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Vandoren has announced the winners of the 2016 Emerging Artist Competition. The Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition (or VEA) is for clarinetists and saxophonists between the ages of 18 and 23…
Avid® and Focusrite have a history of industry-shaping collaborations, from the world’s first plug-ins to feature a fully skeuomorphic GUI (D2 and D3), to the original Focusrite-designed Mbox® interface that…
There are millions of new potential customers for music products, and a brand new association has them squarely in their sights. More than 30 years after establishing an international alliance…
The SABIAN Sound Kit is a complete microphone and mixer kit designed as a simple solution to great drum sounds in a variety of scenarios. Currently drummers have to piece…
On Thursday morning of the 2016 NAMM Show, Alfred Music's Iris and Ron shared thoughts of the recently departed -- and much missed -- Morty Manus. Watch the clip here.
The Yamaha team receives the Legacy Award plaque from MMR editor Christian Wissmuller for the - quite frankly incredible - Dealers' Choice Awards achievements of the company's Disklavier.
MMR's Terry Lowe hands Xiao Wei of Pearl River Piano Group with the Dealers' Choice Award for "Acoustic Piano Line of the Year" on Thursday of this year's NAMM gathering…
The newest member of the family is the Godin Passion RG-4 Swamp Ash Bass. Part of the upscale Passion series, it features 5 tuned, Synchronized Resonance Chambers interconnected inside the…
The Vista Eagle 12-string has a grand auditorium body with koa back and sides, mahogany neck and binding, an ebony fretboard, and a gloss finish. The top combines movingui, paduak,…
BLOWiT Fans are low-profile and can clamp onto drum hardware or microphone stands. One model includes a built-in drum stick holder and is currently on tour with some of the most…
Gon Bops’ latest cajon offering is the DDLR Cajon, crafted from choice poplar wood selected for its warm resonance, and internal wires perfectly positioned to deliver rootsy-sounding snare sounds. The…
The Wearable App, now available at the Apple App store, provides the ultimate in convenience: it offers customers the ability to discover the PNOmation system on any network, delivers playlist…
