on March 25, 2024
If you know a good used piano when you see one, I’m guessing you know Samick already. Groovy piano, jump for it or it’s gone.
Hyo Ick Lee began the Samick piano company in South Korea back in 1958. Samick quickly became one of the largest piano manufacturers in the world and started to make most of his parts in the same place that he constructed the pianos. Once he finished excelling in the piano industry, Lee chose to manufacture guitars and other musical instruments.
During the 1980s, the company introduced the professional series pianos made by Tokai, one of the best makers in the country. Meanwhile, Samick Corporation hired a German piano designer named Klaus Fenner, to revise the designs of the Samick pianos. The goal was to make them sound more like a European piano and most of the pianos that they sell now have been created by those new designs. The company also used the advice they received from Fenner to create a new soundboard that is now used by others in the industry as well.
They have earned the designation of being one of the largest and highly knowledgeable musical instrument producers in the entire world. It is possible that pianists are playing a Samick without even knowing it because they sell them under other brand names that include William Knabe & Co., Pramberger, Kohler & Campbell, and Seiler.
