First Video of MOTIF XF with Bert @ Sonicstate.com
12 August 2010 The respected team at www.sonicstate.com just finished putting the final edits to their overview demo video of MOTIF XF featuring Bert Smorenburg.
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Musikmesse 2010: New Keyboard Products
24 March 2010
With DGX-640 Yamaha continues the well accepted series of compact digital pianos with accompaniment. This allrounder allows you to dive into different musical worlds with more than 530 voices and more than 160 accompaniment styles.
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Musikmesse 2010: New Pianos & Keyboard Instruments
24 March 2010
For more than a century Yamaha has been building grand pianos, continuously perfecting both skills and designs in the pursuit of musical excellence. During the nineteen years following the launch of the very successful CFIIIS concert grand pianos, Ya...
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Yamaha MusicSoft Now Accepts Payment in Euro and Pounds Sterling
25 February 2010
Yamaha's official online store, Yamaha MusicSoft, now offers users the option of paying for all products in Great British pounds (£), euros (€) or US dollars ($). An easy to use drop down menu at the top of the screen gives all us...
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Yamaha Launch New Special Site for Clavinova
18 December 2009
Yamaha's range of Clavinova digital pianos has led the way in sound quality, technology and playability since the introduction of the first ever Clavinova in 1983.
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IN-DEPTH REVIEW: Keyboard Player Takes a Look at Yamaha Silent Pianos
25 November 2009
LIKE all great ideas, the Yamaha Silent Piano is an astonishing simple concept. Take a good acoustic piano, take a good digital piano and then marry them together. Devise a way that a performer can switch simply between the two sour...
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Yamaha International Piano Series Continues at Malvern Theatres with Stephen Hough
17 November 2009
The critically acclaimed Yamaha International Piano series continues at Malvern Theatres later this month (November 28th) as one of the world's greatest concert artists, Stephen Hough performs an inspired programme of works by Bach, Chopin a...
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New Version of Digital Music Notebook Player, Version 3.0, is Released with Major Improvements
12 November 2009
Digital Music Notebook is a service that allows you to easily learn your favorite songs and take lessons.
Compared to other more traditional digital sheetmusic services, the Digital Music Notebook player provides a lot of useful interactivity...
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Up To £2,550 Extra In Part Exchange If You Trade In Your Old Acoustic Or Digital Piano For a Beautiful New Yamaha During 2009
15 October 2009
More notes for your old piano with the Yamaha Piano Upgrade
There's never been a better time to cash in your old piano and invest in a new Yamaha, thanks to Yamaha's groundbreaking new Piano Upgrade Bonus scheme that enables the custo...
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Yamaha MusicSoft is now available in German, Spanish, Italian, and French and accepts cardless payment through PayPal.
12 October 2009
Yamaha MusicSoft (www.yamahamusicsoft.com) has added additional languages to their website in order to better serve European Yamaha customers. The site can now be read in Germa...
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Yamaha AvantGrand Hybrid Piano Impresses and Astounds at Annual European Piano Teachers Conference
18 September 2009
Building on recent acclaim from Classic FM, Pianist Magazine, Piano magazine and a range of international classical artists, the much talked about Yamaha AvantGrand 'Hybrid' piano took to the stage during August at both the European Piano Teache...
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TYROS3 Expands!
22 July 2009
Great news for Yamaha Tyros3 owners as Yamaha announces the imminent launch of exciting new “Premium Content” for this popular instrument…
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Yamaha’s Expanding Scholarship Programme Hitting The High Notes Around The UK
03 June 2009
Yamaha continues to expand its already significant support for music education and up-coming talent through a series of scholarship programmes and performance opportunities that now support some of the finest musical talent from the UK'...
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Hit the High Notes for Fewer Notes as Yamaha Pianos Go Interest Free
27 April 2009
Yamaha is offering unprecedented finance deals on selected new grand and upright pianos. Owning a beautiful Yamaha has never been easier!
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Yamaha and MK Music Service Present Free Live Masterclass with Leading Piano Professor
26 April 2009
For all music lovers, Yamaha is presenting a real treat: piano professor and musical mastermind, Philip Jenkins, will be giving a piano masterclass featuring select piano students... and for the audience, Yamaha is opening it up to the p...
