"Oh ,my…. This organ got out of order and doesn't make this sound…"
In 1887,Organs started to be produced in Hamamatsu because the organ which was imported from the U.S. and was treasured at the Hamamatsu elementaly school broke.
Yamaha Torakusu,who was a repair man for medical instruments and later established YAMAHA,determined to copy the structure with fixing the organ and to try to make an organ by himself.
After two monthes , he and Kawai Kizaburo,who was a craftsman , finished the first organ . They brought it to Tokyo and the organ was examinded there.
But it failed because the tunig was incorrect .
So after studying Music theory for one month, they started to make the second organ by cutting down on his sleep .
Then finaly,they completed the second organ , which was no worse than the American organs.
In 1897, Toragusu established Japan Music Instrument Inc.(present YAMAHA Corp.)
In 1900, they succeeded in producing a piano owing to Piano Action completed by Kawai Koichi, an engineer.
In 1937, He became independent from YAMAHA Inc. with his seven favorite pupils and established KAWAI Music Instruments Laboratory (present KAWAI Musical Instruments Mfg. Co.,Ltd.).
After that, music instruments industry took root in Hamamatsu and now 100% of piano in Japan are made in Hamamatsu.

＊the production number in 1996 is 142,364 . the sales in 1996 is 48,3 billion yen.
(The Hamamatsu Chamber of Commerce and Industry "Hamamatsu Economic Index '96")

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