There is a famous brand that does almost everything, from making cars, ships, motorcycles, pianos, guitars and headphones. This brand is Yamaha.
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
In fact, at the earliest time, Yamaha was just a small piano repair shop, and its founder was piano repairman Torakusu Yamaha!
This is Torakusu Yamaha.
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire! Pingliang
The story begins with repairing the piano!
The old man thought he had repaired his organs by chance, and then he might think he was a genius. He began to study the piano repair technology that was out of control. Later, he felt dissatisfied, so he opened a piano repair shop and registered a company. . .
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
Pingliang later discovered that making musical instruments is more profitable than repairing musical instruments! Then fix the piano! ! ! Just build a piano!
This is the first piano he built.
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
After the production, he found that both the appearance and the timbre were not bad. After that, he never repaired the piano, bought wood, tools and so on, and began to make it! Later, he became a rising star in piano production!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
Anyway, the piano is made, and it doesn't matter if the instruments are different. Let's do it together! Yamaha has another guitar,
Trumpets, drum sets, followed by electric pianos, electric guitars and even electronic synthesizers. Anyway, I have all the instruments the band needs!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
The story after that is that if you have an instrument, you must have headphones to listen to! Then all kinds of audio-visual equipment were born like mushrooms after rain! Yamaha has everything from high-end professional recording studio monitor headphones to fashionable headphones!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
At concerts, auditoriums and weddings, you can also find these six big letters YAMAHA.
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
Do you think Yamaha has taken the music field to the extreme? Then your pattern Tucson is broken! Yamaha may feel empty and lonely after establishing its position in the field of musical instruments. It is better to be a virtual idol to play with me! So there is Vocaloid, a virtual vocal software that can sing. The most famous is Hatsune Miku, which is the onion song that is popular all over the country!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
When I debuted, I captured hundreds of millions of fans around the world! Also held a virtual 3D solo concert! Don't mention how successful it was!
I sell more albums than real idols!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
Hatsune Miku.
How much toilet paper did otaku waste?
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
Yamaha's mental journey here can also be regarded as lighting up the electronics industry by the way, after filling in the skills of musical instruments. Because of the research in the field of music, the research on digital signal processing technology is also an achievement. Then the question is coming! Since we know so much about digital signals, what should we build next?
Build a router! ! !
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
Musical instruments, digital, network equipment, a small piano maintenance company has thus become a comprehensive manufacturer. Lighting these three industries can't satisfy Yamaha, and it is king to continue to expand categories!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
They had mastered the skills of carpenters before making pianos. Since they have this ability, they can't waste it! Let's sell furniture! It's useless to save a lot of wood before making the piano, don't waste it ~
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
This spirit of studying everything finally touched the Japanese local government! The government assigned them a project to study wooden propellers!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
In order to better study the wooden propeller, they borrowed an engine to test it. The propeller was not studied much, but the engine was always broken! If it's broken, fix it. It's broken again. In this way, in the end, the wooden propeller was handed over hastily, but it lit up the core technology of the engine! By the way, the engine is made. . .
Fate came and did it.
Is so capricious
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
We have an engine, why not take a car? Then there is the world-famous Yamaha motorcycle!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
After the listing, the cool appearance and super performance fascinated the fans. Until now, Yamaha can be seen in major motorcycle races.
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
As soon as the motorcycle industry became famous, Toyota said: Make an engine for Laozi and install it on our new car AE86! Then. . . Fujiwara's tofu became the king of famous mountain drifting in autumn (you know)
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
The engine of the car has been built, and the speedboat can't be put down! Next time you go to the seaside, you can pay attention to it. 80% of the engines on the speedboat are Yamaha!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
I don't know what happened, but just when Yamaha was happy to be a speedboat engine, they showed up the FRP technology again! So ... . Build another golf club by the way!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
Based on the principle of having fun! A huge water slide that looks like a roller coaster is built with FRP technology, just for fun! By the way, do publicity!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
It involves industries related to water and FRP technology, so how about rebuilding a bathtub? ! ! Plus our stereo! Build a big bathtub that can get High when taking a shower ~
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
In the past two years, as an engine supplier of Ford, Lexus, LFA and other automobile brands, Yamaha has not been idle and got a supercar!
Yamaha sports car
Concept supercar
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
Adopting the hybrid mode of oil and electricity, the body shell is all made of carbon fiber material, and the whole vehicle is only 750 kg. It is the world's first supercar made of all-carbon fiber!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
Mixed with the super-running world, and stared at the electric car world! Tesla has all-electric cars! We also have Yamaha! So I released the MOTIV.e city electric car!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
In line with the principle of watching the fun and not afraid of big things! MOTIV.e looks like Mercedes-Benz smart, with the smart shape and pure electric power of Tesla. Yamaha thinks this is not enough! Then match it with a gasoline version ~
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
When Google laughed at Yamaha's involvement in various industries, Yamaha felt that we had won cars, stereos and FRP, and studying a robot was a small case! Then released a robot that can ride a motorcycle-Motobot! (Google was photographed lying down. . . )
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
There is nothing NB about this robot, except that it can ride a motorcycle well! Come on, brake, turn and stunt!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
You think this is just a robot lying on a motorcycle running at turtle speed, which is wrong. It can control the motorcycle at 200km/h, and with its own sensor, it can easily bend the mountain road!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
In order to publicize how awesome this robot is, Yamaha specially sent a message to the motorcycle world champion Rossi! 20 17 let's fight it out! I wonder who will win.
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
Let's take a look at the video of Motobot!
After studying the robot, do you still remember the Vocaloid technology we mentioned above? ! Yes, that's right. With robots and Vocaloid technology, Yamaha has a robot that can sing!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
Such a company that relies entirely on fate to produce technology really doesn't know what black technology will be in the future. Oh! That's right. Just when you think about what industry Yamaha wants to mix, they recently developed a smart wheelchair with VR!
Yamaha, a legend from repairing the piano to building a business empire!
Like many big brands in the world, Yamaha has not always focused on a certain field, but is constantly trying new things. Just like Torakusu Yamaha, the founder of Yamaha, Yamaha has been constantly innovating and challenging new fields on the road of "following fate" from piano repair to piano sales.
So, when you go to the dentist one day and want to get you a pair of Yamaha dentures, don't be surprised, that is, Yamaha has found a new destiny.