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NEW, DIGITAL VERSION: www.mmrmagazine.com
20th Annual Wholesaler Guide
UpFront Q&A: The Music People
Survey Says:Social Media
Continues to Climb
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MMR Musical Merchandise Review® (ISSN 0027-4615) founded in 1879, is published monthly by Symphony Publishing, LLC, 21 Highland Circle, Suite 1, Needham, MA 02494 (781)453-9310, publisher of School Band and Orchestra, Choral Director, Music Parents America and JazzEd. All titles are federally registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Symphony Publishing, LLC. Subscription Rates: U.S.A., US possessions, one year $32; two years $40. Canada one year $80; all other countries one year $159. Single issues $5 each. May Supplier Directory $35. Periodical-Rate Postage Paid at Boston, MA and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER/SUBSCRIBERS: Send address change to Musi-cal Merchandise Review, P.O. Box 8548, Lowell, MA 01853. Periodicals circulation is directed to music dealers and retailers, wholesalers and distributors, importers and exporters and manufacturers of all types of musical instruments and their accessories, related electronic sound equipment, general musical accessories, musical publications and teaching aides. The publishers of this magazine do not accept responsibility for statements made by their advertisers in business competion. No portion of this issue may be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. Copyright ©2011 by Symphony Publishing, LLC, all rights reserved. Printed in USA.
In every issue:
4 Editorial6 Upfront20 People81 New Products94 Supplier Scene97 Classifieds104 Advertisers’ Index
22 UpFront Q&A: The Music People
MMR checks in with the Henne-seys – patriach Jim, son John, and daughter Sharon – of The Music People (TMP) to get the scoop about ongoing and upcoming devel-opments at the company.
38 20th Annual Wholesaler GuideA comprehensive listing of whole-salers in North America, includ-ing categories of product and principle brands carried by each.
66 Fresh Faces: NOVA MusicWhile Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and the like are the “tools of today” when it comes to marketing and selling musical instruments to end-users (see this month’s cover story on page 28), Erich RussekRobbins is aiming to make his newly opened NOVA Music Center (Clifton, Va.) a community hotspot for old fashioned face-to-face interaction between musician and retailer…
70 NAMM Exhibitor Listing
74 NAMM University Schedule
ContentsAUGUST 2011 VOL.170 NO. 8
28 Spotlight: Survey Says… Social Media Continues to Climb
MMR takes an in-depth look at the ever-increasing role that Social Media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are
playing in the day-to-day business of MI retail. Cover design by Laurie Chesna
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INTRODUCING THE ALL-NEW H2N HANDY RECORDER.
With five studio-quality microphones onboard, the H2n records Mid-Side, X/Y and Surround Sound all at the turn of a switch. Wait until you hear it… Available this September.
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EditorialSidney Davis
sdavis@ symphonypublishing.com
Volume 170 Number 8 August 2011
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Pop-Up Pianos Hit Right NoteWhat better way to bring music to the masses than the recently concluded two week Sing for Hope music festival that scattered 88 grand and upright pianos throughout the five New York boroughs? Sing For Hope opera singer co-founders Ca-mille Zamora and Monica Yunus spark-plugged the event, billed as, “the world’s largest street piano installation.” It’s estimated that two million people viewed or attended more than 1,000 concerts ranging in location from the Louis Armstrong House Museum and Lincoln Center to the New York Stock Exchange. More than 60 professional artists and designers including Isaac Mizrahi, Kate Spade, and Diane Von Furstenberg painted the 28 grand pianos and 60 uprights. The grand pianos were located in indoor public spaces and the uprights outdoors. After the event, all the pianos were donated and distributed to schools and hospitals that Sing for Hope serves year round.
This was the second year New York City hosted the interactive event, which originated as “Play Me I’m Yours” by its British creator Luke Jerram in 2010. Ac-cording to the New York Times, the idea of putting pianos outdoors and letting anyone play them has spread to more than 20 cities including Jacksonville, Fla. and Denver, Co. The non-profit organization maintained high visibility during the two week period by sponsoring a variety of contests and presentations employing social networking sites. One contest invited individuals to submit their pop-up piano experience and have people vote for their favorite; another was for the best pop-up piano music video in the under-18 age category, the winner receiving a piano for their school, and every day of the event a “photo of the day” was selected and highlighted on the Sing for Hope website. “Play all 88 Pianos” was another promotional activity encouraging participants to make a video showing themselves playing at all locations.
