In His Own Words

What did my dad do? Listen to the man himself talk about the history of Yamaha in America, and how he came to join it:

https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/tetsuya-takagi

It was two days after he had passed away when we found this footage online for the first time. Imagine our surprise! Recorded in 2010, he still looked healthy and robust. None of us knew he had done this!

The folks at NAMM are including him in their "in memoriam" tribute footage at their main stage show scheduled on January 25 at the 2018 NAMM show at Anaheim Convention Center.

After the NAMM show is done, I have been promised a full version of the interview, perhaps sometime in February. Hopefully, I will be able to share that with you somehow.

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If you can read Japanese, you may be interested in my dad's books:

https://www.amazon.com/Tetsuya-Takagi/e/B001I7KLNK

There is also this:

http://a.co/2jj59Tt

This was not written by my father, and the subject is about his boss at Yamaha, but he was extensively interviewed, and the book does offer a clear picture of what they did.