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🎹Japanese Pianos | Yamaha Pianos vs Kawai Pianos | Pianos of the World Mini-Series - Episode 02🎹

🛒 Shop for Kawai HERE ▸https://geni.us/kawai-pianos 🛒 Shop for Japanese Pianos HERE ▸ https://geni.us/all-pianos 💕 Subscribe to Merriam Pianos HERE ▸ http://bit.ly/SubscribeMerriam 🔔 Click the 🔔 bell to be notified of all videos! ▸ http://bit.ly/SubscribeMerriam 0:00 - Video Intro 1:02 - Yamaha Opening Playing Sample 1:26 - Kawai Opening Playing Sample 1:47 - Video Overview 2:22 - Origins of Japanese Pianos 8:15 - Koichi Kawai 10:07 - Post -WW2 Yamaha 15:11 Kawai and Yamaha Japanese Made Pianos 17:13 Yamaha and Kawai Japanese Piano Output 17:35 Kawai and Yamaha Current Japanese Output 19:03 - Musical Characteristics of Japanese Pianos 20:05 - Kawai and Yamaha Actions Welcome to the Merriam Pianos YouTube channel. Today we’ll be continuing our look at different piano-producing countries from around the world as we give you the rundown on Japan. Japan has likely had the largest influence on 20th Century piano ownership of any country. Please like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell! Overview No discussion about the modern piano industry would be complete without a thorough examination of Japan. The modern Japanese piano industry is dominated by only 2 manufacturers - Kawai and Yamaha - and as such, we’ll be focusing on these 2 giants in this video. Origins of Japanese Pianos Stu expounds on this more in the video, but to sum up his comments, European culture started to be imported into Japan in the late 1800’s for a variety of reasons. With this came a deep reverence for music and of course, pianos, since if you wanted to experience European classical music at this time without visiting Europe, you had to recreate it for yourself at home. Yamaha started in 1887 as a small producer of organs. The eventual founder of Kawai, Koichi Kawai, came to be employed by Yamaha and was the first engineer in Japan to build a piano action thus he played an integral role in building Yamaha’s first pianos. Upon Yamaha becoming a public company in 1927, Koichi left to form his own company - Kawai. Both companies grew and experienced success up until WWII, which caused Kawai to lose all manufacturing capacity, and Yamaha to lose all factories save for one. Yamaha got things going again after the war sooner than Kawai, thus establishing Yamaha as the dominant piano maker in Japan. As Yamaha grew into the 1960s and ’70s, North America’s manufacturing quality was experiencing a rapid decline in quality, creating a huge vacuum that would soon be filled by the superior yet affordable pianos from Yamaha, and Kawai (to a lesser extent until essentially catching up by the 1980s) Japanese pianos raised the bar for what would be expected out of a mid-range piano in terms of build quality, musicality and price, thus becoming extremely popular with institutions and piano teachers. Yamaha was seen as the superior option until Kawai invested in a brand new research and manufacturing facility, which catapulted Kawai to equal standing. Japanese Pianos Today Today, both companies continue to produce a very large amount of instruments in Japan with very little outsourcing, absolutely dominating the mid-range piano market, and even taking some market share in the ultra-premium market due to their handmade lines (Yamaha CF, Shigeru Kawai.) Despite the fact that Yamaha is a much larger company as a whole than Kawai, their total acoustic piano production only outpaces Kawai by a 4:3 ratio. Both companies also produce pianos in Indonesia, but their Japanese offerings are as follows: The Yamaha GC grand piano series, which competes against Kawai’s GL series, the Yamaha CX grand piano series, which contrasts with Kawai’s GX series, Yamaha’s handmade CF grand pianos, contrasting with Kawai’s handmade Shigeru Kawai series, while Yamaha also offers the SX series, which is a factory build version of their CF series. For uprights, Yamaha makes a U series and premium YUS series, which compete against Kawai’s K series. Characteristics of Japanese Pianos Any conversation as to the general characteristics of Japanese pianos naturally focuses on comparing the musical qualities of Yamaha and Kawai pianos. Are there commonalities between the two that we could say are indicative of Japanese pianos as a whole? To an extent, yes, but there are actually many differences when comparing Yamaha and Kawai pianos, so broad statements about the musicality of Japanese pianos as a whole are tricky. Yamaha’s tend to sound bright and clear, while Kawai’s tend to sound warmer, and more colourful and the bass tends to have more presence and bloom, though both sets of pianos are known for being versatile. The action is very different for both companies. While they have both experimented with synthetic actions, Yamaha has largely abandoned this approach and gone back to wood, despite its imperfections that can only be corrected through very expensive means.