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Dubreq Ltd. has announced Stylophone’s Big 5-0 Golden Ticket Competition in celebration of The Stylophone’s 50 birthday. The global competition to compose Stylophone’s 50th Anniversary song will be judged by Tony…
Dubreq Ltd. has announced Stylophone’s Big 5-0 Golden Ticket Competition in celebration of The Stylophone’s 50 birthday. The global competition to compose Stylophone’s 50th Anniversary song will be judged by Tony…
Audio-Technica has expanded its existing trade-in program for 600 MHz wireless systems to now include the new 3000 Series (4th Generation) and 5000 Series (3rd Generation), as the industry moves away from…
In 2018, headphones designed for professional studio use still have the same fundamental purpose and goal as always: true replication of source audio material and durability. However, new and evolving…
Not all music retail stores can last forever, but they can pass the torch to the next shop suited to carry on the MI duties in their community. That’s exactly…
To all the folks at Guitar Center locations around the country, the Music Emporium in Lexington, Massachusetts has a message for you: many, many thanks. In a world where retail…
Can electronic drums be authentic? For Roland, the answer is a resounding yes. The company gathered members of the press and notable drummers at their United States headquarters in Los…
The role of the signature artist-model guitar in MI retail has changed along with the culture of the guitar. For years, the artist’s name was the main or even the…
Born out of a retail and repair shop founded by John Packer in England in 1974, John Packer Ltd. is now a worldwide-force in the design and manufacture of brass…
The widely reported decline in electric guitar sales has been attributed to a number of things, from how the hyper-masculine image that electric guitars have projected since the 1980s has…
In Victoria Wasylak’s excellent profile of Lexington, Massachusetts’ guitar dealer, The Music Emporium (page 64), co-owner Joe Caruso says of the Boston areas’ Guitar Center locations: “They didn’t put us…
Making financial decisions has never been easy for business owners. When given a choice, the tyranny of the urgent usually wins over the severity of the important. Imagine there are…
