, Elton John, Steve Allen, etc etc
And a heap of Classical. Quite a few were recorded by the actual artist themselves ( the Artist Series), wheras the majority I think must have been converted from player piano rolls. You could tell which was which as the piano rolls didn't have the same depth of feeling.

Ah well, life goes on.

best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Chuck Piper:
[B]Hi Rikki,

You remarked: "Actually, they should have been thankfull, at least they didn't have to listen to me practising ( haahaa).
Must check one day and see if all those midifiles survived ( doubt it)."