According to the mission statement, Sing for Hope mobilizes professional artists – from classical musicians to photographers and Broadway performers – in volunteer service programs that benefit schools, hospitals, and communities. The organiza-tion has three core programs: Art U which introduces under-resourced students to the arts; Healing Arts which brings live performances to patients and care givers in healthcare facilities; and Community Arts which enhances access to the arts and pro-vides support for event that benefit charitable causes. Through their Community Arts program, the organization has raised over $4 million for partner non-profits.
On another note, this issue updates our continuing coverage of the emergence and growth of dealer websites (see page 28) and their use of social media. While websites have become a staple in the promotional arsenal, it’s obvious that the evolution from informational to e-commerce sites is on ongoing process. This is sup-ported by the fact that while more than three-quarters of the respondents in our recent survey indicated a re-design during the past two years, 62 percent stated they are considering another redesign within the next twelve months. As for the use and effectiveness of social media, one might well heed the advice of Tower Music’s Greg Maglione, who tells us that, “Decisions about social media should include con-sultation with younger staff members… I’m still of the generation that picks up a telephone but the younger generation uses (the Internet) as a primary communica-tions tool.” How do dealers view the Web? We submit the following comments: “the Web has ruined used instrument prices and reduced the margins on almost everything”; and, on the opposite end of the spectrum: “It’s the most cost-effective way to reach my customers…” And finally one thought that may have universal agreement: “Look at the website the same way you view your store, customers like clean designs just as they want to visit an easy to navigate retail interior…”
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“We’ll still keep the traditions that made Jordan Kitt’s Music great,” explains Chris Syllaba, who recently acquired the iconic keyboard retailer. “We’re just now operating leaner and more efficiently.”
Now president and CEO of JKM Music Group, Syllaba has a long history with Jordan Kitt’s – a trait he shares with CFO Ray Fugere: “Both of us had been with Jordan Kitt’s for a long, long time, in various sales and management posi-tions. I grew up with the company and when I saw this opportunity, it made good sense. Going forward, I think one of the first things is for us, in some ways, to go back to our roots – servicing the educational community, institutions, while providing the absolute best cus-tomer service. At the same time we want to continue developing our relationships
with our suppliers. We’ve substantially reduced overhead and we’ve restructured commissions for our excellent sales staff, which has already resulted in improved performance.”
JKM Music Group currently fields four retail outlets – Jordan Kitt’s Music in Rockville, Md. and Fairfax, Va., and
Steinway Piano Galleries in Alpharetta and Atlanta, Ga. Additionally, the busi-ness will continue to operate educational facilities in Sterling, Va. and Beltsville, Md. Also as part of the restructuring, longtime MI figure, Steve Mills is now vice president and general manager of the Atlanta-area business. Syllaba and Fugere negotiated the acquisition with members of the McCormick family, who had owned and operated Jordan Kitt’s since the mid-‘70s.
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Jordan Kitt’s Acquisition
Chris Syllaba and Ray Fugere
Global Truss America Issues Statement Regarding Brand Name
In the wake of a competitor issuing claims that it is the authorized distributor of Global Truss products in the United States and Canada, Global Truss Ameri-ca has issued the following statement:
“It has come to Global Truss’s atten-tion that a competitor is attempting to play off Global Truss’s hard earned name and reputation as the premier entertainment trussing provider in the Americas. This particular competitor has even recently taken to informing customers and dealers that they are now the “sole and exclusive” authorized Global Truss distributor in the United States and Canada.
“The absurdity and clear falsehood in this statement can easily be seen by anyone who simply types www.glo-baltruss.com into their browser or the words “global truss” in their search en-gine. The company who supports that web site is Global Truss America, LLC. Products are available for sale and pur-chase. Global Truss continues to sell and distribute its products to customers. Consumers should not be fooled by these absurd statements by an infringer.
“Global Truss and its design are fed-erally registered trademarks in the Unit-ed States to Global Truss America, LLC.
These federal registrations clearly make Global Truss America the sole and ex-clusive authorized seller of Global Truss products in the United States. Copies of these federal registrations are attached to this statement. Further copies can be found on the web site in the United States Trademark Office. The Global Truss trademarks are filed by Global Truss America, LLC throughout the Americas.
