'older' digital piano in need of repair..

Date: December 28, 2009

Hi all,

In 2002, I purchased a decent digital piano on closeout from a mostly acoustic piano store (they were closing out their inventory of digitals and keyboards) and after 6 plus years of activity in a high school as the main rehearsal and performance piano, it gave out... I would like to give it a second chance on life if I were able to find anyone with expertise in fixing digital pianos in the Chicagoland area? It's a technics brand 88 key piano with a 3.5" floppy drive and 4 track sequencer (it was very valuable to preprogram the accomapaniments, as I direct and accompany our school's choirs) I would prefer to find someone local just to find out if it can be fixed for less than $500.00. Any leads out there?

Thanks!

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Gayle Rubinstein on December 29, 2009 9:10am

This won't help you, but the technology has changed and the prices of digitals get cheaper every year. Yamaha clavinova's are very inexpensive these days and you can get a basic one with enough bells and whistles for not all that much more than you are willing to pay for repairing the older one. Additionally, if you can get your hands on an old Yamaha Disk Orchestra DOU-10 through ebay or craigs list or somewhere, then you have a standalone sequencer, but they are old technology and use Double Density Floppy disks. I use them in the school where I teach.

Yamaha's are like workhorses. My first one I purchased 13 years ago and it works as good as the day it was purchased. Also, usually you can bargain with the sellers on the price of the digital pianos.

Good luck.

Gayle rubinstein

Stephen Stomps on December 29, 2009 9:12am

The Technics my school had is of the same vintage. I had some issue and the store sent out a contracted tech. He opened the top and exposed a simple row of contacts. There is not very much there and the main culprit, he told me, was paperclips and staples which cause short circuits. The actions is not like a piano action in its complexity. Your 3.5in floppy drive probably needs cleaning.

Technics left the keyboard market but circuits is circuits. Contacts the store from which you bought it or anyother dealer of keyboard dealer and ask who does their

work.

The tech who worked on my keyboard warned me to keep out of the instrument because there are things (that is the extent of my knowledge) which store a lot of voltage. Let the tech take out the paperclip.

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