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HQ of Kawai Musical Instruments in Hamamatsu Shigeru Kawai Grand Piano. Koichi Kawai, the company founder, was born in Hamamatsu, Japan in 1886. His neighbor, Torakusu Yamaha, a watchmaker and reed organ builder, took him in as an apprentice.
The Kawai Q-80 by Kawai Musical Instruments in 1989, [1] is a music sequencer that has a built in 2DD floppy disk drive for storage. It allows playback, editing, and recording via its MIDI connections. There is a battery backup to hold the configuration when the unit is powered down. The tempo can be set from 40-250 beats per minute.
A K5000 sound is composed of up to six different layers, each of which could use the "advanced additive" synthesis engine or perform fairly standard subtractive synthesis using the internal PCM sound bank.
2 line LCD screen; 256 16 bit, 32 kHz internal waveforms (96 Digital Cyclic waveforms and 160 PCM samples) Drum section (61 drum patches) [3] Interestingly, the K4 uses a system that splits 16 bit samples between two read only memory (ROM) chips, while reserving a third chip for 8 bit sound samples that naturally have more noise (such as cymbals, snares, and other noisier percussion) in order ...
The Akai MPC (originally MIDI Production Center, now Music Production Center) is a series of music workstations produced by Akai from 1988 onwards. MPCs combine sampling and sequencing functions, allowing users to record portions of sound, modify them and play them back as sequences.
Uses a ten-song music roll and plays multiple wind, string, and percussion instruments. Orchestrion is a generic name for a machine that plays music and is designed to sound like an orchestra or band. Orchestrions may be operated by means of a large pinned cylinder or by a music roll and less commonly book music.
Organs (music) (5 C, 54 P) R. Robot musicians (5 P) Pages in category "Mechanical musical instruments" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
Music stand: A metal or plastic rack for holding sheet music or music books upright. The music stand is usually removable to facilitate storage and transportation. Sustain pedal: If a home keyboard has a sustain feature, replicating the similar device used on acoustic pianos, 1/4" jack is provided for this purpose. By comparison, on a digital ...