Hey...good one...you caught it too.

Sequential Circuits had a synthesizer called the Prelude (sort of an orchestral type...strings, brass, pipe organ etc)in 1982, AND, even earlier in 1979, it made one called the Fugue (actually it was designed by Sequential, and built by Siel and is really a Siel Cruise, in disguise.)

Another little tidbit...

In 1987, Roland bought up Siel S.p.A, based in Italy, which had been producing synthesizers and organs. They took over Siels's operations, renamed the company as Roland Europe S.p.A. in 1988, and released a new series of products for the European market, including the E-10 and E-20 Intelligent Synthesizers.

So...you may be right about a future Roland "Fugue" arranger, although Sequential Circuits was eventually picked up by Yamaha, who used the former's vector synth technology to make the SY-22/35 and then passed it on to Korg who made the Wavestation.

Good catch.

Ian