I'm clearly biased so take what the shameless corporate shill tells you with a grain of salt, but fret not. Yamaha's been fabulous; if anything, they let us sleep a bit easier knowing our rich uncle can bail us out if one of our... let's say more ambitious and therefore riskier... ventures were to go south.
Fender bought hamer? I remember when hamer started i went to illinois and met the owners and hungout a few days with them and met rick neilson and the other cheaptrick guys who played tge bars in chicago and wisc a loooong time aho before they were famous. I wish i still had that lightning bolt blur sparkle guitar i bought there or the prototype i had. Great company at one time
Wow, you bought something?
Well, even if you would be here more often you’d be equally confused over the threads. The number of confusing threads has astronomically increased.
OP thinks L6 and its users could benefit from Yamaha Corp taking a more active role in L6 product development.
Yeah, bought them in 2007 when they bought Hamer’s parent Kaman. Word on the street was that they were only interested in Kaman’s MI distribution business. In 2013 they killed the crown jewel Hamer USA line, firing everyone, shutting down the New Hartford, CT workshop, and cannibalizing all the top-shelf wood. You started to see special-run Fender FMTs after that. They kept the Indonesian import line running and in 2015 spun it off (with what remained of Kaman) to Jam Industries.
If they could make my Taurus sound and feel like a Ferrari, would the audience be able to tell the difference?Mind you, I just read online that Ford Motor Co. are in negotiations with Cliff to buy Fractal so they can get in early on the whole un-tapped "guitarists who drive to gigs" market
Pretty much what DI was hinting at with his initial responses.
get your Ferrari IR pack!
Or maybe even a Variax Yamaha SG 2000. Although that would probably make the guitar even heavier than it already is. If that's even possible...
The first Yamaha TransAcoustic guitar came out in 2016 and I designed my part of TAG-3C way back in September of 2019 (!!!). Just checked my initial Illustrator file's date.
Cool… just asked as the hyvibe buiyat came out 5 yrs ago. Personally i trust yamaha more in quality and innovation but there is always room for others to expand on this concept i guess. Yamaha support is way better from what I’ve read and heard than HyVibe guitars. In fact I’ve been emailing with HyVibe and they don’t seem to respond or get back to me on questions or things. I ask them about plus they aren’t really available in stores like guitar and Sweetwater so it’s kind of hard to judge him and take a chance on a $1300 acoustic.
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