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Encyclopedia > Yamaha (manufacturer)

Yamaha Corporation
Yamaha Logo
Type
Founded October 12, 1897
Headquarters Japan
Industry Conglomerate
Products Musical instruments, Audio/Video, Electronics, Computer related products
Revenue 4.4 billion US$ (2003)
Operating income 267 million US$ (2003)
Net income 149 million US$ (2003)
Employees 23,500 (3/2003)
Website http://www.global.yamaha.com/

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 musical instruments, integrated circuits, 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. Yamaha Logo, claiming fair use This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), also known as operating income and operating profit, is a term used to describe a companys earnings. ... Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... The Tokyo Stock Exchange ), or TSE, is one of the largest stock exchange markets in the world by monetary volume located in Tokyo, Japan, second only to the New York Stock Exchange. ... Music is a form of art and entertainment or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... Integrated circuit showing memory blocks, logic and input/output pads around the periphery A monolithic integrated circuit (also known as IC, microchip, silicon chip, computer chip or chip) is a miniaturized electronic circuit (consisting mainly of semiconductor devices, as well as passive components) which has been manufactured in the surface... Torakusu Yamaha (山葉 寅楠 Yamaha Torakusu; April 20, 1851 – August 8, 1916) was the founder of the Yamaha Corporation. ... Hamamatsu (浜松市; -shi) is a city located in western Shizuoka, Japan. ... Shizuoka Prefecture (静岡県; Shizuoka-ken) is located in the Chubu region on Honshu island, Japan. ... Korg Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronic musical instruments. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Sequential Circuits Inc. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Steinberg is a German musical equipment and software company. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Other companies in the Yamaha group include:

  • Yamaha Motor Company
  • Yamaha Fine Technologies Co., Ltd.
  • Yamaha Livingtec Corporation
  • Yamaha Metanix Corporation

Yamaha Motor Company Limited (ヤマハ発動機株式会社) TYO: 7272 , a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company, was initially part of the Yamaha Corporation. ...

