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ARTURIA – JUPITER-8V – MANUAL - EN

1 Introduction

1.1 Roland/Jupiter-8 Story

The history of Roland is intimately tied to the personal story of its founder, Mr. Ikutaro Kakehashi.

When he was just 16 years old, the young Mr Kakehashi noticed there was no watch or clock industry

in post-war Japan. He therefore understood there was a thriving business to develop repairing

existing timepieces.

Mr. Kakehashi found a part-time job in a watch repair store, but he quickly felt frustrated with the

pace at which things were progressing. In the traditional Japanese organization of work, becoming a

master in any technical area would take a seven-year apprenticeship. Consequently he left after a

few months, bought a book on how to repair watches and set up the “Kakehashi Watch Shop”.

This first venture happened to be so successful that he quickly decided to expand and turn his

enthusiasm for music into business. It became legal at that time to have a short-wave radio and to

listen to foreign broadcasts. While he scanned the airwaves for new music, Mr Kakehashi learned

the basics of how radios operated. He then used broken sets to create working units. His repair shop

started to repair broken radios in addition to clocks and watches.

In 1954 Mr Kakehashi opened an electrical goods and repair shop by the name of “Kakehashi Musen”.

- Later the name was to be changed to Ace Electrical Company. His initial goal was to produce an

electronic instrument capable of generating simple monophonic melodies, and so he ended up

building a Theremin. Looking for a new challenge, he later built a four-octave organ using parts

from a reed organ, bits of telephones, and simple transistor oscillators. In 1959, he designed and

built a Hawaiian guitar amplifier, but he also went on with his further organ developments.

It is remarkable that a man named Mr. Torakusu Yamaha had also started out as a watch repairer.

Just as Matthias Hohner, the founder of Hohner. Even the Hammond Organ Company has the same

kind of origin. It started out as a sub-division of the Hammond Clock Company.

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