on May 5, 2023
If you know pianos, you know Yamaha seems to make the most desirable in the industry. Take this before it disappears!
The story of the Yamaha Piano begins in the year 1900. The first piano made in Japan was in 1900 by Torakusa Yamaha, the founder of Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. This corporation went on to be named the Yamaha Corporation. The first piano that Rakusa built was an upright piano, and two years later, Yamaha felt inspiration from the tones of its first grand piano. The company was mainly focusing on making pianos for the Japanese market because there was a new interest in Western classical music. Torakusu sent one of his pianos to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, where it received an Honorary Grand Prize.
By the 1920s, the Yamaha piano craftsmen learned more from European piano production techniques. In 1926, Yamaha invited Ale Schlegel to visit the craftsmen at the Nippon Gakki facilities in Japan. Ale Schlegel was an expert piano technician from Germany, and he offered Yamaha much insight. They discussed piano making in exhaustive detail, and Schlegel’s advice went into making an incredible product.
