Yamaha Guitar Development is a custom shop in Calabasas, California, where luthiers build acoustic, electric, and bass guitars for Yamaha artists. The shop is also a research & development facility, contributing to production guitars that are available to customers around the world. In this interview, Senior Acoustic Guitar Builder Andrew Enns talks about his approach to the craft and his collaboration process with the engineers in Japan.

In celebration of this year's Record Store Day, Tim Baker, Yamaha Guitar Group Product Marketing Manager for Yamaha Acoustic Guitars, tells the story of how he got nominated for a Grammy.

Record Store Day is when independent record shops around the world come together to celebrate their unique culture. Due to COVID-19 this year's RSD is split across 3 dates: 29th August, 26th September and 24th October. Around these dates we have been joining in the celebrations with stories from Yamaha artists about their favourite records and local stores

Record Store Day is when independent record shops around the world come together to celebrate their unique culture. Due to COVID-19 this year's RSD will be split across 3 dates: 29th August, 26th September and 24th October. Around these dates we will be joining in the celebrations with stories from Yamaha artists about their favourite records and local stores.

Yamaha artist Matteo Mancuso’s musicianship and unique fingerpicking technique impress all who witness his playing. Often described as a virtuoso, the jazz/fusion guitarist from Sicily has amassed millions of YouTube views. Recently, Mancuso collaborated with our Los Angeles custom shop to design a Revstar personalized to his preferences in taste and tone.

Artist, pianist, and guitarist and songwriter for instrumental math-rock band Covet, Yvette Young shares how teaching herself to play guitar empowered her, explains how she developed her playing technique, and tells us why she brings her THR30II Wireless with her on tour.

We recently spoke to The Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder about the band’s most recent tour, his new project Night Dreamer, and his experience with the new THR30II Wireless amplifier.

ACTORS’ frontman and guitarist Jason Corbett has recently joined the Yamaha Guitars family, playing Revstar RS620 and RS502T guitars. Jason took some time out from the band’s European tour to chat with us about his influences, the story of his first guitar, and what he looks for in a guitar now.

Today as we launch the new FG and FS Red Label guitars, here's a look back at the history of the Yamaha Folk Guitar.

Happy International Women’s Day! The theme this year is #BalanceforBetter, so to celebrate we’d like to encourage and enable more women to start playing guitar or bass with our #WithHerGuitar campaign. Find out how to take part to win a Revstar RS320, APX600 or BB234...

For NAMM 2019, our Senior Guitar Designer and Luthier Pat Campolattano worked his magic on a range of unique, one-off design concept guitars, based on Revstar and Pacifica models. Find out the details...

Custom shop chat with guitarist, producer, songwriter, synthesist and one quarter of hardcore punk revivalists AFI (A Fire Inside) Jade Puget, and Yamaha Guitar Designer and Luthier Pat Campolattano. Find out the story on Jade's new custom Revstar...

A new addition to the Yamaha Guitars family, 24 year old singer songwriter Freya Ridings took some time to talk with us about her journey, what she looks for in a guitar, and how it feels to have a crowd sing her words back to her.

"You’ll be seeing this guitar on stage every night. And really - that’s the ultimate testament." Custom shop chat with Rival Sons' Scott Holiday and Yamaha Guitars designer and luthier Pat Campolattano about Scott's new hollowbody Revstar he's nicknamed the "Big Daddy" Revstar...

We celebrated this year's Record Store Day by finding out which records were influential to a number of Yamaha artists and why.

You may have heard about some uniquely beautiful custom Yamaha Revstar models doing the rounds at this year's NAMM Show. These creations were imagined and realised by our very own guitar luthier Pat Campolattano out of our Calabasas facility. After witnessing such a great reception to these models we sat down with Pat to get some details on these to share with the Guitar World.

Iconic Tattoo Artist Tokyo Hiro on his Japanese heritage, perfecting his craft & his first (and maybe last!) experience "tattooing" a guitar...

"All of it was done in a very creative space without having any outside opinions to contend with. It was just four guys making music. That’s a real luxury to have." We talk with long time Yamaha BB artist Tony Kanal about his new band DREAMCAR & his stunning new custom bass to match their debut album.

"It doesn’t sound like any other, it’s almost got an uprighty sound. The necks are so awesome and super easy to play. They got the long scale and they just sound amazing and they fit exactly where you want them to fit in the mix too.” Eagles of Death Metal, Masters of reality, Mojave lords, earthlings? & Gnarltones guitarist and iconic Rancho De La Luna studio host Dave Catching talks his magic Yamaha Bass, life at his studio and his wisdom on recording.

Following a recent Revstar shoot with The Killers' Dave Keuning, we hit Lou's Records for a little shopping spree...

Before The Winery Dogs' touring cycle in support of their second album "Hot Streak," Billy asked us to build him an Attitude LTD3 that looked like a deep dark red glass of wine and for it to be infused with LED lights. And it needed to talk...ok, that's not true, but this wasn't going to be an easy task.

A few weeks ago our friend Tony Kanal reached out to see if we could get some of his Yamaha BB’s studio-ready to start recording with his new project, which features fellow No Doubt members Tom Dumont and Adrian Young as well as A.F.I. singer Davey Havok.

The good news for Robby Takac's bass tech is that no time is wasted cleaning instruments...