A customer recently asked me to upgrade his DKC-500RXG floppy disk drive to a Nalbantov USB floppy disk emulator. I’ve recommended the Nalbantov emulator for many years. It has no moving parts and a capacity of 1000 floppy disks on a single USB stick, and is an excellent replacement for the original floppy disk drive. … Read more
In my Disklavier Upgrades guide article, I refer several times to DKC-850 conversion cables. These are the cables you use to connect your older Yamaha Disklavier to a newer DKC-850 control unit (or a DKC‑800 converted to act like a DKC‑850). The original conversion cables were provided by Yamaha as part of the DKC-850 upgrade … Read more
This list is designed to help you understand the upgrade options for your Yamaha Disklavier. It can be confusing, so start here! As an authorized Yamaha Service Center, I receive this question often, both from local customers here in Maine and from visitors to this site. No matter what model of Disklavier you have, it’s … Read more