“Global Truss America, LLC is an American DJ company. American DJ maintains a strict policy of pursuing any and all infringers of its intellectual prop-erty. Global Truss and the American DJ Group are cooperating with law enforce-ment to pursue the perpetrators of these illegal acts. Anyone who attempts to dis-tribute infringing products from any party other than Global Truss should be aware of their potential liability in this regard.
“In December 2010, Global Truss America learned that GLP (German Light Products), and its manager, Mr. Mark Ravenhill, made an arrangement with one of Global Truss America’s fac-tories to purchase unauthorized products for importation into the United States in violation of Global Truss America’s rights and US law. GLP and Mr. Raven-
hill have been sued in United States District Court for the Central District of California, Case No. CV 11-168 SJO (SSx). Global Truss America no longer does business with that Chinese Factory. Global Truss expects to achieve a sub-stantial judgment against those parties at the conclusion of the case.
“Customers should also be aware that the truss product being sold by GLP is not authorized by Global Truss. Global Truss America does not warrant those products if they fail and will not accept them for return or replacement.”
For more information or to pur-chase genuine and authorized Global Truss products, contact Global Truss’ Ken Kahn at (323) 415-6225 or email [email protected].
In the May Supplier Directory Davitt and Hanser Music was inadvertently listed as the Cana-dian distributor for Shure Prod-ucts. They distribute Shure Prod-ucts in the US.
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Alan Vater of Vater Percussion, Joe Vasko of KMC, and Niko Spanoz of Fender.
Jonathan Morgan and Carlo Saenz of RMI Inc.
Ed Miller, president of KMC
Richard Berger and Dann Skutt of Grover Trophy Music
KMC Music held their 24th Annual “Everett Porter Uninten-tional” Charity Golf Tournament at the beautiful Golf Club of Avon, Conn. on June 6.
Industry executives tee’d up for a scramble to support The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children with serious illnesses, and Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which supports research, education, screening, and treatment programs targeting breast cancer in the state of Connecticut.
The winning team was Team Delmar including: Don Mul-ligan, John DiMugno, Marc Begin, and Jim Griffin.
KMC Annual Charity Golf Tournament
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DarkHorse• 15-Watt All Tube Lunch-Box Head
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• Simple Gain, Bass, Treble & Master Volume Control Set
• Brit / USA / Pure Switch for the Tone Stack
• Uses Hand Selected 12AX7 (x2), 6V6 (x2), and 12AU7 (x1) tubes
• Versatile Speaker Outputs (allows Dark Horse Head to drive Varying Cabinet Configurations)
• All Metal Chassis
• Made in Canada
IronHorse• 40-Watt All Tube Compact Head
• Operates in Fixed Bias or Cathode Bias Mode
• Simple Gain, Bass, Treble, Master Controls
• Three Stage Clean/Pure/Solo Mode Switch
• Hand Selected 12AU7 (x 1), 12AX7 (x2) and EL34 (x2) Tubes
• Series Effects Loop
• Selectable 4 & 8 ohm Outputs for Varying Cabinet Configurations
• Accepts Optional Two Button foot switch
• All Metal Chassis
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QuarterHorse• 25-Watt Two-Channel Guitar Amp in a Compact Stompbox Format
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• Standard 1/4-Inch Speaker Output Jack Direct Connects to Cabinet
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• Rugged Die Cast Enclosure
• Made In Canada
WARNING! This is NOT a Stompbox - It’s a 25-Watt Microamp!WARNING! This is NOT a Stompbox - It’s a 25-Watt Microamp!
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Jim D’Addario Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 Award WinnerD’Addario & Company recently announced that Jim D’Addario, CEO, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 New York Award in the Distribution, Manufacturing and Construction category.
According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award recognizes outstanding en-trepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such ar-
eas as innovation, financial perfor-mance and per-sonal commitment to their businesses and communities. Mr. D’Addario was selected by an in-dependent panel of judges, and the award was present-ed at a gala event
at the Marriott Marquis on June 8, 2011.“It’s an honor to be selected as a winner
of this esteemed award,” says D’Addario, CEO of D’Addario & Company, Inc. “It is a testament to the hard work of every-one at D’Addario & Company, and we are grateful for the recognition from such a prestigious organization.”
As a New York award winner, Mr. D’Addario is now eligible for consider-ation for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 National Award. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the overall Ernst & Young En-trepreneur Of The Year National Award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, Califor-nia, on November 12, 2011. The awards are the culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum®, which will be held November 9–13, 2011.
