Grover Perfect Guitar Nut and Ukulele Humidifier
Grover Musical Products has reintroduced the “Perfect Guitar Nut” for slide steel playing. Sold successfully for over 50 years under the “Micro™” brand, the new Grover model is produced using…
AIM Holiday Gifts
Stuff those holiday stockings and your store’s cash register selling AIM Gifts music design candy mint tins. Each display holds 24 mint tins with each tin holding 50 mints. Pictured…
Korg Sledgehammer Pro
With advanced new design, operation, and functionality the Sledgehammer Pro provides ultra-precise tuning with an accuracy of ±0.1 cents, making it one of the most reliable clip-on tuners ever produced.…
Zildjian Appoints Czerkawski as CFO
The Avedis Zildjian Company has named Charles “Chuck” Czerkawski to the position of chief financial officer, with responsibility over finance and accounting, human resources, and information technology. Czerkawski reports directly…
Rosetti confirms BC Rich distribution
After BC Rich announced a new licensing deal with Praxis, UK distributor Rosetti has moved to confirm that it will continue to work with the brand in the UK. Following…
US SECTOR FOCUS: Drums and Percussion
Based on this month’s survey – sent out to over 450 MI retailers, globally – electronic drums & percussion represent a fairly static market segment in 2015. While more participants…
St Louis buys Hamilton Stands
Saint Louis Music (SLM) has completed the acquisition of Hamilton Stands. Hamilton is the oldest stand company in the world and one of the oldest MI brands in the US., having…
Orange Musicboard2 hits US market
Orange Music Education (OME) launched its Musicboard2 at the annual Conference of NAfME, the National Association for Music Educators, in Nashville Tennessee recently. The Orange Musicboard2 is the only interactive whiteboard that…
New Seagull mandolin launches
Canadian guitar brand Seagull, has launched a new domestically manufactured mandolin, available in the UK through 440 Distribution. Sporting a maple neck-through body, the S8 features a solid Sitka spruce top with…
The Beat Goes On: Major Players in Electronic Drums & Percussion Discuss Trends in the Market Segment
Interest in electronic percussion had sort of “ebbed and flowed” from the ‘70s through the early 2000s, but in recent years it seems like those types of instruments have solidly…
Electronic Drums & Percussion: Electronic Drums Continue to Appeal to a Niche Market, While Hybrid Kits are Here to Stay
Based on this month’s survey – sent out to over 450 MI retailers, globally – electronic drums & percussion represent a fairly static market segment in 2015. While more participants…
Music China 2015: International MI Community Gathers in ‘The Pearl of the Orient’
The news out of China this past summer was mostly centered around the nation’s stock market crash – a main source of global economic volatility for many month – but…