Hamamatsu: One thing lead to another...

A visit to a piano factory…

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Guy: Iyeyasu lived for 17 years in the castle. There was a lot of water around, one plant which survived the annual floods was cotton.

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Louise: So a textile industry began?

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Shodo Yukawa: Weaving

Guy: Looms were built which required carpenters, along came Yamaha who built organs needing pedals like those on the looms, then the pianos which needed properly dried timber from nearby forests. The curved sides on grand pianos are laminated of a dozen layers and clamped into curved molds.

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Louise: But there was technology too.

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Guy: In the 30s a flying school was founded, planes needed propellers, strongest if constructed from laminated timber like the layers of wood in grand pianos, but metal propellors were better and that technology lead to metal musical instrument.

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1887 Fashion

Louise: Like hammering out trumpets and bugles? From cotton to carpentry, from pianos to propellors.

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Guy: One thing lead to another.

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Voice-over

One thing leads to another… meaning not filling in a lot detail about how events were linked. Maybe there were multiple causes. Wheels within wheels. Maybe there was a need to keep the narrative uncomplicated. Simple and straightforward.

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