Yamaha Corporation
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| Yamaha Logo | |
| Industry | Conglomerate |
|---|---|
| Founded | October 12, 1897 |
| Headquarters | , Japan |
| Products | Musical instruments, Audio/Video, Electronics, Computer related products, Motorbikes, Jetskis |
| Revenue | 4.4 billion US$ (2003) |
| 267 million US$ (2003) | |
| 149 million US$ (2003) | |
Number of employees | 23,500 (3/2003) |
| Website | www.global.yamaha.com/ |
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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
==Products== Before you buy this crappy brand just remember this. they are made by dirty japs
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
- F-310 (Steel string acoustic)
- Pacifica (Electric)
- YSS-61
- YSS-62
- YAS-23
- YAS-51
- YAS-61
- YAS-62
- YTS-23
- YTS-51
- YTS-61
- YTS-62
Electric musical instruments
- AE Series
- EG112 BL
- PAC Series
- RGX Series
- SA500
- SA503 TVL
- SA2200
- SG2000
- SF550
- RBX Series
- TRB Series
- BB Series
Electronic musical instruments
- Clavinova CVP Series
- YPG series
- Yamaha PSR-185
Digital stage pianos
- 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 Tyros
- Yamaha Tyros 2
- Yamaha DGX-200 series
- Yamaha DGX-300 series
- Yamaha DGX-500 series
- Yamaha DJ-X Series
- 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
- Analog and digital mixing consoles
- Digital audio workstations
- Digital mixing engines
- Public address loudspeakers
- Power amplifiers
- Audio signal processing
- Studio monitor loudspeakers
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 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.
See also
- High end audio
- AV Receivers
- All-Japan Band Association - Yamaha has long been a major sponsor of this event.
External links
- Welcome To The World Of Yamaha - main Yamaha Corporation of America entry site
- Articles needing cleanup from March 2007
- Cleanup tagged articles without a reason field from March 2007
- Wikipedia pages needing cleanup from March 2007
- Yamaha
- Audio equipment manufacturers
- Compact Disc player manufacturers
- Loudspeaker manufacturers
- Phonograph manufacturers
- Sound amplifier manufacturers
- Synthesizer manufacturing companies
- Companies headquartered in Shizuoka
- Electronics companies of Japan
- Manufacturing companies of Japan
- Musical instrument manufacturing companies
- Guitar manufacturing companies
- Percussion instrument manufacturing companies
- Piano manufacturing companies