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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 XD-5 is a percussion synthesizer based on the Kawai K4 sample playback (but uses 16-bit 44.1 kHz sample rate as opposed to 32 kHz ) [6] [7] with filter and AM amplifier modulation synthesis architecture.
The Kawai R-100 is drum machine released in 1987. [2] The R-100 is the bigger brother of the R-50 and having velocity sensitive pads unlike the R-50. It has 24 on board samples that are 12-bit PCM format with a sample rate of 32kHz [3] and eight individual outputs as well as stereo and mono outputs for routing to an external mixing desk.
View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
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.
Pegs for double bass and guitar family instruments are usually geared, and are called tuning machines or machine heads. They often use a worm gear. The gearing ratio varies; while higher ratios are more sensitive, they are also more difficult to manufacture precisely. Machine heads may be open, with exposed gears, or closed, with a casing ...
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.
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.