The world’s first software company and the world’s first player violin

This creates numerous possibilities. For example, most off-the-shelf audio equipment has a left and right channel available for use. State-of-the-art technology permits QRS to store the digital signal in an analog format on the left channel of the software which operates those players. This leaves the right channel available for live prerecorded audio music, even vocal recordings. Pianomation blends them together in perfect harmony and synchronisation. The Pianomation MIDI System is the first product of its kind to "marry" analog and digital technology.

The Virtuoso Violin is a rare beast, and can be purchased in only a few locations as well as directly from QRS online.

The only virtuoso violin in the southern hemisphere is currently on show at the QRS Music Darling Street showroom in Sydney. And finally, Fred Paroutaud, like his ex-NASA business partner, has many facets, not the least of which is a love of motoring. Fred recently wrote a report on the Ferrari Breadvan for the Robb Report and published his own report on the Concorso Italiano held last weekend in California.