YAMAHA
Yamaha’s superb craftsmanship dwells in the beautiful organic forms and elaborately created details of the instruments their highly skilled craftspeople create. Artisans creating musical instruments from a single piece of metal—filing, assembling, and polishing over 70 parts... their abilities are simply astonishing. From handmade to student models, each Yamaha flute is designed and crafted one by one without compromise. While it is the artisan who gives them form, it is in the artist’s hands where they come to life, blooming with wondrous melodies and growing as they mature.
Student & Intermediate Flutes
More than Just Inexpensive Versions of Yamaha’s Professional Flutes
A lip plate designed to guide beginners toward proper breath utilisation, keys with carefully considered dimensions and angles for optimum balance and easy playability. These and other details are some of the reasons why Yamaha student and intermediate flutes have become bestsellers worldwide. An inimitable blend of leading technology and craftsmanship goes into each and every instrument. New refinements include pointed key arms contributing to elegant visual appeal, and a completely revised key parts manufacturing process that significantly enhances overall precision.
The 400, 300, and 200 series models offer various combinations of sterling silver and nickel silver. An extensive lineup makes it easy to choose an ideal first instrument for every player.
Semi-Professional Flutes
These Models Share the Same Design Features as Yamaha’s Handmade Models
Inheriting the many merits of top-of-the-line Yamaha handmade flutes, these models offer rich, nuanced tonality over a wide dynamic range.
The 500 and 600 models combine the brightness of nickel silver with the characteristic mellow timbres of sterling silver, while the 700 models delivers warmth and expressive colour that only the finest silver flutes can provide.
All models come with Type Am headjoints based on the Type A headjoints supplied with handmade flutes 900 and 800 models. The keys feature traditional pointed key arms, reflecting the highest level of craftsmanship and adding visual elegance to these outstanding instruments.
Handmade Flutes
Unsurpassed Innovation, Crafted by Hand
Inspired to start afresh, Yamaha went back to a clean slate applying all of the knowledge, advancements, and skills they had obtained over the last two decades crafting some of the finest handmade flutes available today, into the design of an entirely new line of handmade instruments.
Focusing on innovation, Yamaha has created some instruments that change the image of the handmade flute significantly. They offer tone with charm and depth, and a wide dynamic range that spans from rich, sensitive pianissimo to highly resonant fortissimo, allowing the flutist to discover new limits of musical expression. From the finest details to their overall design, every part, process, and component on these handmade flutes are designed to function in harmony with the rest.
Handmade Wooden Flutes
For the Warm ‘Natural’ Sound of Fine Grenadilla Wood
They also deliver all the carrying power of a silver flute! Which means that Yamaha Handmade wooden flutes are suitable not just for solo and chamber music, but also for use in the modern symphony orchestra. Their remarkable tonal projection is the result of combining the state-of-the art Type 4 scale with Yamaha’s unique “Type EW” headjoint, and of their specially designed toneholes–which are the same size as on metal flutes. An “Type HW” headjoint is optionally available.
Piccolos
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YPC-32
With its easy playability, accurate intonation, and characteristic piccolo sound, the YPC-32 is very popular with students as well as doublers. The body is made of sturdy, maintenance-free ABS resin for a sound similar to that of natural wood.
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YPC-62R
A long-time favourite of professional musicians, the YPC-62R can be found in many top orchestras worldwide. Characterised by excellent intonation and playability, it features a headjoint and body of carefully seasoned grenadilla for a warm full tone.
The “Wave” cut headjoint (YPC-62R) offers a very gratifying response and a wider dynamic range.
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YPC-81R
These piccolos are handcrafted by accomplished artisans and have headjoint and bodies of top grade grenadilla with a silver-plated mechanism.
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YPC-91
The YPC-91, which is hand-made by Yamaha’s most gifted artisans, have been developed in cooperation with some of the world’s leading musicians. It features a headjoint and body of select, carefully seasoned grenadilla wood.
