Future-Focused Ideas to Fuel Opportunities and Business-Enriching Strategies Announced for The 2022 NAMM Show
The 2022 NAMM Show is announcing more than 150 sessions for established and emerging professionals in the music products, pro audio, and entertainment technology segments. Held in the Anaheim Convention…
Smooth Operators: Coated Guitar & Bass Strings
With only seven percent of participants in this month’s dealer survey on the topic of coated guitar and bass strings reporting sales trending downwards, things are looking pretty darn solid…
Leaders of the Pack: Starter Packs for Fretted Instruments
With the recent pandemic came a historic surge of interest in music-making, especially with respect to fretted instruments. With record numbers of beginning players, it stands to reason that most…
Evolution & Adaptation: Justin Norvell, EVP Product, Fender
Justin Norvell One “silver lining” of the past two-plus years has been folks either taking up a musical instrument for the first time, or rediscovering and re-embracing musical endeavors from…
A Golden Age: Elderly Instruments Celebrates a Half-Century
Lillian and Stan Werbin Few music dealers are as beloved by patrons as Lansing, Michigan’s Elderly Instruments. A mecca for bluegrass, folk music, and “twang,” the store celebrates a major…
Canopus Drum Accessories and Hardware Assign Distribution Rights to Hal Leonard
Highly-desired Canopus products will no longer be hard to find. Starting March 1, Hal Leonard became the exclusive distributor of the Canopus “boutique” line of high-quality drum accessories and hardware…
Trade Regrets: Lloyd Meyer
We received the following on March 11 from NAMM‘s Dan Del Fiorentino: Industry veteran and longtime friend to so many of us, Lloyd Meyer, passed away this morning. And our industry family seems…
The XPND Telescoping Pedalboard from D’Addario
Available now, D’Addario is proud to introduce XPND, a game-changing telescoping pedalboard. With its patented telescoping technology, XPND lets you instantly change the size of your board and the number…
SWIM and NAMM Become WON: Women of NAMM
On International Women’s Day, Smart Women in Music (SWIM) is pleased to announce the group’s evolution to Women of NAMM (WON) and status as an official, all-volunteer council of NAMM.…
Trade Regrets: Carol Jones Zadel, Concert Organist
Carol Jones Zadel, who introduced new organs and keyboard products to music dealers worldwide for more than 40 years, passed away on March 6 at the Eisenhower Health – Rancho…
American Way Marketing Announces Ownership Change
Kathy Donahoe, Tim Ricci, Jakob v. Wolff, and John Musselman American Way Marketing LLC (AWM), a music accessory distributor and producer based in Elkhart, Indiana, is pleased to announce a…
Trade Regrets: Harry Gillum
On March 4, NAMM‘s Dan Del Fiorentino shared the following sad news: Our pal Harry Gillum passed away late last month after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 67…