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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 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. It is essentially a Kawai K4r with percussion waveforms, plus faster envelopes, gate mode and amplifier to better suit percussion ...
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.
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 ...
The Kawai K4 is a 61 key synthesizer manufactured in 1989 by Kawai. It contains several features beyond those offered on Kawai K1 , adding resonant filters and a DAC PCM wavetable. The K4 incorporated a new type of synthesis called Digital Multi Spectrum.
Mechanical music technology is the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or perform music; to compose, notate, play back or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music. The earliest known applications of technology to music was prehistoric peoples' use of a tool to hand-drill holes in bones to ...
Kurzweil was a developer of reading machines for the blind, and their company used many of the technologies originally designed for reading machines, and adapted them to musical purposes. They released their first instrument, the K250 in 1983, and have continued producing new instruments ever since.
In the heyday of the music box, some variations were as tall as a grandfather clock and all used interchangeable large disks to play different sets of tunes. These were spring-wound and driven and both had a bell-like sound. The machines were often made in England, Italy, and the US, with additional disks made in Switzerland, Austria, and Prussia.