Yahama
The Yamaha
Corporation is a multinational corporation and conglomerate based in
Japan with a wide range of products and services, predominantly musical
instruments, motorcycles, power sports equipment, and electronics.
Yamaha was established in 1887 as a piano and reed organ manufacturer by
Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Company, Limited (literally Japan
Musical Instrument Manufacturing Corporation) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
prefecture, and was 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.
Yamaha electronic pianos continue to be a successful, popular and
respected product. For example the Yamaha YPG-625 was given the award "Keyboard
of the Year" and "Product of the Year" in 2007 from The Music and
Sound Retailer magazine, Yamaha Corporation is also widely known for
their music teaching programming that began in the 1980s.
Yamaha has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of musical
instruments (including pianos, "silent" pianos, drums, guitars,
brass instruments, woodwinds, violins, violas, celli, vibraphones, and
saxophones), as well as a leading manufacturer of semiconductors,
audio/visual, computer related products, sporting goods, home
appliances, specialty metals, and industrial robots.
