Produced by Joseph S. Tushinsky, president of Superscope Inc. Superscope was the exclusive US distributor of the Sony brand tape recorders, microphones and audio tape at the time these were made.

Hosted by Los Angeles classical music radio station KFAC announcer, Felix DeCola. Felix was a fine piano player himself recording for the Stereotape label, including one album called the "STEREO-TONK HONKY-TAPE".

Opening Theme: Alfred Reisenhower (1905) "Chopin Portrait" by Robert Schumann [1810-1856] played by Vorsetzer machine on the Bosendorfer Imperial concert grand piano.

The grinding clunking mechanical noise of the Vorsetzer was reduced by placing it in a special built room that allowed just the "fingers" to protrude out toward the piano which was rolled up to the wall. Additionally, the Sony Electret C38 microphones were place inside the piano for maximum isolation . A Sony ES12 professional model tape deck made the audio recording

These were one hour programs consisting of two 30 minute segments. Some program run-downs on available shows

The shows came out about the time the FCC was ending the AM/FM station combos authority to simulcast, or duplicate the same programming on both stations. For the stations it was much needed new programs, in stereo for the FM outlets. Here is a list of the first 17 stations to carry the program, note that a few are AM stations as in those days it was the AM band that offered "serious music". For Sony it was a pitch to sell audio taperecorders, by demonstrating how nice it would be to record these programs off-air. Of course Sony has changed its tune recently concerning home recording....

Many of the tapes that Sony engineers mastered wound up later as a series of 12 albums marketed by Superscope. The KBI programs continued on radio even after Sony left the Superscope partnership.

In 1968 Welte Vorsetzer music was released by another company as The Welte Legacy of Piano Treasures , a partial listing is found after the KBI albums.