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Ikutaro Kakehashi, Founder Of ATV And Roland Corporations, Passes Away
With great sadness, ATV Corporation announces that Ikutaro Kakehashi, Chairman and CEO of the company, passed away of heart failure at the age of 87 on April 1 at 6:34 A.M. “On his behalf, we would like to express hereby our gratitude for your support and friendship during his lifetime,” ATV said in an official statement.
In accordance with his will, the funeral was held prior to this announcement with only family members in attendance. His family also requests that no gifts or flowers be sent to them in his remembrance. A celebration of his life is planned for Sunday, June 11, 2017, in Hamamatsu, Japan. Details will be announced on ATV Corporation’s website.
Mr. Kakehashi was born on February 7, 1930 in Osaka, Japan. In 1947, at the age of 16, he opened the Kakehashi Clock Shop and then Kakehashi Musen (an electrical appliance shop) in 1954. In 1960, he founded electronic instrument manufacturer Ace Electron
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Ikutaro Kakehashi
Japanese businessman (1930–2017)
Ikutaro Kakehashi (梯 郁太郎, Kakehashi Ikutarō, 7 February 1930 – 1 April 2017), also known by the nickname Taro,[1] was a Japanese engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. He founded the musical instrument manufacturers Ace Tone, Roland Corporation and Boss Corporation, and the audiovisual electronics company ATV Corporation.
Kakehashi founded Ace Tone in 1960 to produce electronic organs and early drum machines. He founded Roland in 1972 and was involved in the development of various influential electronic instruments, such as the TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines and the TB-303 and Juno-60 synthesizers, in addition to Boss guitar amplifiers and effects pedals. He was also key to the development of MIDI, a technical standard that connects a wide variety of electronic instruments, in the 1980s; in 2013, Kakehashi received a Technical Grammy Award, shared with Dave Smith of Sequential, for the invention of MIDI. Kakeha
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Ikutaro Kakehashi (梯 郁太郎, Kakehashi Ikutarō, 7 February 1930 – 1 April 2017), also known by the nickname Taro,[1] was a Japanese engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. A pioneer in electronic musical instruments and a Technical Grammy Award winner, he was founder of Japanese companies Ace Tone, Roland Corporation, chef Corporation and ATV Corporation. He was involved in developing, for example, Roland drum machines such as the TR-808 and TR-909, the MIDI standard, TB-303bass synth, Ace Tone Rhythm Ace electronic drums and drum machines, Roland synthesizers such as the Jupiter and Juno series, Microcomposersequencers and grooveboxes, guitar amplifiers such as the Jazz Chorus, and Boss effects pedals such as the DS-1 Distortion and HM-2 Heavy metall. His electronic equipment were influential, revolutionizing popular music and shaping numerous music genres, including electronic, dance, hip hop, R&B, rock and pop music.[2][1][3][4]