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News April 12, 2016

Bespeco of Italy Partners with Italian Speaker Imports

Italian Speaker Imports has expanded its product line and entered into an agreement with Bespeco of Castelfidardo, Italy to be the exclusive distributor of its products in the United States.…

MMR Staff
Apr 12, 2016
News April 12, 2016

Faith launches mini guitar range

Faith Guitars has launched its range of Nomad short-scale guitars in the UK, following an unveiling at NAMM earlier this year. The guitars use solid tone woods, with a scale…

MMR Staff
Apr 12, 2016
News April 12, 2016

Now Universal sues Zildjian

Universal Percussion has filed a lawsuit against Zildjian accusing it of violating its rights in the trademarks S and S SERIES, which Universal has used on cymbals since 2002. Zildjian…

MMR Staff
Apr 12, 2016
News April 12, 2016

Red Chilli takes on Boulder Creek

Red Chilli Audio has taken on exclusive distribution for Boulder Creek & Riptide in the UK & Ireland. Managing Director Steve Helm, said: “I was familiar with the brands from…

MMR Staff
Apr 12, 2016
News April 11, 2016

Universal Percussion Files Suit Against Zildjian

Universal Percussion, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Avedis Zildjian Co., accusing it of violating Universal Percussion's rights in the trademarks S and S SERIES, which Universal Percussion has used…

MMR Staff
Apr 11, 2016
News April 11, 2016

Schaeffer Rejoins AM&S as Senior VP for Allen & Heath

American Music & Sound (AM&S) has announced the appointment of Tim Schaeffer as senior vice president for Allen & Heath USA.   Schaeffer, who has over thirty years’ of pro…

MMR Staff
Apr 11, 2016
News April 11, 2016

Levy's Leathers at Musikmesse 2016

Watch a few clips from this year's gathering in Frankfurt over at MMR TV. Look for our full Show Report in the May issue of MMR.

MMR Staff
Apr 11, 2016
News April 8, 2016

The new Musikmesse - first thoughts

This year's Musikmesse adopted a brave new concept of enhanced B2B features while also turning into a consumer show. Did it work?.... You would expect a new pair of shoes…

MMR Staff
Apr 8, 2016
News April 8, 2016

Universal Audio reveals Fender tie-in

Universal Audio has announced a new development partnership with Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC). This partnership will allow Universal Audio to greatly expand the range of unique guitar processing plug-ins…

MMR Staff
Apr 8, 2016
News April 8, 2016

Carlsbro makes modelling amp move

British guitar marque launches its all-new Stingray D5 and D10 digital modelling portable guitar amps at Musikmesse. Described as “a classic British high gain input” digital modelling guitar amplifiers, they…

MMR Staff
Apr 8, 2016
News April 7, 2016

DANSR Names Scheer Account Specialist

DANSR, Inc. has added Gina Scheer as a Vandoren account specialist in Texas. Gina lives in the DFW area and is a graduate of University of North Texas. After completing…

MMR Staff
Apr 7, 2016
News April 7, 2016

DANSR Posts Q1 2016 Record

DANSR posted their largest ever quarterly sales for Q1 2016.  Led by Vandoren with the introduction of V21 reeds for saxophone, it was also a record breaking quarter for Denis…

MMR Staff
Apr 7, 2016