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- From: degood@hpavla.lf.hp.com (John DeGood)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 15:19:52 GMT
- Subject: Re: Keyboard instructional programs?
- Message-ID: <41330001@hpavla.lf.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Little Falls Site
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- In comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard, bell@nosc.mil writes:
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- > I have an IBM Clone with a Gravis Ultrasound and a Yamaha PSR300 keyboard and
- > would like to find a program that can use the MIDI ports to teach me how to
- > play the keyboard. I'm looking for something similar to the "Miracle" Piano
- > teaching system but I don't want to purchase the keyboard or interface card
- > that comes with it. Does anyone have any suggestions and/or recommendations?
-
- The April 1992 issue of Electronic Musician magazine reviewed 3 keyboard
- instruction packages for MS-DOS: Temporal Acuity Products' "PianoWorks"
- ($129), Fast Fingers Music Software's "Fast Fingers" ($49/module), and
- the Software Toolworks' "Miracle Piano Teaching System" ($479).
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- The current (January 1993) issue of Electronic Musician has an overview
- of music education software on pages 62-67 which mentions the above
- packages as well as "Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Theory" ($49). It
- includes phone numbers for all companies mentioned in the overview.
-
- John DeGood degood@lf.hp.com
- Hewlett-Packard Little Falls Site (Wilmington, Delaware)
-