A Visit to the Kawai Factory

 

On Day 3, you'll experience the biggest highlight of our trip, a tour of Kawai's Ryuyo Grand Piano Factory.  The Ryuyo tour is one of those "bucket list" items for anyone who has ever sold Kawai pianos. 

During the visit, all the points that make the Kawai story so powerful on the sales floor will come to life!  You'll see vertically-laminated bridges being glued to the soundboards, V-Pro iron plates being attached to the rim/soundboard assembly, steel-reinforcing bars being added to the keybed, pianos being strung with strength and passion, and actions being painstakingly regulated after getting hammered over 250,000 times by the torture machine!  Once you've visited the Ryuyo Factory, your Kawai presentation to customers will never be the same. 

Perhaps most importantly, you'll see firsthand the most valuable secret of Kawai quality -- our people.  After visiting Ryuyo, you'll never let anyone say that Kawai pianos are anything less than handmade.  To say anything else would dishonor the hundreds of men and women whose talented hands have been crafting Kawai pianos so for many years. 

When our tour is concluded, we'll make our way to the most visible landmark in Kawai's home city of Hamamatsu, the Okura Act City Hotel, for a receiption and dinner hosted by  Kawai global president, Mr. Hirotaka Kawai.  It will be an elegant ending to an exciting and rewarding day!