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Sublime Performances for the Yamaha Brass Bursary at 113th Feis Ceoil
22 April 2009
Feis Ceoil is an annual music festival that has taken place in Ireland since 1896. Promoting excellence in the learning and performance of music across all ages, levels and disciplines this year's Feis Ceoil saw the introduction of the Yamaha Br...
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Quality Instruments for Education – Helpful Advice for the Musical Student
28 March 2009
The Music Industries Association (MIA) have produced a free book offering a wealth of advice on the benefits of playing a musical instrument as well as quality advice on buying one. Covering all ...
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‘Classic Foundations’: Don’t Miss Marina Nadiradze Performing with Milton Keynes City Orchestra!
13 March 2009
Award-winning and acclaimed pianist Marina Nadiradze - one of the most exciting talents of her generation - will perform with Milton Keynes City Orchestra on Sunday 26th April at Milton Keynes Theatre. Music lovers will have the opport...
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Yamaha International Piano Recital Series Reaches Grand Finale with Nikolai Demidenko at Malvern Theatres
13 March 2009
Acclaimed pianist Nikolai Demidenko concludes the highly successful International Piano Recital Series on Friday 3rd April.
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Yamaha Partners Guildhall School of Music & Drama in New Piano Scholarship
05 March 2009
Yamaha Music UK has further expanded its acclaimed conservatoire and specialist music school support programme with the announcement of a Piano Scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama who have named Ashley Fripp as th...
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Meet the Yamaha EKB Team – James Sargeant
02 March 2009
This is the first in a series of articles introducing members of the Yamaha team and their roles within the organisation.
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25 Year Clavinova Celebration Give Away
09 February 2009
2008 was the 25th anniversary of the Clavinova Digital Piano range. To celebrate this milestone Yamaha UK, in conjunction with Classic FM, gave away 25 new CLP Clavinova's to needy and charitable organisations across the country. Org...
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Yamaha Club Free Magazine
02 February 2009
The Yamaha Club Magazine is an independent, full colour, glossy publication dedicated to owners of Yamaha digital keyboards and Clavinova digital pianos. The bi-monthly magazine is filled with hints and tips for getting the very best from the...
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Yamaha Clavinova is the Winner - Again!
22 January 2009
The Yamaha Clavinova range of digital pianos celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2008. As the perfect end to this celebration year, the Clavinova CLP range has just been voted 'Best Digital Pianos' in a prestigious music industry survey....
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Set Your Heart Racing this Valentine's Day with the London Philharmonic Orchestra!
22 January 2009
Following professional recognition from some of the world's greatest pianists, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Raymond Gubbay in association with Yamaha, proudly present a special Valentine's Day Concert on Saturday 14th February ...
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Modus H11 – The Digital Piano for the 21st Century
16 January 2009
The stunning new Modus H11 - an ultra-contemporary digital grand piano for 21st Century lifestyle - is due to arrive in the UK at the end of January 2009. Presented in an elegant, contemporary cabinet the H11 brings a new perspective to piano d...
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Yamaha Presents Acclaimed pianist John Taylor and Special Guest Diana Torto at The 606 Jazz Club!
11 January 2009
Yamaha's innovative partnership with Chelsea's award winning 606 Club continues on Thursday 15th January with a not to be missed evening featuring multi-award winning Pianist John Taylor with a very special guest appearance by Diana.
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Slim Line Models Bring a New Dimension to the Clavinova Range
08 January 2009
The recently introduced CLP300 series Clavinovas have been very well received by pianists across the world. In addition to the current range, Yamaha is proud to present two new members of the CLP family, the CLP-S306 and S308. These e...
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Yamaha Launch New Homeworld Website
10 December 2008
Yamaha is delighted to announce the opening of a new website bringing together the exclusive network of 'Homeworld' showrooms. Homeworld is an initiative by the Yamaha Home Keyboard Division (known as EKB) to create a high class environment for cust...
