| -----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
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