I'm sure I read in the Zone when the closure announcement was first made, that the reason for this was that the founder of the Company was passionately interested in musical instruments and that he was more or less solely responsible for giving us the Technics organs and keyboards. When he died, his successor(s) who had no interest in music decided to close down this section of the empire. I'm also sure that Technics Player provided this info but I may be wrong in this respect.

One of the things I always looked forward to in acquiring a new keyboard was a supply of new styles.. I can't produce them myself - certainly not to the exceedingly high standard set by Technics. Now I know that pretty well the whole range of styles from previous instruments was available from the Technics site, but the bulk of these have no interest for me. I'm only interested in swing/jazz/latin. I've been waiting in vain, so far, for someone to produce new styles in this genre but looks so far as if I'll just go on waiting - in vain.

Happy music making to all.

Peter