| I don't think that Yamaha EVER made junk trumpets. (They and Schilke had that unfortunate spell with Yammalloy valves, but that was an honest mistake that they corrected). The Yammies I've played and/or owned from the seventies were excellent, comparable to Schilke. (Schilke himself set up the first production line at Yamaha).
Is there an earlier history of Yamaha that I don't know.
There were indeed some naysayers early on, but that's always the case with something new.
Dave |