Yamaha’s been doing pianos a lot longer than the other things.
There is a reason their logo is three tuning forks.
Yep, Pianos since 1900 (they were found in 1897) and bikes since 1955. Source
Can’t wait for them to start mixing and matching products together. I wanna combination electric keyboard dirt bike.
No one gonna mention Kawasaki?
We haven’t even gotten into their swimming pool division yet.
They started with musical instruments. First one should have been " i guess we’re doing engines now"
My first instrument was an electric Yamaha bass guitar.
It was a beautiful beast.
Yamaha makes nice basses, no doubt about that. I’d love to own a vintage BB series bass someday.
So did Suzuki. My Viola music books were from Suzuki when I first learned to play.
Yamaha really knows how to do wood.
Yamaha’s got wood!
The logo has three crossed tuning forks.
I had a Yamaha flute and it was very good
They make pretty reliable trombones, too.
Same. Had a recorder
And this one time at Yamahband Camp.
They do decent guitars as well
Their logo is three tuning forks, after all
Diversification can be good business for some
Does anyone have the template for this?
I have so many memes I can make with it.
I don’t have it on hand but search “i guess we doin” and you should find it
I guess we doin Hatsune Miku now.
Yamaha built music sirens back in the 1950s as well. Since the Japanese public wanted to forget about the horrors of WW2, Yamaha sought to repurpose the common mechanical air raid siren into a musical device since loudspeakers weren’t a common thing yet. 4-10 electromechanical sirens representing each note of a scale were driven on a single driveshaft and each siren had an electromagnetic shutter that would open and close the ports where sound is emitted to play or silence the notes. A handful still survive and operate, though they’re sadly dwindling as Yamaha ceased supporting them a few decades ago.
Tour of a first generation music siren, siren activates at 4:46
The music sirens almost sound like bagpipes, which actually makes sense. Pipes are meant to be loud as hell and bounce off of mountainous terrain hence their favoring in highlandic cultures from Brittain to Anatolia, while air raid sirens are meant to be loud as fuck cause that means somebody is about to drop a lot of explosives, fire, or a sun on ya.
Huh, that’s actually kinda cool.
Speaking of Japanese economic recovery post-WWII, Sony also has a wild story. Operating out of a derelict apartment store, they used to run a radio repair shop and make Rice Cookers (quite poorly I might add).
Then they got permission from some electronic transistor patent holders to fabricate their own semiconductors and created things such as megaphones, tape recorders, and eventually radios. Cheap Japanese transistor radios became a huge export.
Now they make stereos, headphones, cameras, televisions, 4k rectal endoscopes, printers, etc.
You had to slide that endoscope in there, did you?
Somebody has to do it.
I’m a real man… I’m going to work at Hitachi making large heavy construction equipment… Like cranes and back loaders… Wait what do you mean “personal massager department”???
Hilariously, not 5 min ago I was laid up in pain from a horrible cramp running up the side of my ankle, preventing me from walking for a moment. And I was thinking “damn I need a massager right now” and was laughing about just buying a Hitachi for it.
I bought a different brand of massager, for massaging, and it works really well for loosening tight muscles and easing pain. Highly recommend getting one.
It did come with some attachments that seem tailored to groin muscles, but those can live in the junk drawer.
And yes, everyone who sees it in my house makes a joke about using it to whack-off, but I have no problem with that.
I bought one for my wife thinking we’d use it to lazily pump out orgasms, but 90% of its usage ended up on my shoulders and back. That was their original intention after all. They rebranded it to distance the Hitachi name from sex stuff, because that’s what everyone thinks it’s intended for now.
Anyway, go for the wireless one.
Do you have any suggestions?
I’d just get a real one - “Magic Wand Original” or the rechargeable version. There are a lot of fakes, so I’d avoid any counterfeit that tries to look real, or just get an altogether different massager. Go for a reputable authorized retailer like Adam and Eve or Good Vibrations.
It melts certain types of headaches too. And yes, you can use it on your dick.
I hear they have a wand that is magical…
What about Hitachi?
“back” “massagers”
Ah yes, Hitachi Station: the purveyor of power converters.
Yamaha also makes Trumpets (the music instrument)
Synthesizers, too.
What other type of trumpets are there besides the music variety?
You don’t have a computer trumpet?
An assistive listening device, a road interchange, a series of satellites, a news magazine, an ice cream cone, and some other stuff.
Wow
I totally would have thought of one of those. Good thing we clarified.
Flower
Yamaha makes lots of other musical instruments too.
The thing that puzzles me is that the Yamaha logo, 3 tuning forks, makes sense for instruments that you tune. But I’ve only seen it on their motorbikes.
It’s to show they also make instruments. This speaks for itself when you buy one of their instruments.
I’ve seen their logo on pianos and synths though.
the headstocks on their guitars are just the 3 tuning forks, AFAIK they don’t say “yamaha”
See what you mean: the Yamaha Revstar doesn’t have Yamaha on the headstock, but does have the tuning forks.
But other Yamahas don’t have the tuning forks but do say Yamaha. Eg. https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/musical_instruments/guitars_basses/el_guitars/sg/index.html
I think there was a period, pre Revstar, when motorbikes had the tuning forks but none of the Yamaha guitars did.
Also guitars and basses. And mixing consoles.
And I guess good ones too. They are one of the three brands that are acceptable to my son’s music teacher.
On a side note this is so weird. I just got done trying to explain to him why we are going to rent one of the brands his teacher strongly recommends instead of just using the cheap one we have. Then this is the first thing I see.
Yep I had a cheap no-name trumpet, it rested for a few years in the basement without proper maintenance. One of its 3 buttons was not press-able any longer ~ rusted shut or something. Meanwhile the Yamaha still worked, well oiled and all. Lesson: always unscrew the buttons of your trumpet & Yamaha Buttons do not rust that fast I guess…
Nintendo for a time.
Peugeot is a fun one too, from saw blades to petticoats to bicycles to pepper grinders to championship winning rally cars
Peugeot is what you get if adhd was a company.
Hitachi:
Love it when I can buy personal massage devices and heavy earth moving machinery from the same place
They also pioneered the perpendicular bit on spinning hard drives
Aren’t those the same thing?
They’re both known for making the earth shake.
Both useful for… YOUR MOM!
Oh BURN!
