Yamaha Artist Services
Overview
Located in the Aeolian Building at 689 Fifth Avenue, the third floor piano salon, an acoustically isolated space originally occupied by a showroom of the Aeolian Piano Company, 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 artists and the performing arts world in general, by extension. Its current quarters occupy two entire floors of the Aeolian Building. This complex includes a hall known as the Yamaha Piano Salon and a brass and woodwind atelier, showroom, and custom shop.
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. Opera companies and artist management companies have used the salon for opera training, Its facilities include an atelier, a showroom and a custom shop for instruments of the brass and woodwind family.