As with many Japanese start-ups of the period, the name Roland was selected for export purposes as Kakehashi was interested in a name that was easy to pronounce for his worldwide target markets.

Ikutaro Kakehashi is best known for founding Roland Corporation.

It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ¥ 33 million in capital.

On March 1, 2006 Nakamichi, along with the northern part of the village of Kamikuishiki ( the localities of Furuseki and Kakehashi ), was merged into the city of Kōfu.

* The northern part of Kamikuishiki ( the localities of Furuseki and Kakehashi ), along with the town of Nakamichi, from Higashiyatsushiro District, was merged into the city of Kōfu.

In 2002 Kakehashi published his biography in a book called " I Believe In Music " ( ISBN 0634037838 ), and was also featured as a biography in the book The Art of Digital Music.

In 1973, Kakehashi cut ties with both companies to found Roland.

He presented a paper outlining the idea of a Universal Synthesizer Interface ( USI ) to the Audio Engineering Society ( AES ) in 1981 after meetings with Tom Oberheim and Roland's Ikutaro Kakehashi.

Ikutaro Kakehashi now assumes the role of Special Consultant, supporting Roland management with his extensive experience and connections.

Kakehashi founded Ace Electronic Industries in 1960, a manufacturer of numerous combo organs, guitar amplifiers, and effects pedals.

Kakehashi did not learn of " The Song Of Roland " until later.

During the 1950s, Ikutaro Kakehashi, repaired electronic organs and created new prototype organs, all the while running an electrical appliance shop.

* 1954-Started Kakehashi Radio electrical appliance store.

If they opted for illusion, it could only be illusion per se -- an illusion of depth, and of relief, so general and abstracted as to exclude the representation of individual objects.

If, on the other hand, they opted for representation, it had to be representation per se -- representation as image pure and simple, without connotations ( at least, without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed.

Ajax opted for white shorts and white shirt with a broad, vertical red stripe over chest and back, which still is Ajax's outfit.

An upgraded version with active radar seeker, called Active Sky Flash was proposed by BAe and Thomson-CSF, but did not receive funding because the RAF opted for other missiles.

During the mid-1980s, many sysops opted for the less expensive, ubiquitous Commodore 64 ( introduced in 1982 ), which became popular among software pirate groups.

Recently Croatia has opted to build a bridge to the Pelješac peninsula to connect the Croatian mainland with the exclave but Bosnia and Herzegovina has protested that it will close their way to international waters ( although Croatian territory and territorial waters surround Bosnian-Herzegovinan ones completely ) and has suggested that the bridge must be higher than 55 meters for free passage of all types of ships.

Before this action, though, he had for the most part opted to continue the Whig policy of limited expansion, preferring to maintain the then-current borders as opposed to promoting expansion.

Over succeeding decades the number of societies has decreased, as various societies merged to form larger ones, often renaming in the process, and other societies opted for demutualisation followed by-in the great majority of cases-eventual takeover by a listed bank.

Over half of the registered voting population of Chile has opted for a change away from center-left politics by electing a right-wing candidate, Sebastián Piñera

Recently Croatia has opted to build a bridge to the Pelješac peninsula to connect the Croatian mainland with the exclave but Bosnia and Herzegovina has protested that it will close their way to international waters ( although Croatian territory and territorial waters surround Bosnian-Herzegovinan ones completely ) and has suggested that the bridge must be higher than 55 meters for free passage of all types of ships.

However, Pope John Paul I chose not to be crowned and opted for a simpler papal inauguration ceremony, and his two successors followed that example.

In 1964 the Cowboys opted for a simpler look ( adopting essentially the team's current uniform ) by changing their jersey / socks to one solid color with three horizontal stripes on the sleeves ; the white jersey featured royal blue stripes with a narrow black border, the royal blue jersey white stripes with the same black outline.

Alternate jerseys for the RBK Edge system were made for 2008 – 2009 and continues today, but Detroit has thus far opted not to use alternates.

Derrida opted for deconstruction over the literal translation destruction to suggest precision rather than violence.

