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| November 24, 2000
Friday, 7:30 P.M. Another clear, cool day in Hamamatsu. As our tour guide from yesterday constantly repeated, "You are very lucky." I believe we are. We visited the Yamaha factory - this is the one that produces grand pianos; not motorcycles. The workers paid us no attention as we walked through their production area to see the various steps of piano construction. All of the jobs looked difficult if you think about doing the same thing for the entire workday. I though the most difficult was the installation of the strings because the worker had to reach so far and really climb into the piano frame to attach the strings properly. The outside of these pianos is black. An occasional brown, white, or red one indicated a special order for a customer. At the end of the tour, we were allowed to play some Yamaha musical instruments - including electronic pianos, drum set, violin, and cello. We pretended we were like the young man who has won the piano competition - as 16-year-old from Russia. Keep practicing if you are taking lessons! Mr. Holdredge would love one of these pianos, but I don't think we have an extra $30,000. |
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