Word: yamahas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem Wurlitzer will face no matter what the economy does is growing competition from low-cost, high-quality foreign imports. Japanese-made pianos and organs from such manufacturers as Yamaha and Kawai have already captured 25% of the U.S. market, and industry experts expect the share to keep growing...
...upwards of $14,000, the home entertainer can furnish his room with, say, a big-screen Kloss Novabeam projection TV, a Sony Betamax video recorder, a Panasonic video-tape color camera, an RCA videodisc player, a Yamaha audionics stereo with electrostatic-charged speakers, a film library, video tapes and discs, stereo records and Atari electronic games. He may add specially crafted lounge chairs at $1,000 each and banquettes ($2,000). For the addicted media roominator there is also a computer to keep the collection organized. Some dealers complain that advances in equipment are so rapid there...
Materialize, indeed. Tom Waits is back in Los Angeles, fixed up in an office on the old Hollywood General lot -- now known as Omni Zoetrope Studio and owned by Coppola. The walls in Waits' suite are made of old mahogany. A Yamaha grand piano fills half of one of the rooms. An elaborate tape deck shares a coffee table with magazines, cassettes and scripts. "There's a David Niven feel to the room which I rather enjoy," he says, his eyes scanning the rich wainscoting...
...many products. We know that compared to a few years ago, we now buy Japanese hi-fi equipment instead of American, Japanese cameras instead of German, Japanese television sets instead of American, Japanese watches instead of Swiss. The four largest motorcycle manufacturers in the United States are Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Suzuki. Twenty years ago the Japanese produced less than 100,000 automobiles, last year 100 times as many--10,000,000--about the same as the U.S. produced. Since it does not involve consumer goods, fewer Americans know that Japan produces about as much steel as the United States...