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News December 26, 2016

Chauvet at Pepsi Funk Fest

The Pepsi Funk Fest Tour stopped at Florida A&M University with rig that was anchored by Rogue R2 Wash and COLORado 2-Quad Zoom Tour fixtures from Chauvet Professional. The festival …

MMR Staff
Dec 26, 2016
News December 22, 2016

Clark Promoted to CFO at Sweetwater

Sweetwater announces that senior vice president of finance Greg Clark has been promoted to senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer. He succeeds CFO Marc Leveridge, who recently…

MMR Staff
Dec 22, 2016
News December 22, 2016

Genelec Adds Whitcore, Copley to Sales Force

 Genelec announces two new key hires bolstering the company’s U.S. sales force: John Whitcore has been named territory manager, and Steffenee Copley has been added as Western Region – sales. The…

MMR Staff
Dec 22, 2016
News December 21, 2016

RBI Purchases Toca Percussion

Fort Worth Texas-based Rhythm Brand Instruments (RBI) has purchased TOCA Percussion® from Drum Workshop, Inc. For over 55 years, RBI has built a network of clinicians, educators, musicians, and customer…

MMR Staff
Dec 21, 2016
News December 21, 2016

Vintage adds new Giltrap signature

Designed by celebrated UK luthier Roger Williams, who has been building and repairing fretted instruments in Lichfield, England for over 15 years, Vintage is launching the VE9000RW ‘Roger Williams’ Nylon Electro-Acoustic Crossover guitar at NAMM. Distributed…

MMR Staff
Dec 21, 2016
News December 21, 2016

Antelope adds more FX models

Antelope Audio has announced several new hardware-based FPGA FX models for its interfaces for the second time in as many months. The latest update furthers the collaboration between Antelope and high-end…

MMR Staff
Dec 21, 2016
News December 21, 2016

Lowden produces UK's 'most expensive' ever guitar

Lowden Guitars has turned out its 20,000th guitar - thought to be the most expensive ever produced in the UK -  and is continuing to expand thanks in the main…

MMR Staff
Dec 21, 2016
News December 21, 2016

Yamaha London poll reveals music education struggles

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MMR Staff
Dec 21, 2016
News December 21, 2016

Yamaha outlines Musikmesse presence

Yamaha is returning to take the entire Portalhaus building at Musikmesse to present Yamaha and other brands including Bösendorfer, Line 6 and Steinberg. The Japanese giant will be located at the western entrance to…

MMR Staff
Dec 21, 2016
News December 21, 2016

PageFlip intros new pedals at NAMM

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MMR Staff
Dec 21, 2016
News December 21, 2016

New partner Down Under for Washburn

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MMR Staff
Dec 21, 2016