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Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant - always yours

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Figure 9.1 Yamaha Disklavier<br />

CREATING BARRIERS 273<br />

the second place brand far behind. Their closest competition<br />

did not make pianos but, rather, made retrofi t systems that<br />

added the digital capability to existing pianos.<br />

Yamaha developed several signifi cant barriers to competition.<br />

The fi rst is the Yamaha brand. Yamaha, through its piano

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