The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社) TYO: 7951 is a Japanese company with a large number of product areas. Sales offerings include motorcycles (see Yamaha Motor Corporation), musical instruments, integrated circuits, and home electronics. It was founded by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (日本楽器製造株式会社) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture. Yamaha held major share of Korg in 1989-1993, acquired Sequential Circuits in 1988 and Steinberg in 2004.
Corporate Brand & Logo
The Yamaha Brand has seen 10 different versions and revisions since its inctroduction in 1898. In 1967 Yamaha Corporation introduced a standardized brand, the tuning fork "cross" we see today. The actual logo seen at the top right corner of the page did not fully develop until 1998 when it was finally recognized as the standard Yamaha Logo. For more information you can go to: http://www.global.yamaha.com/about/brand/index.html
Products
- Motorcycles (Yamaha Motor Corporation)
- Pianos
- Portable Keyboards, e.g.
- PSR-540
- PSR-340
- PSR-740
- Workstations
- Digital pianos
- Yamaha Clavinova CVP Series
- Yamaha Clavinova CLP Series
- Digital stage pianos
- Electone electronic organs
- Synthesizers
- Guitars
- Yamaha Drums
Band and orchestral instruments
- String instruments
- Brass instruments
- Woodwind instruments
- Marching instruments
- For an in depth look at Yamaha's instrument line, where better to go than the source? http://yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/Home/YamahaHome/
- Music sequencers
- Sound chips
- Yamaha YM2149 - used in the Atari ST, MSX, Intellivision and ZX Spectrum 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 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) - usually used together with YMF262, used in Moonsound cardridge for MSX
- 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.
- Pro Audio
- Digital Mixers
- Analog Mixers
- Audio Workstations
- Mixing Engines
- Signal and Effect processing
- Speakers (powered and unpowered)/(active and passive)
- Home Electronics
- Yamaha DSP-1 - An early home theater surround sound component produced in 1985
- Music Disc Recorders
- Hi-Fi Audio
- 28 Series components(produced in the 1980s)
- Natural Sound loudspeaker line
- NS-A100 floorstanding speakers(produced in the 1980s)
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.
External links
- yamaha.com
- music.yamaha.com
- global.yamaha.com
- CVP Users Group [1]