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Article: Computer music systems ... wave of the future or impractical fantasy? (Print Music Market)
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- Music Trades
- Article date:
- June 1, 1991
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A Look At The Potential Of Point-Of-Purchase Manufacturing, For Music
The unveiling of computer music vending systems at the NAMM Winter Market caused an unprecedented controversy in the highly traditional print music business. For an industry unaccustomed to wrenching technological change, the prospect of selling music out of a computer, instead of browser bins, was a revolutionary and unsettling concept that challenged scores of standard business practices established over the past seventy-five years.
According to the scenario put forth by the makers of "point-of-purchase music manufacturing" systems, in the near future, the sheet music department, ...