St Louis buys Hamilton Stands
Saint Louis Music (SLM) has completed the acquisition of Hamilton Stands. Hamilton is the oldest stand company in the world and one of the oldest MI brands in the US., having…
Orange Musicboard2 hits US market
Orange Music Education (OME) launched its Musicboard2 at the annual Conference of NAfME, the National Association for Music Educators, in Nashville Tennessee recently. The Orange Musicboard2 is the only interactive whiteboard that…
New Seagull mandolin launches
Canadian guitar brand Seagull, has launched a new domestically manufactured mandolin, available in the UK through 440 Distribution. Sporting a maple neck-through body, the S8 features a solid Sitka spruce top with…
The Beat Goes On: Major Players in Electronic Drums & Percussion Discuss Trends in the Market Segment
Interest in electronic percussion had sort of “ebbed and flowed” from the ‘70s through the early 2000s, but in recent years it seems like those types of instruments have solidly…
Electronic Drums & Percussion: Electronic Drums Continue to Appeal to a Niche Market, While Hybrid Kits are Here to Stay
Based on this month’s survey – sent out to over 450 MI retailers, globally – electronic drums & percussion represent a fairly static market segment in 2015. While more participants…
Music China 2015: International MI Community Gathers in ‘The Pearl of the Orient’
The news out of China this past summer was mostly centered around the nation’s stock market crash – a main source of global economic volatility for many month – but…
Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum – Kraft Music & The E-Drum
If you asked Ben Kraft, president of Kraft Music, to write about the history of Kraft Music, he’d say that he considers the store to have had two chapters. Chapter…
Strings & Things – Gatchell Violins
Under the “about us” section of the Gatchell website you will see a section labeled “Our Mission.” There are a few paragraphs explaining a number of things the company is…
KMC’s Mark Terry Discusses an Eventful Year
To say that the past 12 or so months have seen a lot of changes for KMC Music could be safely qualified an understatement: In January of 2015, the organization…
Boulder Creek Guitars – Worth Fighting For
The Boulder Creek Guitars warehouse and office space sits amongst pastoral fields of garlic, tomatoes, and corn in Gilroy, California, at the southernmost tip of the Santa Clara Valley. Boulder…
Learning Music: In Praise of Print
I grew up in a home with a grand piano. Although today a trim electric keyboard or other nifty digital instrument may be the musical centerpiece of a home, when…
Remember the 808
A good chunk of this current issue of MMR turns the spotlight on electronic drums & percussion, with significant attention given to how recent (and ever-continuing) technological strides have benefitted…