That month’s issue of Japan Music Trades contains an article in which Genichi Kawakami pledges that Yamaha will “catch up with, and pass up, Steinway”. The same publication includes a full-page advertisement of Yamaha pianos, claiming the right to some of Steinway & Sons’ pianomaking technology innovations. Yamaha will continue to advertise Steinway family innovations as its own for many years to come. For example, Yamaha will claim credit to a bar on the piano plate, that had been used by Steinway & Sons since 1860s.