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dazzledbeans to [email protected] • 8 months ago

guess the company

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guess the company

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  • @[email protected]
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    107•8 months ago

    Yamaha started as an Organ and piano manufacturer.

    • @[email protected]
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      92•8 months ago

      Hence why their logo is 3 tuning forks.

      logo

      • @[email protected]
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        13•8 months ago

        That’s awesome

      • IninewCrow
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        8 months ago

        BMW started off making aircraft engines over a hundred years ago when powered aircraft were first being developed … which is why their logo is a circle with four different coloured quarters, it’s the image of a spinning propeller

        Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

        • @[email protected]
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          43•8 months ago

          Nintendo started off making playing cards, that’s why their logo is a [Remainder of comment removed due to Cease and Desist]

        • Lord Wiggle
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          2•8 months ago

          Peugeot started off making pepper and salt grinders.

        • @[email protected]
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          15•8 months ago

          I think it’s also a reference to the bavarian flag.

          • IninewCrow
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            7•8 months ago

            Yes … and because of that, for the longest time, because so many people repeated it, I thought the acronym stood for Bavarian Motor Works … its actually ‘Bayerische Motoren Werke’

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              32•8 months ago

              Which is literally just German for Bavarian Motor Works.

              • IninewCrow
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                19•8 months ago

                German for Bavarian Motor Works

                God damit! … I was right all along … just in the wrong language!

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          7•8 months ago

          Business, ofc

        • Ragdoll X
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          8 months ago

          Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

          • @[email protected]
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            6•8 months ago

            Silent movies with Chaplin?

        • @[email protected]
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          22•8 months ago

          This is a misconception. The chequered blue and white is part of a Bavarian flag, but due to some legal issues they had to straighten it.

        • Ephera
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          13•8 months ago

          The image of a propeller is from an ad they once ran, but the logo existed beforehand.

      • @[email protected]
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        1•8 months ago

        But also resemble a motor with three pistons.

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        13•8 months ago

        Then they moved to motorcycle forks

        • Boxscape
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          Then they moved to motorcycle forks

          Maybe they can do Y-Wings next.

          Stay on target.

    • IninewCrow
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      28•8 months ago

      The meme has it backwards … worker should be saying … ‘I guess we produce motorcycles now’

      • snooggums
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        14•8 months ago

        “I guess we are getting history backwards now”

  • @[email protected]
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    5•8 months ago

    Kawasaki did toy pianos does that count

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    7•8 months ago

    Yamaha has the beginner wind instrument market by the balls right now. Conn-Selmer became garbage over the last 15 years or so, and Jupiter has been known to be “the nicest dogshit in the business” for some time. Yamaha literally just had to maintain the same level of instrument quality while the former “great brands” became cheap stencil crap.

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    14•8 months ago

    Is that a penis?

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      6•8 months ago

      Asking the important questions!

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        2•8 months ago

        Always

  • Ananääs
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    28•8 months ago

    Could be basically any japanese company 😅

    • @[email protected]
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      19•8 months ago

      Toyota made looms once.

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        2•8 months ago

        And I think Singer made cars.

      • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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        Far as I know, they still make sewing machines; they just don’t sell them in the States.

        Lamborghini started out making tractors.

        My parents had a Mitsubishi television about 15 years ago.

        Coleco started life as the Connecticut Leather Company.

        And it’ll never fail to amuse me how Michelin tells you where to find the best restaurants on the planet.

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          Michelin tells you where the best restaurants are so you can drive to them on their tires ;)

          Guinness started the world record book to settle bar bets.

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          4•8 months ago

          Lamborghini started out making tractors

          They still do.

      • Ananääs
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        3•8 months ago

        From looms to wrooms, why not!

      • IninewCrow
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        11•8 months ago

        Nintendo was founded in 1889 and originally made a type of playing card

        • LeTak
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          7•8 months ago

          Don’t forget the yakuza money laundry made by Nintendo

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            If you dig back enough, literally every Japanese corpo roots go to some usury house or gambling den in Edo period. Or worse, to aristocratic family. Or both.

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          You could write a story about a samurai and cowboy playing with Nintendo cards and drinking Coke and it would be historically accurate.

    • @[email protected]
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      8•8 months ago

      Just look at the Mr. Sparkle corporation: a joint venture of Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern

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  • @[email protected]
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    11•8 months ago

    Yamaha

  • @[email protected]
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    21•8 months ago

    Yamaha, Mitsubishi and a few others.

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    1•8 months ago

    I have one of their stereo receivers in my living room.

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    12•8 months ago

    Panasonic also makes bikes and pianos. Samsung does too. I think even Sony has a motorcycle concept so add them to the list.

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      Samsung also builds ships

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        Samsung also builds tanks

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        1•8 months ago

        also manufactures pharmaceuticals

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        6•8 months ago

        And tanks and jet engines

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        I would say Samsung is like the Korean GE but tbh it’s more like GE is a smaller American Samsung.

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    3•8 months ago

    Guess we are making Motorboat engines now

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    64•8 months ago

    No idea. Yamaha was doing pianos long before they were doing motorcycles, so it can’t be them. I can’t think of a company that started with motorcycles and then moved into pianos.

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      They co-developed the V10 engine for Lexus LFA super car. Also they were the acoustic engineers for the engine. https://global.yamaha-motor.com/showroom/cp/collection/am_lfa/

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      1•8 months ago

      It’s Yamaha. I have that piano.

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    2•8 months ago

    Looks like he’s having away from the conveyor belt or he’s got a front-butt.

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