Jim D’Addario With Award
iMSO to Meet with Vendors at Summer NAMMAfter the successful launch of the Independent Music Store Own-ers (iMSO) iBUY generator, many vendors have asked how they can become involved with this rapidly growing group. During the Sum-mer NAMM show, iMSO will host a vendors meeting on Friday, July 21,at 8:30 A.M. in room 208.
This meeting will explain: who is Independent Music Store Own-ers / iMSO; how the iBUY Gen-erator will improve sales and the entire ordering process between vendors and dealers; and how vendors can become a part of this group.
See us at NAMM Booth 1201
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Tuner envy.Not every tuner is precise enough to be placed on a guitar virtuoso’s headstock.
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Recently, a group of Mexico’s top LP dealers visited Latin Percussion’s head-quarters in Garfield, NJ. The entourage was accompanied by executive members of Casa Veerkamp, the exclusive LP dis-tributor for Mexico.
The group was treated to a program entitled, “The Soul of LP,” in which founder Martin Cohen shared his in-sights and experiences since the com-pany’s inception. He also discussed how artists like Tito Puente and Giovanni Hi-dalgo have played a critical role in LP’s development of highly innovative musi-cal instruments throughout its history.
LP product designer, Andy Krol dis-cussed how Cohen’s original vision for com-pelling LP products has continued through-out recent years with the development of wildly successful products such as the One-
Handed Triangle and the LP Qube Shaker.Several prominent LP artists were
also on hand for the visit, including Eddie Montalvo, Little Johnny Rivero, Bobby Sanabria and Chembo Corniel. Each had an opportunity share their experiences of
working with Cohen and the LP team.The day was concluded with a visit to
New York City, where the group enjoyed dinner and a rousing performance of Afro Cuban music by LP Artist Pedrito Martinez and his band.
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Orange Amps Launches Fundraising ‘Music Aid for Joplin’ AuctionAs a result of the most destructive torna-do season in recent memory, 153 people have been killed in Joplin, Missouri – home of the Glory Days Music Store – and half the town was destroyed, includ-ing Glory Days, itself, and the owner’s home.
Orange Amps has decided to set up a fundraising ‘Music Aid for Joplin’ auc-tion of very special musical equipment from Orange and a number of other manufacturers. CEO Cliff Cooper will be working with Ted Owen, the auction house Fame Bureau’s managing director, who is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in music equipment and memorabilia.
Orange Amps will donate a rare and valuable (last one of only twenty made) Union Jack half-stack worth at least $6,000. Orange has also helped to coordinate support from other musi-cal instrument manufacturers/suppliers and the auction will include a number of very desirable items which are being
added to on a daily basis. The list cur-rently includes:• Sabian 14” Paragon Crash person-
ally signed by RUSH’s Neil Peart with the Steampunk logo, personal-ized with the winner’s name
• Sabian leather jacket• Orange CR50BXT bass amp,
signed by RUSH’s Geddy Lee, per-sonalized with the winner’s name
• Yamaha Gigmaker 5pc drum set with hardware and Paiste 101 cym-bals
• Yamaha New A Series Acoustic/Electric Guitar
• Sierra Guitars Sierra Sunrise Audi-torium Acoustic Guitar
• Shure Microphones Super 55• GuitarWorld 12-Month Subscription
David Peterson, owner of Glory Days Music Store, commenting on the auction said, “On hearing about Or-ange’s plans to raise proceeds through an auction, I was just floored. I didn’t think for one minute that someone would do something like that for me without asking for it. It’s an incredible gesture.”
“We have seen the heartbreaking tragedy that has taken place in the USA, particularly in Joplin Missouri,” said Cooper, “and we felt that we would like to do something in the spirit of that spe-cial relationship that exists between the USA and the UK. The money raised will help the re-establishment of the Glory Days Music Store.”
The American Red Cross in Joplin is providing emergency assistance at five separate locations. This includes first aid and emergency health services, mental health services, distribution of bulk items such as recovery kits, toiletries and items needed for the clean-up such as gloves, rakes, masks, and vital water supplies and snacks.
