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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. Kawai became a member of the research and development team that introduced pianos to Japan. [2]
The brand are made in China by Beijing Hsinghai Piano Group, Silbermann Piano Co., and Parsons Music for the importer, North American Music Inc. Hardman Peck: New York: US 1842–1990 The name "Hardman" is used in China by Beiijing HsingHai. Haynes: Chicago: US Heintzman & Co. Toronto: Canada 1866–1929 Hobart M. Cable: La Porte, IN US 1900–1960
This article is a list of piano brand names from all over the world. This list also includes names of old instruments which are no longer in production. Many of these piano brand names are "stencil pianos", which means that the company which owns the brand name is simply applying the name to a piano manufactured for them by another company,
Parsons manufactures pianos for its own brands (Yangtze River and Schönbrunn), [2] grand pianos for Baldwin [5] and manufactures a few Kawai models for sale only in Parsons Music's stores in China. [6] [2] Parsons is the majority shareholder of the German piano manufacturers Wilh. Steinberg since 2013 [7] [8] and Grotrian-Steinweg since 2015 ...
Kawai K5000S The K5000S was intended for live performance and it includes sixteen realtime control knobs (four of them assignable), a programmable arpeggiator, [2] two assignable front panel buttons, a damper and (assignable) expression pedal, and two assignable foot switches.
Model Name / Number Years sold new Description Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 1968 Organ with 2 44 key manuals, 13 bass pedals, built-in spring reverb, Leslie effect, and marimba effect famously known from Baba O'Riley by The Who played by Pete Townshend. [2] The TBO-1 is a slightly upgraded version of the older but otherwise identical Berkshire TBO ...
The Kawai K1 is a 61 key synthesizer manufactured in 1988 [3] by Kawai. It is an entry-level [4] and low fidelity synthesizer and not as feature rich as the Kawai K4 and was released to compete with the Roland D50 and Korg M1 synthesizers. The patch memory can be doubled with a DC-8 memory card which was available separately. [5]
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...