From sevush@rcn.com Mon Oct 22 17:00:09 2001
Subject:RE: clone spotting

For the record, anything Ray Kurzweil markets is the greatest of its kind.
Why else would he bother?

They didn't use a linear 12 bit format, they used a proprietary 8 or 10 bit
floating point format. It was slickly referred to as "holding 12 bits of
information", which could occur on a Tuesday when the moon was full.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toby Hart Dyke [mailto:toby@hartdyke.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 6:55 PM
> To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [CWSG] clone spotting
>
> No they haven't! The first Kurzweil musical instrument was
> the K250 (in
> 1984), which was noted for having the first reasonable
> sampled piano sound
> (12-bit samples). Ray Kurzweil started the company apparently at the
> instigation of Stevie Wonder. He had been impressed at
> Kurzweil's talking
> book, a device which read printed pages out loud (ever
> wondered where that
> album title came from?)
>
> Toby
>
> At 10:27 PM 10/22/2001 +0000, "Dan Pothaar"
> wrote:
> >In regards to the Kurzweil question...
> >
> >Kurzweil makes great acoustic pianos.....have been for
> years. In fact I
> >believe they were a piano company before they got into keyboards.
> >They make some of the best uprights as well....(although...I
> personally
> >don't like uprights) Their mid-market grands are the best
> on the market for
> >the price in my opinion.
>
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