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Re: What happened to Yamaha's Global JukeBox?

2002-12-20 by sureshmysore <suresh@escape.ca>

Try    http://www.yamaha-xg.com/free/index.html 



--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "jqw2 <johnq_10@s...>"
<johnq_10@s...> wrote:
> 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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