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What happened to Yamaha's Global JukeBox?

2002-12-18 by jqw2 <johnq_10@schwaller.org>

I have here an article I saved from the Octobr 13, 1997 issue of Web 
Week magazine.  There's a long article about Yamaha's Global JukeBox, 
and a picture of the Yamaha Artist Services office in Manhattan.  The 
subtitle says, "Eric Johnson built a Web site for Yamaha to extend 
the technology of the company's digital Disklavier Grand pianos."
  
Here's some more info; it seems the MIDI files were searchable in an 
IBM DB2 database: http://www.visionnet.com/pdf/YamahaGlobalMusic.pdf

The Web site www.globaljukebox.com doesn't seem to exist anymore.  
But what happened to it and all its contents?  Where's the 
database?  There must be MIDI files on a hard disk somewhere.

Who can tell the story here?

Thanks - John Q.

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