is yamaha making sax's in china?

[dzve]

Are yamaha making instruments in china? And what is a yamaha allegro saxophone? I'm seeing yamaha flutes on ebay coming from china and they are really cheap, are these real ayamaha products? Yamaha were making the Q class instruments in indonesia and they are very cheap but they seem to have dissapeared. Anyone know more?
Dirk.

[SaxMoose]

My Yamaha says made in Japan on it. Allegro is just the step-up line of instruments from Yamaha. http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/List/ModelSeriesListHE/0,,CTID%25253D244900%252526CNTYP%25253DPRODUCT,00. html

[zxcvbnm]

I heard that some of the student saxes are being made in china and indonesia.

[al9672]

The ycl-250 I picked up recently says made in Indonesia

[grevsax24]

I was told last year that Yamaha was working towards getting a factory in China to to make their student and intermediate models, but I don't know if that deal was finalized or not.

[zxcvbnm]

Well, I got my info from a yamaha dealer in china about 4 years ago actually.

[dzve]

Thanjs guys, I see the allegro on the website. Ive seen quite a few flutes and clarinets and sax's from indonesia, then I didn't see any. Now I see very cheap flutes coming from a seller in china and I wonder if they are authentic or not. I might bid on one just to find out what it is marked on the back.

[dzve]

Hi again,
Have a look at this flute, it says made in japan but usually it has a model number under that, this doesn't. item no 230240483295.The person has plenty of feedback with a couple of flutes in there,one person was happy but stated it wasn't like the one in the picture. I guess this is a scam of sorts.

[soybean]

My Allegro is made in Japan. Maybe the new ones aren't??

[averageschmoe]

Yamaha is having student horns assembled in China. All of the parts are manufactured in Japan.