"The three forks came from the fact that Mr Imisi Yamaha couldn't afford spoons for his family, Daddy, Mummy and Baby Yamaha and only had three forks with which to eat their rice pudding with.
Mr Yamaha started to make musical instruments which were very good and he managed to save up enough money so he could buy spoons to eat their rice pudding with. Mr Yamaha didn't have a logo at this time and his customers were saying that he should have one so Mr Yamaha decided to use the three forks as his symbol because he didn't want to back to being that poor ever again.
He used the (eating) fork symbol (with three spikes each) for a year when another customer suggested that he should change the design to show three "tuning" forks as it would be more appropriate because he made musical instruments.
It's been estimated that approx 37 violins have the original three pronged fork logo on them instead of the more familiar two pronged tuning fork. If you owned one of those early three pronged violin you would be a multi, multi millionare."
