Disklavier

Good evening, everyone.

In a message dated 12/18/02 6:32:45 PM, John Q. writes:

<< 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? >>

I believe that Yamaha Artist Services has reorganized itself in a variety of 
ways. At least for now, Global Jukebox is no more. I would not be surprised 
if the concept is reincarnated in the future, but I have no details on any 
possibilities.

Global Jukebox was a great idea. However, the IBM DB2 database was extremely 
slow at retreiving data.

Regards,
PianoBench