Though it may come as a surprise, Yamaha didn’t start out making motorcycles. One clue to the company’s origin hides in plain sight in its logo, which features three interlocking tuning forks. Before there was the Yamaha Motor Company,  there existed in postwar Japan its predecessor, Nippon Gakki Co. Ltd., which was strictly a piano manufacturer. The connection between pianos and motorcycles lies in the fact that within the former is a strong but flexible steel-frame skeleton, that Nippon Gakki had
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