Korg Launches Dance Training App: Step Master
Korg is releasing Step Master, a dance training iPhone app aimed at improving the users’ sense of rhythm in a game like manner. Dancers from beginner to expert level will…
GC Opens New Store in Illinois
Guitar Center opened its 264th location in Champaign, Illinois, on February 26. Guitar Center’s latest store, a state-of-the-art musical instrument and technology center covering over 8,000 square feet, is the…
PRS Announces Opening of ‘West Street East’ and Start of Factory Tours
PRS Guitars has announced the opening of its new “West Street East” Museum Room and retail store and the commencement of free public tours of the Stevensville, Maryland manufacturing facility.When…
Casio Celebrates 'Music in Our Schools Month'
Music offers inspiration, creativity, and expression for students of every level. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of ‘Music in Our Schools Month,’ which was designated by The National Association…
CHAUVET DJ Works Magic with Penn Jillette
As the taller half of the superstar Las Vegas magic team of Penn & Teller, Penn Jillette is a master of illusion, but there was nothing chimerical about the magical…
Blackburn College Revamps Auditorium with Danley
Located in the rural Illinois town of Carlinville, Blackburn College serves six hundred undergraduates. Its unique work program keeps costs low and campus community involvement high by employing students in…
JHS Honored with Milestone Award
NAMM has honored John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd. in Leeds with the Milestone Award for 50 years of service in the music products industry. The award recognizes retailers and…
Join NAMM’s Music Education Advocacy Efforts on Capitol Hill
NAMM members will take the nation’s capital by storm, May 18-21, 2015, making the case that all children deserve comprehensive school music education programs. Leaders of the music product industry,…
World-record Attempt at Musikmesse 2015: 1,000 Drummers Wanted
Musikmesse in Frankfurt will be the venue for a unique spectacle on April 18, 2015: the organisers plan to bring together 1,000 drummers and break the record for the world’s…
Trade Regrets: Richard O’Donnell
Richard O’Donnell passed away on January 15, 2015.O’Donnell was vice president of Yamaha Corporation of America at a very historic time in the company’s growth and development during the 1970s.…
Trade Regrets: Fritz Kollitz
On February 12th, NAMM’s Dan Del Fiorentino sent the following regarding the passing of Fritz Kollitz, founder of Fritz Kollitz Fine Tone Woods:Without a doubt, one of my favorite components…
Trade Regrets: DW Caffey
We recently received the following message from NAMM’s Dan Del Fiorentino:At the time of DW Caffey's NAMM Oral History interview in 2012, he had been tuning pianos for just over…