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Re: Prejudices

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2009-07-16 17:19

Tinselworm wrote:

> I suppose equipment-wise I'm quite prejudiced against Yamahas.
> I know they're solid instruments and some people rate them very
> highly, but I just can't get it out of my head that they're a
> motorcycle manufacturer, y'know?

Actually you got it backwards - they're a musical instrument company (starting with reed organs 122 years ago) that happened to start making motorcycles 55 years ago because they had diversified into alloys (after also diversifying into furniture - everything was related to making keyboard instruments) - thus the 3 crossed tuning forks as a logo.

See http://www.global.yamaha.com/about/corporate/history/

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