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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.
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Sep 21, 2020 · Fact #9: Batch Made. Due to the precise and time-consuming nature of these instruments, only a couple of hundred Shigeru Kawai pianos are built each year. Rather than constructing all of the different models at once, Shigeru’s are built in single batches, as an attempt to maintain focus and uniformity.
Jun 26, 2017 · The Kawai Piano Story. The story of Kawai Pianos must look back at the life and career of the founder of the company, Koichi Kawai, who is well known in the Japanese music industry for his innovative and forward thinking view of the construction of musical instruments. I understand the excellence of the production values used in the creation of ...
Kawai Pianos, Los Angeles, California. 20,194 likes · 77 talking about this. Makers of the world's most advanced pianos, dedicated to transforming the future of the piano art form. Official page for...
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Shigeru Kawai was born on July 28, 1922 in the Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan. He entered the piano business as a young man in 1946. Although he was a member of the Kawai family, Shigeru spent his early years learning the piano building process as a regular worker. He put in long hours laboring diligently in the manufacturing area, sometimes ...
By the early fifties. Kawai had grown to over 500 people producing over 1500 pianos per year – and Koichi Kawai had received the prestigious “Blue Ribbon Medal” from the Emperor of Japan, becoming the first person in the musical instrument industry to receive such an honor. By the end of its first quarter century, the company had put in ...
Oct 26, 2023 · Kawai v 1927–1957. Establishing the Kawai Instruments Research Laboratory and manufacturing the first Kawai grand piano. The company name was changed to Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Company. Starting with the manufacture of reed organs and harmonics. Shifting its supplies to military instrumentation (World War II era)
