YAMAHA Music siren Final operation 1

[@FM60260]

It's a shame this one has gone, I think it sounds far better than a lot of the others I have seen videos of.

[@andrewclarke3622]

This is a shame. I just heard of this yesturday. Where these throught Japan? I understand this is an old video.

[@FM60260]

@@andrewclarke3622 There were a few dotted around, not that many though. There are still a small number left of both the first gen and second gen sirens.

[@andrewclarke3622]

Thank you. The melody must be something to hear.

[@FM60260]

@@andrewclarke3622 I wouldn't mind going to listen to some of them one day.

[@jaxThesirenandcountrylover]

Second gen locations: Yawatahama (sorry if I misspelled it): active kishiwada city hall: inactive Tenor pool(x2): inactive Uwajima castle:inactive

[@尚人岡本]

高校生まで日本楽器のそばに住んでいました。 小さい頃に聴いた楽曲とは違いますね。 たしか10、12、15、17時に鳴っでいました。 夕方のサイレン（と呼んでいた）は郷愁を誘う音楽でした。

[@motorcyclesarecool]

I would cry if I heard this for the last time if I woke up to it for a final time

[@ithken]

me to

[@sirenhead666wo]

i would go to the music siren

[@jaxThesirenandcountrylover]

Totally 😭

[@muses619]

最終日は、仕事で聞くことが出来ず、涙を飲んでいましたが、ここで聞くことが出来て本当に嬉しかったです。有難うございました。

[@bts-1945]

The only way you can see this siren just standing… is to time travel through google maps.

[@yuudokuyasai]

なんで無くす必要があるんだ。風情まで世の中から無くすのか。

[@kousei5655]

ヤマハミュージアムに保管されるべきだと思う……

[@theray2009]

It might be already

[@MasenMonster]

@@theray2009 It’s not. It’s actually in a storage facility. Unfortunately it’s going to be torn apart for spare parts and left to rot.

[@theray2009]

@@MasenMonster how do you know

[@MasenMonster]

@@theray2009 Statement said my YAMAHA themselves

[@theray2009]

@@MasenMonster k

[@sirenhead666wo]

1:21 thats beautiful

[@witheredjolly]

Nickname: home sweet home synth gen 3 Realname: last operation 1

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

Oh, sad. I just discovered this weird instrument on another video. Why was it permanently discontinued?

[@JonasClark]

Yamaha ceased to make parts for it. This is their 2nd-generation model from the 80s-90s, but there is one of these still playing in Japan. The earlier versions were produced starting in the 1950s, and at least two of those are still operating. The two that were atop the Yamaha plant (both had more notes than the standard models) are, or so I'm told, in storage.

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

@@JonasClark: 1. Why would they stop making parts for it if people are still wanting to hear it play? 2. Even with stopping the making of parts for it, why should that mean that they set an artificially specific date for it to stop playing, rather than just letting it play until It breaks too far to repair?

[@JonasClark]

@@HelloKittyFanMan. As for why they ceased making parts, I imagine there just wasn't enough money in it. Many cities had already simply decommissioned the old ones when they quit working instead of getting parts. But in the case of this particular siren, the building it was atop was about to be demolished, and I suspect they wanted to have it come down in at least okayish (potentially-restorable, maybe for a factory display) condition. But all of this is guesswork. Honestly, not a great deal is known about these devices by the public.

[@FEDERALSIGNALTECH]

What are the names of the songs? It does sound like an organ.😊

[@sirenhead666wo]

auld Lang syne home road tonbi home sweet home

[@FEDERALSIGNALTECH]

@@sirenhead666wo the last song is the melody of YAMAHA.

[@jaxThesirenandcountrylover]

Home sweet home, Wild Rose and Linden Tree

[@ayberkatescelik1309]

better then 2023 brish drills

[@BlueTheVelociraptorBTV]

What is it playing

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

Home, Sweet Home; by Henry Rowley Bishop is the first song. I don't know about the others.

[@theray2009]

​@@HelloKittyFanMan.Second is wild rose, third is der lindenbaum

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

@@theray2009: Oh, nice, thanks.

[@Sipex6484]

woah.

[@iljaostaatestaavlogaapelaajaha]

This sounds like funeral organ music!

[@AmericanSirenProductions]

How many are left?

[@1000BT]

none sadly

[@AmericanSirenProductions]

@@1000BT source?

[@NeilPrasad_1905]

@@AmericanSirenProductions the user himself recorded this video. Unfortunately since end of 2018, all are gone and got replaced with electronic ones. But there is a chance that one of them will be preserved.

[@NeilPrasad_1905]

@@Nthuziast no idea. But I know the one in Hamamatsu got ripped out.

[@AmericanSirenProductions]

@@Nthuziast are left in Japan