Joseph Tushinsky owned Sony Superscope Marantz and is responsible for buying rights to and manufacturing Pianocorder which was a system developed by folks at Teledyne. The reason Pianocorder did not take off as it should have, is the Japanese Yen to Dollar ratio just about ate his lunch at the time he was poised to spend $5 Million for advertising. The advertising never happened and the Pianocorder languished until it began to really take off just before the time Yamaha bought them, or as we heard Emerson bought them and Yamaha then bought them. Yamaha wanted the tape library very badly but found out once they purchased the company, that the recording rights still belonged to QRS and they could not have them. D.L. Bullock www.thepianoworld.com St. Louis
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