[Coco] Speech Systems Symphony 12 & Piano attachment

[Mike Brant]

I think i remember that cart i asked people what it was for and no one
knew about it.  I don't think i have it anymore but now I want one.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 11:43 AM Brian Blake via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> Hi Rob, thanks for sharing this info.
>
> Is there any way you could take some pic of the cartridge PCB - top &
> bottom? I'd like to get it documented and maybe try to reproduce it. I have
> a feeling items like these weren't sold in great numbers, and the
> documentation is non-existent.
>
> The irony here is, now that I know what some of these items are, I'm about
> 90% convinced I had the cartridge at one point, and sold it along with all
> of my CoCo stuff in 2017. I had a long white Speech Systems cartridge with
> a single DIN port on it - I think it was 5 pins. I had no idea what it was
> for then...
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM Rob Rosenbrock via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ohioan by birth, Floridian by the grace of U-Haul and a bad economy...
> > > --------
> > > Sarcasm is the body's natural defense to stupidity.
> >
> > 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.
> >
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