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2019 Music Products Industry Archive
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Electro-Harmonix is a sponsor of the 25th Anniversary Vans Warped Concerts and Festival in Atlantic City, and is giving away guitar effects pedals to commemorate the partnership.
It’s awarded to only a handful of companies each year, but the creators of pBone - the world’s first plastic trombone which is played across the globe – can now…
Sennheiser has announced that it has appointed Dobbs Stanford Corporation as sales representative for the TOLA region of the U.S. (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana) to represent its Professional AV…
For his current theatre tour of the Benelux, Dutch singer and TV presenter Jan Smit's long-term creative collaborator Martijn Steman was once again tasked with providing refreshing and versatile tour…
More than 60 Yamaha Music School owners and Yamaha music dealers from across North America recently attended the Yamaha Advantage program, a conference designed to help educators and dealers develop…
George Thorogood will be appearing Sam Ash in Hollywood (7360 Sunset Boulevard) on Friday, June 28 for an interview, signing, and demo of the new “Epiphone Ltd Ed. George Thorogood…
Lighting this year’s Aiken Bluegrass Festival, John Berret reflected the heartfelt spirit of bluegrass music with a collection of CHAUVET Professional Rogue fixtures, all supplied by Quest Sound Productions.
Yamaha Corporation of America has partnered with Eastman School of Music to sponsor 15 outstanding graduate and undergraduate students, selected from a national pool of applicants, to participate as fellows…
If the response to the debut of TimelessJobs.com is any indication, the Entertainment Technology job market is red hot, and competition for top talent has never been fiercer.
On Friday, June 14, we received the following from Mackie:I’m reaching out to let you know that last week Mackie lost a dear friend, colleague and Mackie family member –…
La Cité Collégiale recently opened its Excentricité education facility, which features a 1,200-seat theater dubbed The Studio. Patrick Roy of systems integrator group CBCI Telecom spec’d the entire Excentricité project,…
Allen & Heath’s dLive Digital Mixing System played its part at this year’s edition of Coachella, supporting buzz-worthy sets by Billie Eilish and Kanye West’s special Easter Sunday Service.
Sophie Hombert and her company Design Aglaé S.A. recently adorned the popular Ticket to America Startup Competition with her floral display at Disneyland Paris. Adding a captivating glow to this enchanting vista…
St. John’s University recently began standardizing the technology within its classrooms, conference rooms, and meeting spaces, and settled on Sennheiser’s TeamConnect Ceiling as its primary audio-conferencing solution.
The Harland and Wolf Shipyard on Queen’s Island recently hosted the main studio for “Game of Thrones.” A visit to the shipyard-turned-studio with a gaffer friend in early 2011 plunged Keith…
Percussion Marketing Council (PMC) executive officer David Jewell recently provided an informative and educational presentation about the PMC's programs and support offered to every NASMD member/retailer.
Joe Castronovo, president of KORG USA Inc., and Tiffany Stalker, senior manager of Education, joined more than 100 music industry leaders, professional musicians and music education activists in Washington DC,…
St. Verena, a Coptic Orthodox Church in New Port Richey, Florida, worships in a new 600-seat sanctuary equipped with an Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing system controlled by a…
The organizers of Music Expo Turkey are very excited to invite individuals and companies to the first ever exhibition in Turkey dedicated to musical instruments, studio software and equipment, professional…
TKL has been protecting some or the most-respected names in the industry for decades. Whether you own a Martin, Gibson, ESP, Gretsch, Reverend, Ovation, Takamine or many other amazing brands,vchances…
NAMM's June 6 conference call/webinar to review the current status and state of play of Chinese import tariffs with a timeline and direction on how to submit comments, request exemptions, and…
St. Louis Music has announced a new agreement with Mooer Audio to be their exclusive full line distributor in the U.S. of Mooer’s innovative effects pedals and amplification.
This year, Dropkick Murphys added a new twist to their stage presence by having five separate sections of drops that were revealed in stages. Accenting the unveiling of each section,…
PreSonus’ StudioLive 64S brings the power of a large production console to small-format digital mixing, with 76 mixing channels, 43 buses, and 526 simultaneous effects thanks to the all new quad-core FLEX DSP engine.
PianoDisc’s new flagship player system Prodigy offers improved performance, exceptional ease of use, and versatile connectivity opening a whole new world of even better live piano performances of high-resolution concerts…
Yamaha’s FG Red Label series of acoustic guitars is inspired by the original FG Red Label acoustic guitars of the 1960s, the company’s very first steel-string guitars.
Twenty-seven new and inspiring string orchestra pieces from favorite veteran composers such as Alan Lee Silva, Ruth Elaine Schram, and Yukiko Nishimura, make up Excelcia Music Publishing’s first string orchestra…
'The Stan Getz Omnibook' features 54 recorded solos from The Sound, whose illustrious career included five Grammy Awards, induction into the DownBeat Hall of Fame, and career collaborations with Oscar…
IK Multimedia’s UNO Drum is the newest member of the UNO series. Designed in collaboration with Italian analog specialist Soundmachines, UNO Drum offers a wide sonic palette combining fat, punchy…