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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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The Company That Made a Flop, Then Made It the Sound of Modern Music
Hardware · Consumer · Media

The Company That Made a Flop, Then Made It the Sound of Modern Music

Ikutaro Kakehashi built drum machines nobody wanted. Then a generation of broke producers dug them out of pawn shops - and rewrote pop music with them.

roland · synthesizersRead →
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The Company That Taught a Reed Organ to Play the 1980s
Hardware · Consumer · Media

The Company That Taught a Reed Organ to Play the 1980s

A broken schoolhouse organ in 1887 became the world's largest instrument maker. How Yamaha turned tuning forks, FM chips and player pianos into a 3-billion-dollar sound empire.

yamaha · musical-instrumentsRead →