EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 60, Issue 18 This issue's topics: Piano Tutor for PC? (6 messages) Piano/Music Tutors Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 08:50:17 GMT From: "Steven D. Bramson" Subject: Piano Tutor for PC? Anybody know of a MIDI (not Miracle system) piano tutor that runs on the PC? Steven Bramson sdb@jet.uk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 07:50:52 -0800 From: "Not into the Barney thing..." Subject: Re: Piano Tutor for PC? The Best (only?) MIDI Piano tutor is Piano Works by Temporal Acuity Products. There are two levels - each retails for ~$130. Email me for more details and/or pricing. -Doug doug@arizona.edu Music Supply and Repair Service 2710 N. Paseo Tierra Verde Tucson, AZ 85749 (602) 760-0425 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 08:06:00 -0500 From: Larry Koester Subject: Piano Tutor for PC? SK>Anybody know of a MIDI (not Miracle system) piano tutor that runs on SK>the PC? I've seen two others. One, I believe is called PianoWorks, the others name I forget. No doubt someone will answer with more detail. If not, message me again and I'll dig up the particulars for you. - Larry Koester, Bloomer, WI --- ~ DeLuxe}/386 1.25 #641s ~ Now using Qmail DeLuxe}...and loving it! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 23:12:54 GMT From: David Haile Subject: Re: Piano Tutor for PC? In article <9401201550.AA10071@sun1paztcn.WR.USGS.Gov> "Not into the Barney thing..." writes: >The Best (only?) MIDI Piano tutor is Piano Works by Temporal >Acuity Products. There are two levels - each retails for ~$130. >Email me for more details and/or pricing. > >-Doug Doug, Have you ever actually looked at Piano Works? I did and thought it was written by and for morons. If I remember right, the last lesson in the first lesson leaves you on the level of knowing what a half-step is and what the notes of the keyboard are, or some other basic level of understanding. Level two isn't much better. Overall, I thought that the promise of the next levels and what they would teach you were good, but that it was an over-priced poorly written product. Compare it side-by-side with the Miracle system and what comes with the $300 startup cost of Miracle compared to your above $260 cost not including the attached synthesizer. Miracle wins hands-down over anything available for any cost for PC-based keyboard learning systems. . -- /-------------------------------------------------------------------------/ / David W. Haile - Kuo & Associates, Inc., Ft. Collins, Colorado / /-------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 06:40:57 -0700 From: Robert Mackenzie Wallace <29220@EF.GC.MARICOPA.EDU> Subject: Re: Piano Tutor for PC? The Miracle Piano Teaching System by the Software Toolworks -- available on all platforms -- for about $299.00 is designed to teach anyone -- adults or kids -- the piano. It comes with a fully midiable keyboard with 127 gen midi custom patches plus full gen midi percussion. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 08:41:00 -0500 From: Larry Koester Subject: Re: Piano Tutor for PC? >The Best (only?) MIDI Piano tutor is Piano Works by Temporal >Acuity Products. There are two levels - each retails for ~$130. >Email me for more details and/or pricing. DG>Doug, Have you ever actually looked at Piano Works? I did and DG>written product. Compare it side-by-side with the Miracle syst DG>comes with the $300 startup cost of Miracle compared to your ab Miracle does come in a software only form that works through standard midi ports. Saw it offered in Tiger Software's catalog that just came a few day ago. - Larry Koester, Bloomer, WI --- ~ DeLuxe}/386 1.25 #641s ~ I tried the rest but bought the best!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 14:51:53 GMT From: "Steven D. Bramson" Subject: Piano/Music Tutors Has anybody come across the packages Piano Partners Play It By Ear I saw a book which referenced them but no mention of who makes/distributes/sells them. Any ideas or opinions on the packages? Steven Bramson sdb@jet.uk ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************