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Connecting Yamaha Clavinova piano to Garageband on my Mac

I own two gorgeous but more-than-15-year-old Yamaha Clavinovas.   One's a CVP 209.   It's old enough that it has a floppy drive.   The over is a CLP--slightly newer with an original generation USB port.   Both have MIDI, fortunately. My partner asked me to record a few pieces of original music to be used as intro and outro on her webcasts.   I tried saving to the USB but the firmware is so old the move and copy functions don't work. So...how to use Garageband with these two digital/acoustic pianos. The first suggestion are headphone out to headphone/MIC jack on my MacAir.   To date, I've not been able to get Garageband to see the Yamaha this way. The second suggestion is to download the Yamaha drivers to the Mac.   This suggestion has failed me in two ways---first, all of the current drivers are USB-MIDI, and of course my old keyboards only have regular old historical MIDI.   Second, every one seems to agree that Garageband has entered the modern world, so, like

Jordan Weissman/Slate epitaph is the most noteworthy thing about Gary Cohn

Gary Cohn is some Goldman Sachs guy.   He took the Economics job in the Trump administration and lasted 14 months before he resigned yesterday.   That's a long time--he must be pretty determined. Many journalists have commented that he was supposed to get the job of Fed chief, but it wasn't offered to him--many think it was because he appeared to not support Trump's support of the white supremacist movement last summer.   Here's Slate's great epitaph for this indistinguishable banker : Gary Cohn: The man who swallowed the president’s racism and personal humiliation in order to guide tax cuts for his old employer at Goldman Sachs, and then quit over some steel tariffs. Wall Street is sure to welcome him back as a hero.