Breedlove Concert Moon Light
This concert guitar is handcrafted in Bend, Oregon and designed as the lightest guitar body by Breedlove to-date. The Moon Light features an Alaska Sitka spruce top, made from wood…
Holiday Buying Guide
With Summer NAMM disappearing farther and farther away in your rearview, it’s time to look into stocking up on the products you might have missed out on earlier in the…
Korg Names Kwas Technology Product Specialist
Korg USA has added Nick Kwas to their team as Korg’s technology product specialist. Kwas is a graduate of the University of Hartford and lifelong technology enthusiast with extensive experience…
Holiday Buying Season
With over 80 percent of respondents in this month’s dealer survey reporting that between 16-50 percent of their annual sales take place during the holiday season, you’d be hard pressed…
Be Safe Out There
Music has been in the news a lot lately, often for all the wrong reasons. Working backwards through the year, we’re still not really over the massacre in dance club…
Make Each Customer’s Experience Amazing – Part II
In Part II of Tracy Leenman’s guide to achieving higher levels of customer satisfaction, we pick up with “point 2” of her outline... 2) WOW! They were so helpful! Corollary:…
Taking Root: Bluegrass Guitar Sales in 2016
Drawing upon country, Appalachian, Irish, Scottish, and jazz influences, Bluegrass music represents a “big tent,” as they say. As deeply steeped in improvisation as jazz, but with a more “down…
Retail: Elements in the Evolution of Strait Music
Clint Strait, vice president and third generation owner of Strait Music, explains how Baldwin Pianos, The Beatles, and best buddies were elemental in the evolution of his grandfathers’ humble piano…
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Visits Sweetwater
Greg Harris, president and CEO of Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, recently visited Sweetwater for a tour with founder and president Chuck Surack. Mr. Harris was in town to make…
‘A Perfect Fit’ - Sabine Grubmüller of Bösendorfer
A storied name in the design and craft of high quality and aesthetically refined pianos, Bösendorfer has been setting the standard for excellence since 1828. Innovative build techniques and meticulous…
In Praise of Conn-Selmer
There's no substitute for dedicated customer service. As a brick and mortar retailer, I am well aware of the value of the shopping experience and in-store customer service. It is…
The (not so) New Normal
I can state with some authority (as much as helming MMR for a decade or so affords, anyway) that it is absolutely not news that Internet sales present a very…