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Music Products Industry News March 4, 2015

Korg Launches Dance Training App: Step Master

Korg is releasing Step Master, a dance training iPhone app aimed at improving the users’ sense of rhythm in a game like manner. Dancers from beginner to expert level will…

MMR Staff
Mar 4, 2015
Music Products Industry News March 1, 2015

GC Opens New Store in Illinois

Guitar Center opened its 264th location in Champaign, Illinois, on February 26.  Guitar Center’s latest store, a state-of-the-art musical instrument and technology center covering over 8,000 square feet, is the…

MMR Staff
Mar 1, 2015
Music Products Industry News February 28, 2015

Casio Celebrates 'Music in Our Schools Month'

Music offers inspiration, creativity, and expression for students of every level. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of ‘Music in Our Schools Month,’ which was designated by The National Association…

MMR Staff
Feb 28, 2015
Music Products Industry News February 28, 2015

CHAUVET DJ Works Magic with Penn Jillette

As the taller half of the superstar Las Vegas magic team of Penn & Teller, Penn Jillette is a master of illusion, but there was nothing chimerical about the magical…

MMR Staff
Feb 28, 2015
Music Products Industry News February 28, 2015

Blackburn College Revamps Auditorium with Danley

Located in the rural Illinois town of Carlinville, Blackburn College serves six hundred undergraduates. Its unique work program keeps costs low and campus community involvement high by employing students in…

MMR Staff
Feb 28, 2015
Music Products Industry News February 27, 2015

JHS Honored with Milestone Award

NAMM has honored John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd. in Leeds with the Milestone Award for 50 years of service in the music products industry. The award recognizes retailers and…

MMR Staff
Feb 27, 2015
Music Products Industry News February 27, 2015

Join NAMM’s Music Education Advocacy Efforts on Capitol Hill

NAMM members will take the nation’s capital by storm, May 18-21, 2015, making the case that all children deserve comprehensive school music education programs. Leaders of the music product industry,…

MMR Staff
Feb 27, 2015
Music Products Industry News February 27, 2015

World-record Attempt at Musikmesse 2015: 1,000 Drummers Wanted

Musikmesse in Frankfurt will be the venue for a unique spectacle on April 18, 2015: the organisers plan to bring together 1,000 drummers and break the record for the world’s…

MMR Staff
Feb 27, 2015
Music Products Industry News February 27, 2015

Trade Regrets: Richard O’Donnell

Richard O’Donnell passed away on January 15, 2015.O’Donnell was vice president of Yamaha Corporation of America at a very historic time in the company’s growth and development during the 1970s.…

MMR Staff
Feb 27, 2015
Music Products Industry News February 27, 2015

Trade Regrets: Fritz Kollitz

On February 12th, NAMM’s Dan Del Fiorentino sent the following regarding the passing of Fritz Kollitz, founder of Fritz Kollitz Fine Tone Woods:Without a doubt, one of my favorite components…

MMR Staff
Feb 27, 2015
Music Products Industry News February 27, 2015

Trade Regrets: DW Caffey

We recently received the following message from NAMM’s Dan Del Fiorentino:At the time of DW Caffey's NAMM Oral History interview in 2012, he had been tuning pianos for just over…

MMR Staff
Feb 27, 2015