AMPLE (Advanced Music Programming Language Environment (or Econet)) was the music programming language for the Hybrid Music System (http://www.colinfraser.com/m5000/m5000.htm) on the BBC Micro. (It's also been implemented for RiscOS (http://www.aquitaine.demon.co.uk/).)
I got a Music 500 for my Barmitzvah in 1986, and got several albums for it on floppy disk. (One of which, "Ashes", was by the then fifteen-year-old Michael Harbour, whom I later encountered in a Part IB Biochemistry exam, and greatly embarrassed by (to my own chagrin) going into gushing fan mode.) I still listen to some of them. I also got a Music 4000 keyboard, which in the last ten years I have coupled with my Music 500, and my BBC Master (the last of Heriot-Watt University's eight-bit machines, which I caught on the way to the skip in 1998) to ensure I don't forget how to play the piano altogether.
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I got a Music 500 for my Barmitzvah in 1986, and got several albums for it on floppy disk. (One of which, "Ashes", was by the then fifteen-year-old Michael Harbour, whom I later encountered in a Part IB Biochemistry exam, and greatly embarrassed by (to my own chagrin) going into gushing fan mode.) I still listen to some of them. I also got a Music 4000 keyboard, which in the last ten years I have coupled with my Music 500, and my BBC Master (the last of Heriot-Watt University's eight-bit machines, which I caught on the way to the skip in 1998) to ensure I don't forget how to play the piano altogether.