New computer software

[Delwin D Fandrich]

| -----Original Message-----
| From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 
| [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Mark Schecter
| Sent: May 08, 2008 9:56 AM
| To: stuka at mindspring.com; Pianotech List
| Subject: Re: New computer software
| 
| In about 1983, Kurzweil Music Systems circulated a PR video 
| of their flagship model 250, playing the Mozart 2 piano 
| Sonata in duo with a Steinway something. Their challenge, 
| "You can't tell the difference" was a bit overblown at the 
| time, but still, the recording was surprisingly effective, 
| especially since nothing like it had ever been attempted 
| before. That was 25 years ago.

At one of the NAMM shows I attended during the mid-1980s I sat in on a lecture
by Ray Kurzweil during which he predicted that within 10 years the "acoustic"
piano would be a thing of the past. By the mid-1990s, of course, Young Chang had
purchased the Kurzweil company either out of bankruptcy, or nearly so.

Del