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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]
In the 1970s, hammered-string electric pianos returned to commercial production, beginning with Yamaha's CP-70 and CP-80, followed by models by Kawai Musical Instruments and Helpinstill. In the 1980s, with the advent of the digital piano , the electric grand piano declined in popularity, and production ultimately ceased.
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 ...
Roland Corporation (ローランド株式会社, Rōrando Kabushiki Kaisha) is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software.
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.
Clavinova CVP-303 Player Piano. The Clavinova is a long-running line of digital pianos created by the Yamaha Corporation.The name is a portmanteau of the two words Clavier meaning 'keyboard instrument” and nova meaning “new”.
Torakusu Yamaha, founder of Yamaha Corporation. Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (日本楽器製造株式会社, Nihon Gakki Seizō Kabushiki gaisha, lit. ' Japan Musical Instrument Manufacture ') was established in 1887 as a reed organ manufacturer by Torakusu Yamaha (山葉寅楠) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and was incorporated on 12 October 1897.
Kurzweil Music Systems is an American company that produces electronic musical instruments.It was founded in 1982 by Stevie Wonder (musician), Ray Kurzweil (innovator) and Bruce Cichowlas (software developer).