With the strength of this album and the help of an international advertising campaign from Yamaha guitars to promote the company's Pacifica models, Michael's first release sold more than 100,000 copies.

The G-245S was a Yamaha classical guitar made in the late 1970s and early 1980s with a subsequent model G-245SII running from 1981-1985 with many if not all of the same features.

They include Gibson, Fender, ESP, and Yamaha guitars.

The SG7 was the first Yamaha electric guitar unleashed in 1966.

The first generation of Power Macintosh computers do not use the Reekes chime, instead using a chord strummed on a Yamaha 12-string acoustic guitar by jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan.

His first guitar was his mother's, a Yamaha classical guitar bought with money from his father's bar tips, which he started to play at age "11 or 12".

I came in one morning and two boys were holding him while a third smashed his Yamaha guitar against the radiator.

As the band's sound changed radically with the release of Snowflake Midnight, Grasshopper switched to a hardtail, double-humbucker Fender Jaguar and Yamaha electric guitar.

Clayton Scoble played air organ, Yamaha guitar and PSS-570 keyboard on 7, and Telecaster Deluxe on 9.

Other offices relating to Yamaha (guitar) and Yamaha Drums are located in Buena Park, California.