In 1989, John joined Roland UK as a full time Product Specialist and Demonstrator. Despite leaving the company in 1995 to become a full time musician again, John continued to work for Roland on a freelance basis. Over the years his demonstration/clinician skills have taken him around the world to places such as Japan, Singapore, China, Taiwan, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, USA, Canada and Australia in addition to many European countries such as Hungary, Belgium, Switzerland, Malta, Spain and Germany where he often works at the annual Frankfurt Music fair. His close working relationship with Roland also involves regular trips to Japan’s R&D centre where John is a major contributor to new product ideas, music software development, programming music styles (keyboard patterns) for electronic keyboards and writing built-in demo songs. If you are looking for piano scores of some of these demo songs you may find them at http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/johnmaul     If you've ever wondered how Roland started, it was with this remarkable man seated on my right, Mr Ikutaro Kakehashi If you own a Roland digital piano, chances are at least one of these guys behind me was probably involved in its design Another hard day at the office - Can you imagine what a drag it is having to work in Roland Japan's R&D centre in Hamamatsu :>)