Thus, they initially opted for project approval and censorship guidelines while leaving what remained of the industry in private hands.

Afterwards, the Marlins offered Willis to the rival New York Mets for Major-league ready third baseman David Wright but they declined and then opted to keep Willis who represented nearly a third of their 2006 payroll of $ 15 million.

The cast members made efforts to keep the ensemble format and not allow one member to dominate ; they entered themselves in the same acting categories for awards, opted for collective salary negotiations, and asked to appear together on magazine cover photos in the first season.

Tomoyuki Tanaka had originally desired to create new monster opponents for the series, but after the box office failure two years earlier of the previous entry Godzilla vs Biollante, opted to bring back classic foes instead.

The acronym GUT was first coined in 1978 by CERN researchers John Ellis, Andrzej Buras, Mary K. Gaillard, and Dimitri Nanopoulos, however in the final version of their paper they opted for the less anatomical GUM ( Grand Unification Mass ).

The Russian Navy still operates very large hydrofoils and have been successful in their designs, largely because they have opted for simpler systems which might not have the same performance as the US designs but are much more robust and reliable.

Their representative at the Peace of Riga talks opted for leaving Minsk, Berdychiv, Kamianets-Podilskyi and the surrounding areas on the Soviet side of the border, not wanting to allow population shifts National Democrats considered politically undesirable, including what would be a reduced proportion of citizens who were ethnically Polish.

Any customer who opted to keep theirs was required to sign a waiver indicating their understanding that no more software would be written for the system and which absolved Intellivision of any future responsibility for technical support.

" When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain " Booker " as part of the official title of the prize.

When the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by a whale in 1820, the captain opted to sail 3000 miles upwind to Chile rather than 1400 miles downwind to the Marquesas because he had heard the Marquesans were cannibals.

An offer to lease it to nearby Fulham was turned down, so Mears opted to found his own club to use the stadium.

Dalhousie was ranked in spite of having opted out — along with several other universities in Canada — of participating in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006.

Cukor was then assigned to One Hour With You ( 1932 ), an operetta with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, when original director Ernst Lubitsch opted to concentrate on producing the film instead.

However, as Witten was more skeptical about membranes than his colleagues, he opted for " M-theory " rather than " Membrane theory ".

) The militia could not be compelled to serve overseas, but it was seen as a training reserve for the army, as bounties were offered to men who opted to ' exchange ' from the militia to the regular army.

He returned to Berlin, and was offered a position as editor of Crelles Journal, but opted out.

There was an ongoing terminological dispute between NATO and the Warsaw Pact over whether to call a toxin a biological or chemical agent, in which the NATO opted for biological agent, and the Warsaw Pact, like most other countries in the world, for chemical agent.

He was scouted by the Philadelphia Phillies and Minnesota Twins during his senior year, but opted instead to go to college.

" On opening night, Orbison opted to go onstage first although he was the more established act.

Not all iterations of the Doctor have used the sonic on screen ; the Fifth Doctor in fact opted not to replace his after it was destroyed.

Mahmood opted for early retirement from PAEC in 1999 as he was transferred to a non-technical position by the Prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

India was heavily involved in the development of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but ultimately opted not to sign.

Movie Trailer was discontinued in 2000 to give stations that opted for them room for a second weekend run of Star Trek: Enterprise and America's Next Top Model ( and later, Veronica Mars ).

Skalbania opted to have Gretzky sign a personal-services contract rather than a standard player contract in part because he knew a deal to take some WHA teams into the NHL was in the works.

When he opted to drop out, the three men went their separate ways, and the piece was shelved for almost five years.

but opted not to enable it in hopes that AMD would not bring AMD64 to market before Itanium's new IA-64 instruction set was widely adopted.

However, Nicks was unhappy with the album, and opted to record a new batch of songs in 1985.

After a period during which some minor landowners within the boundaries opted out, the Drainage District was incorporated on May 13, 1966, as a public corporation.

After graduating from Cretin-Derham Hall High School, he was selected in the 28th round of the 1974 free agent draft as a pitcher by the St. Louis Cardinals, but opted instead to attend college at the University of Minnesota.