As the first guitars made by the company, Yamaha takes it's classical guitar very seriously. Along with the best-selling student 'C' range and the professional concert 'GC' series, the CG line is renowned for offering all of Yamaha's trademarks ...

Long the bass of choice for some of the world's best know players including Nathan East, Michael Anthony, Marco Mendoza, Glenn Hughes, Geezer Butler and Duff McKagan, the Yamaha BB is known for incredible sound, great playability and classic, vin...

Me and My Yamaha continues with Music Production Specialist - Chris Irvine

When Sophia Johnson called by The Artist Suite to record a demo for the March edition of the Yamaha Download, we managed to grab 5 minutes with her to get just a little more info...

Download leaves the office and checks out some other locals with their guitars!

Right - first up, let me lay this one completely down on the line. I have never gigged a nylon string guitar before last week, I know next to no classical licks - let alone Spanish flamenco style, and I'm probably better known playing ...

I was pretty much surrounded by music from an early age really. Both of my elder sisters play instruments and my parents were always very encouraging. Like most young boys, I fell in love with the idea of being the rock star and so guitar i...

Growing up the house was full of music: Hendrix, Deep Purple, Bob Marley, James Brown, The Beatles and The Stones seemed to be on most of the time as well as the hits of the day (late 70's and early 80's). Both my parents are music fans. ...

Like most little girls who express an interest in music (or in my case, enjoying making a loud noise on anything I could get my hands on) I was encouraged to learn piano. After a few years of long, tedious routine learning to read music; ...

“The class-leading Pacifica 112V combines player-focused, stage-ready spec with no-compromise construction and set-up to create the best value player’s guitar on the market…”

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I started playing classical guitar at 8 years old through lessons put on by my middle school. At the time I wasn’t really into any guitar-driven music, but it was the coolest instrument to learn! I got into heavy metal during sec...

Working in Guitar Marketing is an interesting place to be when you're a guitarist because you think about the relationships between different aspects of the guitar in a totally new way - this wood sounds great with that wood, that pi...

International Rock stars aren't the only ones who play guitar - Roundup looks a bit closer to home and speaks to players who use their Yamaha's night after night.

Pulling out all the stops for this years winter NAMM show, Yamaha Guitars are releasing 6 new electro-acoustics bringing variety and un-paralleled performance across the whole range. Roundup finds out more…

A guitar is a great Christmas present - to help you choose the right one, Roundup has put together a quick guide to a few things you should ask.

Before Yamaha started manufacturing motorbikes, before they began hand crafting drum kits and long before their keyboards helped shape the sounds of an entire decade - Yamaha crafted classical guitars.

Yamaha's Pacifica range is best known for the 112 - launched in 1993 it turned the market for affordable guitars on its head and proved that a £200 guitar could be built with just the same focus on being a great player's guitar as one...

When Yamaha were approached by breast cancer charity The Pink Ribbon Foundation about supporting one of their fundraising auctions with a guitar to auction off, there was only one thing for it. We needed to find some pink paint, sharpish...

Introducing Yamaha design concepts, philosophy and messages from our in house designers.

Lee Hodgson, long time Yamaha player and tutor at The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance recently completed the filming of “Play James Taylor” for Lick Library. This was his most recent in a long line of tuition DVD’s and...

When the world's biggest musical instrument manufacturer teams up with the hottest rock bass player on the planet, you know something pretty special's going to come out of it. Yamaha's latest bass, the new BB714BS Billy Sheehan signature mo...

Probably best known as a member of the Rolling Stones, Ronnie Wood is well known for playing sold out venues around the world but maybe not so well known as an artist. But in fact Ronnie Wood has been drawing and creating art from a very ea...

If you want to be one of the first people in the UK to see the latest Yamaha products then read on. Yamaha and the organisers of the London International Music Show (LIMS) are offering two pairs of tickets that will get you into this ama...

A pickup/preamplifier system newly developed for electric acoustic guitars.

A.R.E. (Acoustic Resonance Enhancement) is an original wood reforming technology developed by Yamaha. Instruments made with woods processed with this technology produce a tonal richness that is like an old instrument that has been played for years...

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...

2 million people trying to buy 18,000 tickets. Tickets selling on eBay for £1000. One fan paying £83,000 for a seat. There's no question, December's Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert - probably better known as the Led Zeppelin reunion gig...

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...