Thank you for your mail encouraging me to study more about
automatic musical instruments. It is so nice to hear from another
music lover. Beside Music boxes and organettes, I play simple
pieces on piano whenever I have time.

Since Yamaha is a large group with over 20 companies, I have
little chance to recognize our company's business outside Japan,
but now I feel like I could experience something about it. It would
be exciting if your brother or Mr. Wayne Stahnke could come to
Tokyo on a way to Yamaha corporation and factories in Hamamatsu,
2 hours from here by bullet train.

Yamaha Music Foundation is a small organization in Tokyo. We have
500 staffs working for 3 tasks. Most important is the music school
business. There are more than 700,000 students in 40 countries
around the world. Second is musician promotion. "Chage and Aska"
was selected to appear on MTV unplugged as a first asian pop group
recently. Their performance can be seen in July or August. Third is
publishing. We print textbooks and does other copyright matters.
I used to work for teachers training until March, but was moved to
proceed a new school programme.

Sorry that my reply became so late. I had been in Kyoto where I saw
Rey Akai, a Japanese writer who is specialized in organ. He is the
man who Mr. Gellerman had introduced me in the mailing list.
I happened to see him only few days after his introduction!
I look very much forward to receiving your cassette tape.

Best Regards,
Miho Matsuo