Yamaha at a Glance

Company founder Torakusu Yamaha ventured into the domestic production of organs after being asked to repair an imported reed organ. Shortly thereafter, he began the production of pianos. In this way, Torakusu Yamaha laid the foundation for Yamaha's musical instrument business, which remains the Company's core business to this day.

With the desire to communicate the joy of music to a great number of people, Yamaha began efforts to popularize music. While spreading music culture, Yamaha began leveraging the technologies and sensitivities, cultivated through the development of musical instruments to develop new products, thereby expanding its business domains.

Yamaha expanded its product domains to extend from acoustic musical instruments to digital ones and encompass various instrument types, such as strings, winds, and drums. By doing so, Yamaha became a globally unique and comprehensive musical instrument manufacturer involved in the production of a diverse range of musical instruments.

Recognizing the need to develop electronic components on its own in order to improve the sound quality of digital musical instruments, Yamaha began the in-house manufacture of semiconductors. Yamaha's unique LSI helped the Company create a large number of original digital musical instruments and audio equipment, thereby driving a genuine trend of digitization. Also, Yamaha made use of its production technologies for musical instruments to commence its FA equipment and automobile interior wood components businesses.