NAMM Foundation Grants President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities Support for Turnaround Arts Program

Continuing its commitment to advancing participation in music making, The NAMM Foundation is supporting a research project in collaboration with the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and its Turnaround Arts program. Turnaround Arts expands music and arts education in low-performing schools with the goal to close the achievement gap and increase student engagement using high quality, integrated arts education.  

Trade Regrets: Leland Smith

Leland Smith, known to many as “The Father of Computer Music Notation,” passed away on December 17 at the age of 88.

Smith is recognized as the founder of computerized musical notation, based largely on his work at Stanford University. He came to symbolize the technological changes in print music beginning in the 1960s. Smith’s work as a professor and educator resulted in a method for computers to read and process musical notes. The field of computer science has grown to embrace and enhance musical creation through Leland Smith’s pioneering work.

TRUSST from Chauvet Forms The Backbone of Award-Winning LDI Booth

Chauvet®  DJ won the Best Small Booth Design Award at this year’s LDI Show, reflecting  not only the booth’s appearance, but the fact that it effectively showcased more than 85 lighting fixtures, representing new technologies, in a space totaling only 400 square feet.  While much attention was paid to its creative design and spectacular light show, the award-winning booth also owes its LDI accolade to an “underlying hero” – a sturdy and ingenious trussing system designed by Chauvet DJ senior product manager Allan Reiss, built with products from TRUSST®, a sub-brand of Chauvet.

Midwest Clinic Reports Successful 2013 Show

"Our expectations for the conference was exceeded in all manners,” declared Denny Senseney, treasurer of the Midwest Clinic. “The exhibit hall was nearly sold-out with approximately 50 new exhibiting companies. But most of all the concerts and clinics met our primary objective of serving the music education profession.” More than 80 professional development clinics were mixed with multiple concerts. “As a result, music educators benefited, and as we hope, so will their students, schools, communities, and our culture.”

Line 6 to be Acquired by Yamaha Corporation

Yamaha Corporation and Line 6, Inc. have announced a definitive agreement for Yamaha to acquire Line 6. The acquisition expands Yamaha’s portfolio of modeling guitar processing products as well as pro-audio equipment, and offers new and opportunities for accelerated growth for both companies.

Grabel-Komar Joins Full Compass as VP of Product Planning & Procurement

D’Addario Retains Inside Track Int’l

To boost their already strong OEM and private label business, D’Addario & Company, Inc. is excited to announce they’ve retained Inside Track International to facilitate sales of their fretted instrument products. Inside Track is the OEM sales rep firm started in 2012 by longtime Seymour Duncan sales and marketing executive, Evan Skopp, together with Doreen Daley Skopp.

Inside Track will manage D’Addario’s global sales of both fretted instrument strings—bulk packaged and private label—and D’Addario|Planet Waves.

Hal Leonard and Tycoon Expand Distribution Deal

Starting at the 2014 NAMM show, Hal Leonard will be the exclusive US distributor for the entire Tycoon line – hundreds of products from this highly regarded manufacturer of hand percussion.

Harman Professional Appoints Bogetvedt As Sales Manager

Harman Professional has appointed Joachim Bogetvedt as sales manager, Nordic, Martin Professional. Based in Kristiansand, Norway, Bogetvedt will lead sales and initiatives for Martin Professional across Northern Europe, reporting directly to Steen Matthiesen, vice president EMEA Sales, Martin Professional.

Henry Heller Braided Guitar and Mandolin Straps

Henry Heller introduces a flat braid mandolin and guitar strap that combines functionality and beauty with unsurpassed American leather workmanship and quality. Think a Johnny Cash style Americana vibe meets the liking of a traditional folk or bluegrass player! Medium brown soft Capri leather in a four strand braid. This strap has a patent pending micro-adjustment that cinches into place which makes it a highly functional yet beautiful minimalist braided strap.  Available in two separate mandolin designs as well as one for guitar.

Anthem Musical Instruments APC-1SP and APC-2C Piccolos

The Anthem APC-1SP is a budget conscious piccolo, made for the beginning student. It features a silver plated body, headjoint, and footjoint, ribbed construction, a conical bore, and a french style case. It has a strong, penetrating sound, and durable construction for the younger student. The Anthem APC-2C features a composite body and contoured headjoint, and provides a rich, mellow sound with a wide dynamic range. It has a conical bore, and silver plated, contoured keys for improved finger position. It comes with a french style case with a case cover.

Légère Reeds Signature Bb Bass Clarinet Reed

On the heels of Legere’s Bb Clarinet, Tenor, Alto and Soprano Signature reeds comes the Bb Bass Clarinet Signature. The Bb Bass Clarinet Signature is a very responsive synthetic reed that performs in all registers with depth and color. Available and in stock now.

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