harp using the KORG OT-120 Wide 8 Octave Orchestral Digital Tuner KORG was founded in 1962 in Tokyo by Tsutomu Kato and
Tadashi Osanai as
Keio Gijutsu Kenkyujo Ltd.. It later became because its offices were located near the
Keio train line in Tokyo and Keio can be formed by combining the first letters of Kato and Osanai. Before founding the company, Kato ran a nightclub. Osanai, a
Tokyo University graduate and noted accordionist, regularly performed at Kato's club accompanied by a
Wurlitzer Sideman rhythm machine. Dissatisfied with the rhythm machine, Osanai convinced Kato to finance his efforts to build a better one. The company's first product was an electro-mechanical rhythm device, the Disc Rotary Electric Auto Rhythm machine, Donca Matic DA-20, released in 1963. In 1992, KORG acquired
Vox, then primarily a manufacturer of guitar amplifiers. KORG was the exclusive distributor of
Marshall Amplification products in the US for decades. This arrangement ended in 2010. Kato died of cancer on 15 March 2011. The new line of more accessible digital synthesizers, including the wavestate, modwave and opsix, are featuring a
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3. In September 2022, Korg bought
Darkglass Electronics. ==Products==