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Yamaha Corporation
Yamaha Logo
Type
Founded October 12, 1897
Headquarters Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan
Industry Conglomerate
Products Musical instruments, Audio/Video, Electronics, Computer related products
Revenue 4.4 billion US$ (2003)
Operating income 267 million US$ (2003)
Net income 149 million US$ (2003)
Employees 23,500 (3/2003)
Website www.global.yamaha.com/
headquarters of Yamaha Corporation
headquarters of Yamaha Corporation
“Yamaha” redirects here. For other uses, see Yamaha (disambiguation).

The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社 Yamaha Kabushiki Gaisha?) (TYO: 7951 ) is a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments and electronic products.

It was founded by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (日本楽器製造株式会社 Nippon Gakki Seizō Kabushiki Gaisha?) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture. Yamaha bought a significant share of Korg in 1989–1993, acquired Sequential Circuits in 1988 and Steinberg in 2004. The company's origins as a musical instrument manufacturer is still reflected today in the group's logo — a trio of interlocking tuning forks.[1]

Yamaha Corporation is also widely known for their music program during the mid 1980s, and was compared to Shin'ichi Suzuki's method in a sense.

Other companies in the Yamaha group include:

  • Yamaha Motor Company
  • Yamaha Fine Technologies Co., Ltd.
  • Yamaha Livingtec Corporation
  • Yamaha Metanix Corporation



Contents

[edit] Products

[edit] Acoustic musical instruments

Upright pianos M1 M450 M475 M500 P22 P600 T116 T121

  • U1
  • U2

U3 U5

Grand pianos

  • GB1
  • GC1
  • GC1FP
  • GC1G
  • C1
  • C2
  • C3
  • C5
  • C6
  • C7
  • CFIIIS
  • S4
  • S6

Player pianos

Guitars

  • F-310 (Steel string acoustic)
  • Pacifica (Electric)

Percussion instruments

String instruments

Brass instruments

Soprano saxophones

  • YSS-61
  • YSS-62

Alto saxophones

  • YAS-23
  • YAS-51
  • YAS-61
  • YAS-62

Tenor saxophones

  • YTS-23
  • YTS-51
  • YTS-61
  • YTS-62

Clarinets

[edit] Electric musical instruments

Electric guitars

  • AE Series
  • EG112 BL
  • PAC Series
  • RGX Series
  • SA500
  • SA503 TVL
  • SA2200
  • SG2000
  • SF550

Bass guitars

  • RBX Series
  • TRB Series
  • BB Series

[edit] Electronic musical instruments

Digital pianos

Digital stage pianos

Electone electronic organs

  • EL-25
  • EL-40
  • EL-900
  • ELX-1
  • AR-100
  • AR-80
  • STAGEA
    • ELS-01C
    • ELS-01
    • ELS-01X
    • ELB-01 Mini

Portable Keyboards

Music workstations

Synthesizers

Tone generators

Music sequencers

[edit] Professional audio

[edit] Home electronics

  • Yamaha DSP-1 - An early home theater surround sound component produced in 1985
  • Home stereo components
    • 28 Series components (produced in the 1980s)
    • Natural Sound loudspeaker line
    • NS-A100 floorstanding speakers (produced in the 1980s)
  • Music disc recorders


[edit] Software synthesizers

    • S-YG20
    • S-YXG50
    • S-YXG70
    • S-YXG100
    • S-YXG100 PVL

[edit] Sound chips

[edit] See also

Yamaha developed their own set of improvements to the General MIDI standard and called it XG. Many of their current range of products, from their high-end synths to "toy" keyboards, support the XG standard.

Yamaha is also known for the Yamaha Music Education System, a renowned system for teaching musical skills to children between the ages of 3 and 9.

All-Japan Band Association - Yamaha has long been a major sponsor of this event.

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