Instruments and Equipment by Yamaha Corporation

Initially incorporated as Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd in 1887 to make reed organs.  And latter renamed the Yamaha Corporation after its founder Torakusu Yamaha in 1987.

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The company logo is designed to reflect the musical heritage and longevity of the company.  If you hadn't realised the logo is actually three tuning forks opposed at 120 degrees to each other and then interlocked.

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The company boosts (and probably quite rightly) to be the largest music company in the world.  The company has a wide depth and breath in its product range covering both traditional and electronic instruments.

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Personally, this company provided me with many of my first instruments being the DSR 2000 (my first Synth), FB-01 (my first 4 operator FM Synth) and Clavinova (My first electronic piano).

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And then my acquisition of instruments from this company dried up for a while as I experimented with instruments from other manufacturers.

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In recent years I have acquired a number of the icon synthesisers.  The first was a classic DX7 MKII.  While many argued that the MKI was the synthesiser to own I disagreed and bought my first DX7 shortly after separation from my ex-partner.

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Over the next couple of years I acquired a TX81Z and a TX802 FM Synthesisers.  Both extremely good examples of these now 40 year old instruments.  

 

Next came a pair of TX16W samplers.  I really had no intention to buy two of these but they came with a fairly extensive software library.  I am still working out how to back this library up as floppy disks now getting old.

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Finally in recent years I have added what I consider the iconic synths from the SY family.  The first acquisition was the SY85.  Sold as fully working, but wasn't I eventually got my money back and kept the synth to repair back to health.  A year later I found a mint copy of the SY77 and quickly snapped that up. Then following a trip to TOWIE country (Essex) I acquire a nearly mint original SY99.  OK one key was broken which will be fixed in the workshop videos.

 

The final synth from this manufacturer was a mint DX7 MKII FD (the one with the floppy disk).  As with many of my acquisitions this purchase was made through a contact.

 

In addition to the synthesisers I have also acquired a KX88, 88-key weighted MIDI controller which I have yet to do much,  And a CX5M music computer based on the Japanese MSX computer format of the early 80's with an  integrated FB-01 as a synthesiser.

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I am sure that there are other instruments that I have forgotten to list.  I am sure that they will pop up on this page at some point.