The KORG C1 is an excellent piano, both as an alternative to an acoustic instrument or where a traditional piano cannot be used.
Designed and made in Japan with 30 realistic instrument sounds, including samples of both German and Japanese grand pianos.
The stand with built-in speakers makes this digital piano a beautiful piece of furniture that fits as well on stage as in any home.
An incredibly affordable digital piano in genuine Korg quality!
KORG - Innovation since the -60s
Korg was founded in Japan in the early 60s by Tsutomu Katoh and his colleague Tadashi Osanai. The company was originally called Keio Electronic Laboratories and moved into its first premises in 1962. The name Keio was chosen because it contained the initials of the two founders' surnames. It was also the name of the railway line that passed right outside the window of their workshop.
In 1963, Katoh and Osanai's first product, the DoncaMatic DA-20, an electronic rhythm box based on a system of rotating discs, was introduced. The DA-20 got a successor in the DA-11, a fully electronic DoncaMatic model.
A few years later, Katoh was approached by Fumio Mieda, an engineer who wanted to build a new type of organ. Unlike most organs of the time, Mieda's version was programmable. Although he used the word organ himself, Mieda had in fact constructed a synthesizer. Fifty copies were produced and sold under the new name Korg, which was a contraction of the name Keio and Organ (English for organ, as you know).
During the 70s, Korg developed a number of synthesizer models such as the Mini Basket, the PE-1000 Polyphonic Ensamble and the MS-20. The company did not limit itself only to various synthesizers. In 1975, they launched the world's very first pocket-sized tuner, the WT-10, a product that has since gained countless followers.
1981 saw the arrival of the PolySix, a synthesizer unique in that it was both programmable, polyphonic and (perhaps most importantly) so cheap that virtually everyone could afford one. Another major development step was taken in 1988 with the Korg M1, a synthesizer that contained realistic sample-based sounds, drum machine, sequencer and digital effects unit, all combined into one instrument - the world's first workstation, in short.
