[Coco] Speech Systems Symphony 12 & Piano attachment

[bester at adamswells.com]

On 2025-08-11 10:55 pm, Brian Blake via Coco wrote:
> Greetings CoCoNutz,
> 
> This one may be testing some brain cells, as I've never seen this 
> device in
> the wild - only in Rainbow ads...
> 
> I recently bought and assembled the Philharmonic 12 (Speech System 
> Symphony
> 12 repro), and am really wanting to test it's 12 voices. Currently, no
> Symphony files exist in the CoCo archive. The Musica files play fine
> (mostly), but are only 4 voice compositions. The Speech Systems ads 
> from
> BITD show a 61 key keyboard attached, that uses a CZ-101  cartridge(?) 
> to
> connect to the CoCo.
> 
> Does anyone know anything about these devices? I'm wondering if a MIDI
> keyboard and adapter would act similarly in the Symphony XII software. 
> In
> my reading so far, this isn't mentioned, though Speech Systems also 
> sold a
> CoCoMIDI program and cartridge...
> 
> 
> If anyone has any info on these Speech Systems products (beyond what is 
> in
> the CoCo Archive) I'd love to arrange to get a copy uploaded to the
> archive. I'd really like to test the Philharmonic out to 12 voices
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> --
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> --------
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I have the keyboard. If I remember right, the cartridge I have is just a 
PIA to interface the keybed to the buss. $FF64

I bought my keyboard as part of Synther 77. It's been a long time, but I 
do remember the program having some sort of sequencer.