More than 95 years have passed since the first president, Koichi Kawai, started making pianos in Hamamatsu in 1927 with seven engineers. The Kawai business has since expanded to include digital and other musical instruments, music classes and other education-related businesses, metal business, coating business, acoustics business, and IT-related business.
Tracing back to the Kawai origins, it can be seen that these diversified businesses have all derived from technologies used to create pianos. A single seed planted by Koichi, who wanted to create the world’s best pianos, grew into a shoot, a stem, and a trunk, which in turn sent out branches and leaves. Going forward, Kawai will continue to utilise their accumulated hardware and software to nurture our business as a large tree rooted in the values of the new era.