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Yamaha Teams Up With Worldwide Charity At Exclusive UK Show Featuring Badly Drawn Boy
25 November 2008
Founded by Bob Benjamin, a rock music manager and a sufferer of Parkinson's Disease since the mid 1990s, the Light of Day Foundation, which supports Parkinson's Disease and ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) charities, began when Benjamin asked ...
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New Website to Support Internet Services
20 November 2008
For a number of years Yamaha have offered a wide range of musical services and support via the Internet. This includes Yamaha's unique Internet Direct Connection and Digital Music Notebook. These features offer a wide range of software opt...
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Formula one racing car designer takes fast lane to Festival Hall with Yamaha and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
11 November 2008
Following professional recognition as the most outstanding amateur classical piano talent in the UK, Formula One racing car designer Dominic Piers Smith has now realised his dreams to perform with a world-class orchestra at London's prestigious Roy...
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Robin Hood, Yamaha and the Teenage Cancer Trust!
11 November 2008
Yamaha recently was proud to help The Teenage Cancer Trust in providing instruments for a Music Workshop at the annual TCT conference in Sherwood Forrest Nottingham.
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Yamaha UK Take to the Road with Tyros3!
10 November 2008
Yamaha's UK team have been wowing audiences all over the country with the amazing new flagship keyboard, Tyros3. Starting with a special preview showing at the UK's largest keyboard fair at Pakefield in Suffolk, and culminating in a showca...
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Yamaha's acclaimed "Music Encounters" Free First Lesson Scheme Extended for Third Year
10 November 2008
Yamaha Music Schools have announced plans to extend their acclaimed and award winning music encounters scheme for a third year throughout this Autumn and Winter.
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Yamaha Opens Dedicated Piano Artist Support Centre in London
22 October 2008
London becomes the latest major city to host a dedicated Yamaha Artist Services Europe (YASE) centre. Based at Chappell Yamaha London in Wardour Street, the London centre joins an expanding global network established in 1987 in New York.
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Yamaha Club Christmas Party
06 October 2008
The Yamaha Club is an independent organisation dedicated to Yamaha owners of either the digital keyboard range or the Clavinova digital piano range. Producing a bimonthly magazine full of hints and tips about how to get the best from diffe...
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Yamaha and Classic FM Celebrate Clavinova 25th Anniversary by Supporting Music in the Community
01 October 2008
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the iconic and award-winning Clavinova Digital Piano range, Yamaha have teamed up with Classic FM to create an exciting scheme involving the donation of 25 brand new Clavinovas to worthy causes. The...
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New PSR-S550 Launches in October
24 September 2008
In October Yamaha will launch the brand new PSR-S550 digital keyboard, which replaces the PSR-S500. The S500 won huge praise from keyboard players across the world thanks to its high-quality sound and features, many passed down from the advance...
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Tyros3 Launches October 1st 2008
11 September 2008
The new and much heralded Yamaha Tyros3 keyboard, the latest in the line of the ground breaking flagship keyboard models, is officially launched in the UK from October 1st 2008. It is fair to say this is the most important keyboard launch for many ...
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Take a "Musical" break at lunctime with the London Lunchtime Recital Series
18 August 2008
Following on from the success and critical acclaim of the inaugural conservatoire lunchtime recital season which began in September 2007 and finished in June 2008; Yamaha Artist Services Europe (London) have announced that a second ful...
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Yamaha Music UK hosts European Piano Technician Guild Training
01 August 2008
Following the high profile launch of the acclaimed pan-European Yamaha Piano Technicians Guild programme at The Frankfurt Music Messe earlier this year Yamaha Music UK recently held the first in a series of three high level training se...
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Anything BUT a 'Silent Night'... with Yamaha Club
08 July 2008
Founded in 1995 by top Yamaha keyboard performer Glyn Madden, the Yamaha Club has been serving the Yamaha home keyboard community for over twelve years. For the last ten years, the club has hosted its own annual 'keyboard party'...
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Yamaha Debuts New DGX Portable Grands at the London International Music Show 2008
02 July 2008
As part of Yamaha's continuing goal to make great instruments even more accessible to hobby musicians, a new keyboard concept, the DGX Portable Grand series, was introduced in 2002. These instruments featured many of the musical and...
