10 Facts About Yamaha Corporation

Yamaha Corporation made the first commercially successful digital synthesizer, the Yamaha Corporation DX7, in 1983.

In 2002, Yamaha Corporation closed down its archery product business that was started in 1959.

In July 2007, Yamaha bought out the minority shareholding of the Kemble family in Yamaha-Kemble Music Ltd, Yamaha's UK import and musical instrument and professional audio equipment sales arm, the company being renamed Yamaha Music U K Ltd in autumn 2007.

Yamaha Corporation intends to continue manufacturing at the Bosendorfer facilities in Austria.

Yamaha Corporation is widely known for their music teaching programme that began in the 1950s.

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Yamaha Corporation electronics have proven to be successful, popular and respected products.

For example, the Yamaha Corporation YPG-625 was awarded "Keyboard of the Year" and "Product of the Year" in 2007 from The Music and Sound Retailer magazine.

Yamaha Corporation Music Foundation is an organization established in 1966 by the authority of the Japanese Ministry of Education for the purpose of promoting music education and music popularization.

Yamaha Corporation began to get involved with the sale and production of Vocaloid applications themselves with Lily being the first; Lily was later sold via Internet Co.

Yamaha Corporation announced a version of the Vocaloid 2 software for the iPhone and iPad, which exhibited at the Y2 Autumn 2010 Digital Content Expo in Japan.