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Subject: Re: [AN1x] an1x as master keyboard?

From: Bruce Wahler <bruce@...>
Date: 2002-05-21

Peter,

Yamaha only owns a percentage (30% ?) of Korg, not the whole company. And Fatar is still its own, very quirky company...

Regards,

-BW

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At 08:39 P 5/21/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>From: "jondl_2000" <jondl_2000@...>
>
>> I agree with the comments regarding the quality of keyboard
>> mechanism for its price class. FWIW, my preference remains the
>> keyboard mechanism (Fatar?) used in the (old) Korg
>> Wavestation and Yamaha SY77. I think this is still used in Korg
>> keyboards today but I may be mistaken.
>
>Oooooh, I thought it came from Yamaha (also because Yamaha used to own
>Korg). Makes sense, though. Or maybe Yamaha bought Fatar?
>
>- Peter