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Introducing the New PSR-E413 Digital Keyboard
02 July 2008
The new £200 Yamaha Portable Keyboard, the PSR-E413 has been designed to offer great sounds at a truly affordable price.
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Bedford School and Yamaha to host International Piano recitals in July
27 June 2008
Bedford School, in association with Piano Manufacturer Yamaha are to host a series of three, world-class Piano recitals in July as part of its International Piano Academy scheme.
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Music Teachers: Become A Yamaha Education Friend Member!
22 May 2008
Music teachers: become a Yamaha Education Friend member! A central part of Yamaha's long term vision is to broaden and increase access to learning music. One way we can do this is to support professionals working in music education, which we ...
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NAMM Show: Get an Insight on all Latest Releases Presented at the U.S. Music Fair!
27 January 2008
The NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, will offer anything you need to help your business have its best year yet: All the latest musical instruments and-products from around the world, professional training from industry experts and the inspiration a...
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Yamaha Purchases all Shares of Bösendorfer
21 December 2007
Bösendorfer was founded in 1828 and is a manufacturer of premium pianos, especially concert grands. As a symbol of Vienna’s musical culture, Bösendorfer pianos sustain the city’s legacy of unique, warm, and rich sound-creation combined with top-quality production, based on a long tradition of craftsmanship, and has many fans principally among pianists and professional...
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Malaysian Student Wins First Yamaha Piano Scholarship in Manchester
27 February 2007
A 25-year-old Malaysian student has become the first to be awarded a new Yamaha Piano Scholarship at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM).
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Making the Grade
01 February 2007
Last year, Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) was awarded enhanced funding of £4.5m over the next five years to establish a Centre for Excellence in Teaching...
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Facing the Future
26 January 2007
In the last issue of YES magazine, my colleague at the Associated Board, Nigel Scaife, wrote about our new interactive website SoundJunction, which allows visitors to listen to explore, discover and create music through th...
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Staying Focused
23 January 2007
Now in its fifth year, the RNCM Keyboard Focus Day (KFD) - sponsored by Yamaha - goes from strength to strength. Some 175 primary school children participated at this year’s event. The build up to began last December when 13 prim...
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New Yamaha PSR-S500 Arranger Work Station
20 January 2007
Making its debut at Winter NAMM 2007, the new Yamaha PSR-S500 entry-level arranger keyboard includes professional features like large wave ROM for voices, a powerful sound system, full Style control, panel Voice and Style category buttons and Tran...
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Divine Design: Yamaha Unveils Stunning 'MODUS' H01 Digital Piano
19 January 2007
ANAHEIM, Calif. - In an appeal to upscale, design-conscious consumers, Yamaha will introduce MODUS H01 at Winter NAMM 2007, a stunning new digital piano featuring a sophisticated slim style that accents the finest living environments. Inspired...
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Chappell Of Bond Street Conservatoire Lunchtime Recital Series
11 January 2007
Chappell of Bond Street are inviting customers and piano enthusiasts to join them for their inaugural conservatoire lunchtime recital series. The series will feature some of the very best pianists from our London conservatoires.
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New Direction - Changing Tunes
07 January 2007
Changing Tunes - a one-day event held in Birmingham on 11 July and organised jointly by the Music Education Council (MEC) and Music for Youth (MFY) in partnership with the Music Manifesto - attracted more th...
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Yamaha hits the road for ChildLine Rocks!
Staff and supporters from Sherbourne based Yamaha Music will be taking to the road on Sunday 15 August embarking on a 30 mile marathon around the cities redways to raise awareness and cash for ChildLine Rocks, the Rock Music charity which help...
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ChildLine Rocks
Students from Birmingham and Derby Yamaha Music Schools hit a high note with ChildLine founder Esther Rantzen recently. The celebrated TV personality and charity campaigner visited Yamaha Music Head Office in Milton Keynes to congratulate and...
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ChildLine Rocks
Some of the UK's most high profile and respected rock and pop musicians have joined forces for a national music making campaign, based around free introductory music lessons for all through Yamaha's national network of Music Schools. Aimed at ...
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