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Torakusu Yamaha – Where it all began.
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DID YOU KNOW?
There actually was a Mr Yamaha!!
Torakusu Yamaha (1851-1916) was a watchmaker and also repaired medical equipment.
One day in the small town where he lived, the local school asked him if he could fix their broken reed organ (being a small town there was no one qualified to fix it)
He accepted the offer and soon discovered the problem, and from then on decided he could build a better instrument.
In 1887 Torakusu with a colleague produced the first Japanese made reed organ and so began the Yamaha Corporation, the rest is history as they say.
Yamaha is now the biggest manufacturer of musical instruments in the world. We wonder what he would have thought about the current instruments, especially the new Genos 2?
Pictured is one of the early reed organs produced by Yamaha, on display at the Milton Keynes headquarters.
