Kurzweil Rumour availability

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So, as far as I can tell, no one has Kurzweil Rumour's in stock. Many sites
say they will not have it in stock until the end of February. As far as I
can tell, they have been out of stock for a while also.

So, does anyone know what the problem is? Did Kurzweil seriously
underestimate the popularity of the Rumour, so they ran out of stock? It
doesn't seem that it should take this long to ramp up production on new
units though.

With this much delay, I start wondering if there is a known defect that is
being corrected, or a revised version is being developed.

John Marvin

 

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In article <LG1Kd.6715$Je6.5691@news.cpqcorp.net> jsm@fc.hp.com writes:

> So, does anyone know what the problem is? Did Kurzweil seriously
> underestimate the popularity of the Rumour, so they ran out of stock? It
> doesn't seem that it should take this long to ramp up production on new
> units though.

Come to think of it, Kuraweil wasn't even at the NAMM show this year,
not even as a keyboard manufacturer. Wonder if they've been bought by
somebody.



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"Mike Rivers" <mrivers@d-and-d.com> wrote in message
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>
> In article <LG1Kd.6715$Je6.5691@news.cpqcorp.net> jsm@fc.hp.com writes:
>
> > So, does anyone know what the problem is? Did Kurzweil seriously
> > underestimate the popularity of the Rumour, so they ran out of stock? It
> > doesn't seem that it should take this long to ramp up production on new
> > units though.
>
> Come to think of it, Kuraweil wasn't even at the NAMM show this year,
> not even as a keyboard manufacturer. Wonder if they've been bought by
> somebody.
>
>

Darn, not again. Might be a change for the better, though.

jb

 

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Mike Rivers <mrivers@d-and-d.com> wrote:
>
> Come to think of it, Kuraweil wasn't even at the NAMM show this year,
> not even as a keyboard manufacturer. Wonder if they've been bought by
> somebody.

Ahh, thanks, that is the clue I needed. I hadn't considered the possibility
of financial difficulties. Sure enough, typing Kurzweil and bankrupt into
google led me to some information.

Basically here is what the current status seems to be. Kurzweil is owned
by Young Chang (a Korean piano mfg.). Samick (another Korean piano mfg.)
tried to buy Young Chang. However the Korean FTC said no. Soon after,
Young Chang filed for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, it looks like Kurzweil has
lost a good part of their engineering team, which is not good.

It turns out that they were at NAMM, however, due to not having any
new products to announce, they were fairly quiet. It sounds like the
Kurzweil employees are optimistic about their future, but things are
kind of in limbo right now. There are continued rumors of a pending
announcement "any day now". I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

John Marvin

P.S. For those interested, this discussion board seemed to have the
most information:

http/community.sonikmatter.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t21555.html

 

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In article <Aw8Kd.6739$rz6.3010@news.cpqcorp.net> jsm@fc.hp.com writes:

> Ahh, thanks, that is the clue I needed. I hadn't considered the possibility
> of financial difficulties. Sure enough, typing Kurzweil and bankrupt into
> google led me to some information.

Funny how quickly we think to look for things like that these days.

> Basically here is what the current status seems to be. Kurzweil is owned
> by Young Chang (a Korean piano mfg.). Samick (another Korean piano mfg.)
> tried to buy Young Chang. However the Korean FTC said no. Soon after,
> Young Chang filed for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, it looks like Kurzweil has
> lost a good part of their engineering team, which is not good.

Aha! I knew (now that you remind me) that Kurzweil was owned by Young
Chang, but I wasn't aware of that company's problems. I just looked
at the NAMM directory and Young Chang wasn't there this year either.

> It turns out that they were at NAMM, however, due to not having any
> new products to announce, they were fairly quiet.

The people may have been there, but they're not listed in the show
directory, so if they had a booth, it was a late addition that didn't
even make the late additions. Hopefully at least the studio products
will be picked up by somebody.


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I was speaking to a rep at Sweetwater today who said that Kurzweil had
in fact been sold to Samick. He said that availability has been slow
for all of their stuff; the orders do get shipped but have been taking
much longer than normal to fill. He did say, though, that product was
still available.

I'll let you know if/when I receive the KDFX upgrade I ordered today.
Ragnar

 

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"Mike Rivers" <mrivers@d-and-d.com> wrote in message
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> Come to think of it, Kuraweil wasn't even at the NAMM show this year,
> not even as a keyboard manufacturer. Wonder if they've been bought by
> somebody.
>
The last invoice I got from them was on Samick's letterhead, if that helps.

Dave Martin
Nashville, TN