Breaking industry news, announcements, and developments from across the music products world.
The NAMM Foundation has announced it will invest $600,000 in funding to 17 music-making programs this year, including four international grants. This year’s list of grant recipients includes community, national and…
The Faith acoustic guitar brand is continuing its international expansion, with Barnes & Mullins having secured its first Spanish distribution deal. The firm has struck an exclusive distribution deal with…
Rosetti has added two new audio lines, in the form of Dawn Pro Audio Systems and CAD. Dawn manufactures high-end sound reinforcement products, optimised for portability, ease of use and audio…
Sweetwater has completed a total redesign and expansion of its Music Store, which opened on June 1st in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Now four times the original size and one of…
Cymatic Audio, effective immediately, has created its own North American distribution channel. Industry veteran Tom Sailor has been appointed as their head of operations and sales and marketing for North…
Yamaha helped celebrate the 30th anniversary of the University of Kentucky percussion program by presenting a new 9300 Series marching snare drum to James Campbell, director of percussion studies at…
US drummer and clinician Scott Pellegrom heads over to the UK later in June for a nationwide clinic tour, in association with Dream Cymbals, DW Drum Workshop and SVM Percussion. Pellegrom is…
Calling it the start of the next great chapter in its proud history of serving the MI and Pro Audio industries, KMC Music (www.kmcmusic.com) has announced that it has completed…
Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center that focuses on the needs of professional users, announces two personnel appointments: Susan Starnes has been named senior vice…
On June 10, Mike Adams, Moog Music Inc. president/CEO, stopped production in the factory and gathered the employees for an impromptu meeting. Adams began by saying, "I called you all…
Guildford-based retailer, Andertons is one of the UK's most highly-regarded MI stores, indeed it is the current holder of the MIA's best large retailer award. We put eponymous boss, Mongolian…
A rare report on the UK musical instrument market from Ibisworld predicts growth of 6.2 per cent over the next year, but outlines the extent of the damage caused to…
