Young Chang

Young Chang Akki Co. Ltd.. (Young Chang musical instruments) is a Korean manufacturer of pianos.

History

Young Chang was founded in 1956, shortly after the Korean War, Incheon (Seoul, Korea) by three brothers as a piano store. To avoid the high import duties on luxury goods, a cooperation agreement was reached with the company Yamaha Corporation. Pianos have been broken down into individual parts and the parts imported as commercial goods. The parts were then assembled in Korea again pianos.

The tremendous demand for pianos led to the establishment of its own piano production with the help of Yamaha. 1967 was the first pianos are manufactured. The instruments were first made ​​only for the Korean market, later they were sold worldwide. The production grew in the 1990s to over 100,000 pianos a year. This Young Chang was at times, before the advent of the Pearl River Piano Group, the world's largest piano manufacturer.

Young Chang also manufactures pianos for other manufacturers, including Hohner and Steinway & Sons ( Essex series). So far about 3 million pianos were manufactured.

In the late 80s and early 90s, Young Chang manufactured for the Company under the Squier Fender Guitars on label. Following its own production line followed with guitars under the label of Fenix, which had to be adjusted, however, after a plagiarism lawsuit from Fender.

In 1995, a plant in China was built, about 10,000 pianos and grand pianos are produced per year in the.

In the 1990s, Young Chang took over the company Kurzweil of the American inventor and author Raymond Kurzweil of YCA (Young Chang America ). Also founded Young Chang in the U.S., the YCRDC (Young Chang Research & Development Center ), are developed in the high-quality electronic musical instruments.