page_title: Kurzweil Music Systems
section_title: SP Series
hierarchical_section_title: Kurzweil Music Systems / Products / SP Series
caption_attribution_description: Pilotshop Live @ Kulturwerk Nienburg, Sat 14 June 2008 Kurzweil MicroPiano
context_page_description: Kurzweil Music Systems is an American company that produces electronic musical instruments. It was founded in 1982 by Stevie Wonder, Ray Kurzweil and Bruce Cichowlas.
  Kurzweil was a developer of reading machines for the blind, and their company used many of the technologies originally designed for reading machines, and adapted them to musical purposes. They released their first instrument, the K250 in 1983, and have continued producing new instruments ever since. The company was acquired by Young Chang in 1990. HDC acquired Young Chang in 2006 and in January 2007 appointed Raymond Kurzweil as Chief Strategy Officer of Kurzweil Music Systems.
context_section_description: The initial Kurzweil SP Series are Stage Pianos based on the popular Kurzweil Micro Piano half-rack module of the mid-1990s. It provides 32 sounds including pianos, electric pianos, organs, strings and synths.
  The board is also a fairly capable MIDI controller, and features two ribbon controllers.
  In summer of 2007, Kurzweil launched the SP2.
caption: Micro Piano half-rack module
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