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Japan - March 11, 2010

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Yamaha Corp. completed the construction of the new Yamaha hall in February, 2010, which is in a new Yamaha building on one of the main avenues in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan. This classical and yet modern new Yamaha Hall has 12 meters of height, 11 meters of width, 15 meters of seat depth, 6 meters of stage depth, and capacity of 333 seats.
The natural reverberation time is 1.8 seconds. However, the reverberation time can be controlled using a digital signal processing-based AFC (Active Field Control) technology of Acoustic Research Laboratories of Yamaha, which enables the reverberation to be up to 3.0 seconds.
It was possible to experience a change in the reverberation time while auditioning a session of a duo of an acoustic piano and a soprano singer.
The hall is on the 8th floor, and control room and recording studio in the 2nd floor below the ground level are tied with the Ether Sound digital network circuit.

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