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The opportunity for this guest editorial presents itself in the receding shadow of the 60th anniversary of the Stratocaster, which Fender celebrated throughout 2014. And while anniversaries are of course…
In anticipation of the coming fall semester MMR recently reached out to over 500 MI dealers across the country to discuss instrument rental programs. While our focus was on school…
“There was a lot of value for both exhibitors and retailers alike in Nashville – the NAMM Member companies came ready to do business,” notes NAMM president and CEO Joe…
Harmonica players within pop and rock music are often a somewhat anonymous bunch, so far as “name recognition” by the general public goes. Unfair, no doubt, but – generally speaking…
Income inequality has emerged as the main debate in the wake of the Great Recession. In the United States, income inequality – the gap between the very wealthy and everyone…
A couple weeks ago, one of the bands I play in opened for The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – a real treat for me and my buddies, having grown up listening…
Hal Leonard Corporation and Willis Music have spent a decade making beautiful music together. To commemorate the milestone, Hal Leonard President Larry Morton and VP of National Sales David Jahnke…
On August 1, NAMM’s Dan Del Fiorentino got in touch with the following news:Ralph Zumpano passed away on July 22 at the age of 92. He worked in the Kenosha, Wisconsin,…
SABIAN has appointed St. Louis Music (SLM) as a partner in distribution in the United States, effective September 1st, 2015. "We started selling our products direct to retailers in the…
Hal Leonard Corporation is partnering with PraiseCharts, a leading online resource for contemporary praise & worship sheet music for churches, to make PraiseCharts content available to music dealers worldwide in…
Every store needs new customers, right? But, let's face it, you would much rather be selling a proper bass rig to your mate from Sonic Vomit than a violin to…
With sales low and overheads creeping up, it can be tricky to find money to invest in the business, so when was the last time you had a refurb of…
