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Yamaha Artist Services, Inc. (also known as YASI)A visit to Yamaha Artist Services
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is a provider of professional services exclusively for performing music artists, concert venues, performing arts organizations and educational institutions.
on YASI website Located at 689 Fifth Avenue in
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/ref> and features rehearsal, recording and performance spaces for musicians. The YASI was brought into being in April 1987 as "Yamaha Concert & Artist Services",
/ref> in the United States, having originated that same year in Paris, France, as "Centre Européen des Activités Artistiques" (C.E.A.A.).
/ref> For a time, Yamaha managed the program within its new West 57th Street "Yamaha Communications Center", or "YCC" facility, located near
Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall ( ) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street (Manhattan), 56th and 57th Street (Manhatta ...
.Music Trades, 1991
/ref> YCC closed in 1992.Music Trades 1992
/ref> In May 2004, the current facility was opened.Music Trades 2004
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Overview

Located in the Aeolian Building at 689 Fifth Avenue,City Review Article on Aeolian Building
/ref> the third floor ''piano salon'', an acoustically isolated space originally occupied by a showroom of the Aeolian Piano Company,
/ref> which made its reputation in organs, reproducing organs, pianos and most particularly piano roll mechanisms and rolls themselves from 1887 until 1985. Encompassing the entire third floor, the piano saloon features a performance venue seating up to 150 and houses a selection of concert grand pianos and " disklavier" performance reproducing pianos. The program maintains relationships with classical piano performing artistsBeth Levin NY Times Review – 6/2005
/ref> and the performing arts world in general, by extension. Its current quarters occupy two entire floors of the Aeolian Building.
/ref> This complex includes a hall known as the Yamaha Piano SalonCann Twins Recital Listing 3/2009
/ref> and a brass and woodwind atelier, showroom, and custom shop.YASI Opening – 2004
/ref> The YASI promotes the professional use of Yamaha pianos by artists, producers, and recording engineers. It also manages a large pool of pianos, placed at dealers and at various venues around the United States.LvTSg Press Release
/ref> Opera companies and artist management companies have used the salon for opera training,Costa Jackson Website
/ref> Its facilities include an atelier,"Day of Trumpets" Notification
/ref> a showroom and a custom shop for instruments of the brass and woodwind family.


See also

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Yamaha Artist A Yamaha Artist is a designation bestowed by Yamaha, by invitation, to musical artists, considered to be critically acclaimed in their instruments or genres. Acceptance as a Yamaha Artist is tantamount to a reciprocal endorsement by Yamaha. Like ot ...
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Yamaha Entertainment Group Yamaha Entertainment Group of America, is a division of the American subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation. It is based in Franklin, Tennessee and was created and developed in 2001 by Vice President Chris Gero. YEG is responsible for the development ...


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