Yamaha in short...

Yamaha Corporation
Type
Founded	October 12, 1897
Headquarters	Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan
Industry	Conglomerate
Products	Musical instruments, Audio/Video, Electronics, Computer related products, Motorbikes, Personal water craft
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/

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All about yamaha...

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 in 1887 as a piano and reed organ manufacturer by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Company, Limited (日本楽器製造株式会社, Nippon Gakki Seizō Kabushiki Gaisha^?) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, and incorporated on October 12, 1897. 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].

After WWII, company president Gen-ichi Kawakami, repurposed the remains of the company's war-time production machinery and the company's expertise in metallurgical technologies to the manufacture of motorcycles. The YA-1 (aka Akatombo, the "Red Dragonfly"), of which 125 were built in the first year of production (1954), was named in honor of the founder. It was a 125cc, single cylinder, two-stroke, streetbike patterned after the German DKW RT125 (which the British munitions firm, BSA, had also copied in the post-war era and manufactured as the Bantam, and Harley-Davidson as the Hummer). In 1955, the success of the YA-1 resulted in the founding of the Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.

Yamaha has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments (including "silent" pianos, drums, guitars, violins, violas and celli), as well as a leading manufacturer of semiconductors (begun in 1971), audio/visual and other computer related products, sporting goods, home appliances and furniture, specialty metals, machine tools, and industrial robots.

In October 1987, on the 100th anniversary, its name was changed to THE YAMAHA CORPORATION.

In 1989, Yamaha shipped the world's first CD recorder. Since then, Yamaha has purchased Sequential Circuits in 1988 and bought a significant share of competitor Korg in 1989–1993. It also acquired German Audio Software manufacturers Steinberg in 2004, from Pinnacle.

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 [hide] 1 Products 1.1 Acoustic musical instruments 1.2 Electric musical instruments 1.3 Electronic musical instruments 1.4 Professional audio 1.5 Home electronics 1.6 Software synthesizers 1.7 Sound chips 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] Products

One of Yamaha's products: musical instruments

[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

• Disklavier

Guitars

• CG-100A (Nylon string classical)
• F-310 (Steel string acoustic)
• Pacifica (Electric)

Percussion instruments

• drum kits

String instruments

Brass instruments

Soprano saxophones

• YSS-475II
• YSS-675
• YSS-875EX

Alto saxophones

• YAS-23
• YAS-475
• YAS-62II
• YAS-82Z
• YAS-875EX

Tenor saxophones

• YTS-23
• YTS-475
• YTS-62II
• YTS-82Z
• YTS-875EX

Baritone Saxophones

• YBS-52
• YBS-62

Clarinets

• Advantage
• 150
• 250
• 350
• 450
• 850
• 1050

[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

• Clavinova CVP Series
• YPG series
• Yamaha PSR-185

Digital stage pianos

• Yamaha P-250

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

• Yamaha PortaTone (PSS) Series
• PortaSound (PSR) series
• Yamaha PC-50
• Yamaha PSR-185
• Yamaha PSR-9000
• Yamaha PSR-9000 Pro
• Yamaha PSR-S500
• Yamaha PSR-S700
• Yamaha PSR-S900
• Yamaha PSR-3000
• Yamaha Tyros
• Yamaha Tyros 2
• Yamaha DGX-200 series
• Yamaha DGX-300 series
• Yamaha DGX-500 series
• Yamaha DGX 620
• Yamaha DJ-X Series

Music workstations

• Yamaha SY77
• Yamaha SY99
• Yamaha SY85
• Yamaha EX5
• Yamaha QS 300
• Motif
• Motif ES
• Motif XS
• MM6
• Yamaha MO
• V50

Synthesizers

• Yamaha AN1x
• Yamaha CS-1x
• Yamaha CS-2x
• Yamaha CS-6x
• Yamaha CS-01
• Yamaha CS-10
• Yamaha CS-15
• Yamaha CS-20m
• Yamaha CS-30/CS-30L
• Yamaha CS-40m
• Yamaha CS-5
• Yamaha CS-50
• Yamaha CS-60
• Yamaha CS-70m
• Yamaha CS-80
• Yamaha DX7
• Yamaha DX11
• Yamaha FS1R
• Yamaha GX1
• Yamaha RM1x
• Yamaha S90
• Yamaha S90 ES
• Yamaha SHS-10
• Yamaha VL1

Tone generators

• Yamaha MU-series
• Yamaha TG77
• Yamaha TX81Z
• Yamaha VL70m

Music sequencers

• Yamaha QY10
• Yamaha QY100
• Yamaha QY700

[edit] Professional audio

• Analog and digital mixing consoles
• Digital audio workstations
• Digital mixing engines
  • M7CL
• Public address loudspeakers
• Power amplifiers
• Audio signal processing
• Studio monitor loudspeakers

[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
  • Yamaha MDR-1
  • Yamaha MDR-10

[edit] Software synthesizers

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

[edit] Sound chips

• • Yamaha YM2149, used in the Atari ST, MSX, Intellivision computers
  • Yamaha Y8950, used in MSX-Audio cardridge for MSX, made by Philips
  • Yamaha YM2413 (a.k.a. OPLL), used in MSX in MSX Music cardridges like the FM-PAC
  • Yamaha YM2151 (a.k.a. OPM), used in X68000
  • Yamaha YM2203 (a.k.a. OPN), used in PC88 and PC98
  • Yamaha YM2608 (a.k.a. OPNA), used in PC88 and PC98
  • Yamaha YM3526 (a.k.a. OPL)
  • Yamaha YM3812 (a.k.a. OPL2), used in AdLib and early Sound Blaster sound cards
  • Yamaha YMF262 (a.k.a. OPL3), used in Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 and later cards
  • Yamaha YMF278 (a.k.a. OPL4), used in Moonsound cartridge for MSX
  • Yamaha YM2612 (a.k.a. OPN2), used in Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis)
  • Yamaha YMF7xx (Embedded audio chipset in some laptops and low-end soundcards)
  • Yamaha YMU786 (a.k.a. MA-7), used in mobile phones to process various audio sources; sound effect, 3D audio effect, sound mixer, ringtone generation, etc.
  • SCSP Sega Saturn Custom Sound Processor used in SEGA Saturn and Sega Titan Video (ST-V) arcade hardware
  • Yamaha Super Intelligent Sound Processor (AICA) for Dreamcast and Naomi

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.

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