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Guitar Center has announced its partnership with the 2020 Winter Music Conference (WMC) and Miami Music Week (MMW), as the official music instrument retailer of the world-renowned electronic music conference…
[caption id="attachment_69841" align="alignleft" width="460"] Photo courtesy of NAMM[/caption] On January 14, The NAMM Foundation and NAMM member companies presented the Horace Mann Elementary School in Anaheim, California with a monetary…
A quarter century ago, two former high school and LSU School of Engineering classmates were inspired to found a new company called PreSonus®, where they would design innovative audio products…
Introducing Austrian Audio, the classic microphone manufacturer bringing 350 years of cumulative engineering experience to the industry. Austrian Audio opened its doors on July 1st 2017 immediately after the closure…
The historic British Amplifier brand, Hiwatt, and official trademarks for Hiwatt across the world - have been reunited. Managing Director, Darren Atkinson says; “It was a tough go of it…
In many ways he’s the face of the MI industry – and, ever-smiling, Joe Lamond’s is a face nearly all of us see at each NAMM Show and many other…
Two of the most common and popular types of clarinets are the EH and BH clarinet. This is largely due to the fact that both are transposing instruments, meaning that,…
Formed in 2000 by Crystal Morris and her father Jerry, Gator Cases quickly emerged as designers and producers of some of the most sought-after cases and bags for instruments, percussion,…
With only 7.1 percent of participants in this month’s dealer survey – sent out to over 250 MI retailers – reporting that sales of clarinet ligatures are down and nearly…
Five years ago, we at MMR made a rather bold statement: We proclaimed that Brian Ball, son of Sterling Ball, had stepped into the “role he was born for” as…
When it comes to selling stuff locally, the retailer is worth keeping around, so can we please stop pretending that net 30 terms work? Traditionally, retailers pay cash for big…
In 1978 Donald Watkins purchased High School Music Service from Lloyd Reitz, who founded the company in 1946. When Watkins retired in 1997, Greg, Donald’s son, already had a decade’s…
