>In a message dated 2/25/00 9:27:52 PM, owner-pianotech-digest@ptg.org writes: > ><<Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:26:41 -0500 >From: Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com> >Subject: Accent > >Friends, > >Today I received the most recent copy of Accent, published by Yamaha >Piano. On the back cover it states Yamaha created its first piano in >1900 and celebrated the company's 50th anniversary in 1937. Can someone >let me know how this can be? > >Regards, >Clyde Hollinger, RPT >>> > >Yamaha is a big company, many smaller divisions, that produces many different >items. My guess, they built other items first. Mrs Blitz, down the street, >has an old Yamaha rake, one of the first built, supposedly from the 19th >century. Clyde, I believe from an old brochure I have on file that Yamaha first built reed organs in 1887, then pianos in 1900. I have a 100th year anniversary pin from 1987 authenticating the occasion. A very diverse company, I recall them making snow skis, houseboats, etc. which wouldn't rule out garden rakes. Early Yamaha pianos to North America had Nippon Gakki emblazened on the plate. Some were underslung actions, perhaps a collector's item today. I recall my son's surprise when the emblem on his motorcycle was the same as the emblem on pianos I had sold in 1965. Putt, putt, putt, brrrrrrrrr. John Lillico, RPT Oakville, ON Canada
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