Kurzweil Music Systems is a company that produces electronic musical instruments for professionals and home users. Founded in 1982 by Stevie Wonder, Raymond Kurzweil, a developer of reading machines for the blind, and Bruce Cichowlas, a software developer, the company made use of many of the technologies originally designed for reading machines and adapted them to musical purposes. They released their first instrument, the K250 in 1983, and have continued producing new instruments ever since.