Products

A grand piano, with the lid up. ... An electric grand piano is a particular type of piano manufactured and marketed by Yamaha, Kawai and Helpinstill during the 70s and 80s, although experimental instruments of similar type were made as early as the late 1920s. ... The term synthesiser is also used to mean frequency synthesiser, an electronic system found in communications. ... A music workstation is piece of electronic musical equipment providing the facilities of: a sound module, a music sequencer and (usually) a musical keyboard. ... The Yamaha SY85 was a digital music workstation introduced in 1992. ... The Motif is a workstation Synthesiser released by Yamaha Corporation in August 2001. ... The Motif ES is a workstation synthesizer by Yamaha Corporation and the successor of the Motif. ... Look up Mo, MO in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A digital piano is a modern electronic musical instrument designed to serve primarily as an alternative to a traditional piano, both in the way it feels to play and in the sound produced. ... The Clavinova is a musical instrument created by the Yamaha Corporation. ... The Yamaha PSR-185 is a musical keyboard produced by the Yamaha corporation from 1994-1996. ... Roland RD-700 - a typical digital stage piano Yamaha P-250 - a digital stage piano with built-in speakers Casio AP-38 - a typical digital piano- notice the integrated modesty panel & pedals A stage piano is a digital piano that reproduces sound electronically by the use of sampled or digitally... Yamaha P-250 digital piano The Yamaha P-250 is a digital stage piano. ... Electone is the trademark used for electronic organs produced by Yamaha. ... The classic Hammond electronic organ, invented in the 1930s and popular for decades thereafter. ... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, or phase distortion. ... The Yamaha CS-80 was an analog polyphonic synthesizer (first marketed in 1977) that represented a milestone in the history of sound synthesis. ... The Yamaha DX7 was a synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1986, based on FM synthesis. ... The Yamaha SHS-10 keytar The Yamaha SHS-10 is a keytar (i. ... Yamaha AN1x, produced by Yamaha Corporation in 1997, is an analog physical modeling synthesizer, digitally modeling analog sound. ... The Yamaha GX1, along with its predecessor, the Electone GX-707, was an analog polyphonic synthesizer developed by Yamaha as a test bed for later consumer synths. ... The Yamaha RM1x was a MIDI-controlled synthesizer and sequencer, manufactured by Yamaha from the mid to late 1990s. ... The Yamaha TX81Z is a rack-mounted (keyboard-less) phase modulation music synthesizer, which was released in 1986. ... Different kinds of guitars The guitar is a fretted and stringed musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and is also widely known as a solo classical instrument. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case. ... Yamaha Drums Logo Yamaha Drums is a subsidiary of the Yamaha Corporation. ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set) is mostly a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer. ... A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ... A wind band, also called concert band, symphonic band, symphonic winds, wind orchestra, wind symphony, or wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of several members of the woodwind instrument family, brass instrument family and percussion instrument family. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... Image of a trumpet. ... A woodwind instrument is a wind instrument in which sound is produced by blowing through a mouthpiece against an edge or by a vibrating reed, and in which the pitch is varied by opening or closing holes in the body of the instrument. ... The constraints involved in marching require that musicians use specialized instruments. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Drumline. ... Marching brass instruments are brass instruments designed to be played while moving. ... In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was originally any device that recorded and played back a sequence of control information for an electronic musical instrument. ... The Yamaha QY10 is a hand-held Music workstation produced by the Yamaha Corporation in the early 1990s. ... A sound chip is an integrated circuit (i. ... The AY-3-8912 was a 3 voice sound chip designed by General Instruments. ... The Atari 520ST Atari 1040STF with SC1224 color monitor The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was commercially popular from 1985 to the early 1990s. ... Sony MSX 1, Model HitBit-10-P MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s. ... The Intellivision is a video game console released by Mattel in 1980; development of the console began in 1978 (less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the legendary Atari 2600). ... Sony MSX 1, Model HitBit-10-P MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s. ... Philips HQ in Amsterdam Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics N.V.), usually known as Philips, (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. ... The YM2413, also called OPLL, is a cost-reduced sound chip manufactured by Yamaha Corporation and based on their YM3812 (OPL2). ... Sony MSX 1, Model HitBit-10-P MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s. ... The Yamaha YM2151, also known as the OP-M (FM Operator Type-M) is a sound chip in the YM2100 family. ... The Sharp X68000, often referred to as the X68k, was a home computer released only in Japan. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The YM3526, better known as OPL (for FM Operator Type L), is a sound chip that was manufactured by Yamaha. ... Yamaha YM3812 The Yamaha YM3812 also known as the OPL2 (OPL is an acronym for FM Operator Type-L) is a sound chip (i. ... AdLib, Inc. ... The Sound Blaster family of sound cards was for many years the de facto standard for audio on the IBM PC compatible system platform, before PC audio became commoditized, and backward-compatibility became less of a feature. ... A sound card is a computer expansion card that can input and output sound under control of computer programs. ... The Yamaha YMF262 also known as the OPL3 (OPL is an acronym for FM Operator Type-L), is an improved version of the sound chip Yamaha YM3812 (OPL2). ... The Sound Blaster family of sound cards was for many years the de facto standard for audio on the IBM PC compatible system platform, before PC audio became commoditized, and backward-compatibility became less of a feature. ... Sony MSX 1, Model HitBit-10-P MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s. ... YM2612, aka OPN2, is a six-channel sound synthesizer IC, or sound chip, produced by Yamaha. ... The Sega Mega Drive ) was a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan (1988), Europe (1990) and most of the rest of the world. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of movies, video games, music, or other media. ... 3D audio effects are a group of sound effects that attempt to widen the stereo image produced by two loudspeakers or stereo headphones, or to create the illusion of sound sources placed anywhere in 3 dimensional space, including behind, above or below the listener. ... In telecommunications a mixer is a frequency mixer. ... A ring tone is the sound made by a telephone when ringing. ... Professional audio, also pro audio, can be used a term to refer to both a type of audio equipment as well as a type of audio engineering application. ... BBC Local Radio Mark III radio mixing desk In professional audio, a mixing console, mixing desk (Brit. ... A Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. ... A public address system, abbreviated PA system, is an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas. ... Mission Cyrus 1 Hi Fi integrated audio amplifier An audio amplifier is an electronic amplifier that works with audio frequencies (generally 20 hertz to 20,000 hertz). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Studio monitors, also called reference monitors are loudspeakers specifically designed for audio production applications such as recording, film, television and radio studios. ... The Yamaha DSP-1 was a revolutionary piece of early home theater surround sound equipment, produced in 1985 by the Yamaha Corporation. ... Surround sound is the concept of expanding the spatial imaging of audio playback from one dimension (mono/Left-Right) to two or three dimensions. ... The Yamaha MDR-1. ... The 28 line was one of Yamahas nicer sets of components for home use. ... The Natural Sound-A100 model loudspeaker is a high efficiency three-way floorstanding speaker that was sold with the 28 series components, or could be bought separately. ...

See also

YAMAHA High end audio refers to audio equipment that is created to be the best, regardless of what it might turn out to cost in terms of price. ... // Overview AV Receivers are one of the many consumer electronics components typically found within a home theatre system. ...

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. General MIDI or GM is a specification for synthesizers which imposes several requirements beyond the more abstract MIDI standard. ... A PCI Yamaha XG sound card with a YMF724E-V chipset. ...



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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