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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/

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 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
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[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
Disklavier
Guitars
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 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.

[edit] See also
High end audio
AV Receivers
All-Japan Band Association - Yamaha has long been a major sponsor of this event.