[Coco] Speech Systems Symphony 12 & Piano attachment

[Bruce Borer]

Is there programs that use that interface.  If not, tell me what you want
to connect to and from what?
If there is interest I could design the interface and probably add
additional features.
Let me know what would be useful.

Bruce

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM Brian Blake via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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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