To assist Orange Amps and its fellow manufacturers to help and support the Joplin community please go to Fame Bu-reau’s website and bid on one of the many items available. The auction begins Mon-day, July 18th at FameBureau.com. Auc-tion ends Wednesday, August 24th
Any companies wishing to donate to this cause can contact Orange Amps or the Fame Bureau direct via their website www.famebureau.com
LP Hosts Casa Veerkamp and Mexican Dealer Contingent
Front row (l to r): Paula Leticia Illescas, Martin Cohen, Angélica Díaz, Rosalba Díaz, Librado Palma. Seated, Middle row (l to r): Jorge Luis Pando, Sergio Noriega, Eduardo García. Back row (l to r): Chembo Corniel, Gustavo Hurtado, Juan Magdaleno Jr., Salvador Iriarte, Jorge Arturo Betancourt, Raul Carlos Uriegas, Ernesto Veerkamp, Gamaliel Ramos, Eddie Montalvo, Juan José Hugo Ceja, Marco Escobedo, Little Johnny Rivero
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Zildjian 2010 Salesman of the Year for CanadaThe Avedis Zildjian Company recently announced that Frank DiFruscia was awarded Zildjian’s Salesman of the Year Award for Canada at Music Industries Association of Canada (MIAC).
Dale Kroke, senior VP and general manager of B&J Music LTD, presented a cymbal signed by Zildjian CEO Craigie Zildjian and Debbie Zildjian, VP of Hu-
man Resources, to DiFruscia in recogni-tion of his increasing sales by 29 percent in the Montreal territory.
Dale Kroke (B&J Music LTD), Frank Di Fruscia (B&J Music LTD), and Jerry Smith
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Alfred Music Receives Paul Revere Awards for Graphic ExcellenceAlfred Music Publishing has been honored with four Paul Revere Awards for graphic excellence by the Music Publishers Asso-ciation of the United States during their annual meeting held on June 3, 2011 at the Harvard Club of New York City.
Each year, outstanding examples of graphic design are selected by the MPA to be honored by the Paul Revere Award, acknowledging publishers for their efforts in creating art for the music industry. This year, Alfred Music Publishing took the top honor for the graphic design of
the Audition Repertoire for the Advanc-ing Pianist method series in the catego-ries of “Cover Design Featuring Graphic Elements,” “Book Design in Folios,” and
“Keyboard Music Notesetting.” The Led Zeppelin Ultimate Guitar Play-Along and The Michael John La Chiusa Songbook music fo-lios both received the 2nd Prize Award in the “Book Design Folios” category.
In addition to the nods for exemplary graphic design work, the MPA also hon-ored Morty Manus, president of Alfred Music Publishing, with the “2011 Life-time Achievement Award” for his de-cades of devotion and continued service to educators, teachers, musicians, and the music community.
To mark what would’ve been the 96th birthday of guitar virtuoso, studio/re-cording innovator, and pioneer of the solidbody electric guitar, Les Paul, Google offered users a “playable guitar” on their homepage on Thursday, June 9.
The ‘Google doodle’ – the large, ever-changing Google logo placed just above the search box on google.com’s main page – celebrating Les Paul could be strummed
like one of the iconic Gibson guitars bear-ing his name, and the resulting music (strings were arranged to easily play a
major 7th chord on the left side of the doodle, and a major chord on the right) could be recorded and played back.
The first “playable” Google doodle appeared last year when an operable Pac Man doodle celebrated the game’s 30th anniversary
Google Honors Les Paul
‘Wanna Play Music Day’ at 2011 Summer NAMMNAMM recently announced that tickets are now available for “Wan-na Play Music Day” being held at the Nashville Convention Center on Saturday, July 23 during 2011 Sum-mer NAMM. Tickets for “Wanna Play Day” cost $20 at the door.
The trade-only Summer NAMM show is opening its doors to the Nashville community for a one day sneak-peak (no purchases) at more than 350 exhibits featuring the in-dustry’s hottest music products yet to hit the market—from guitars and
keyboards to DJ gear and pro audio and lighting products. The event will also offer a schedule of hands-on educational music-making sessions, clinics and special events led by local and national music industry insiders and celebrities.
For more information about “Wanna Play Music Day,” visit www.namm.org/summer/2011/wannaplay. Updates are being add-ed to the site up until the date of the event.
Blessing Offers Free Artist Clinic DrawingBlessing is inviting instrumental music educators of all levels to participate in a drawing for a free clinic with one of the Blessing brass artists. The artists performing on Blessing brass instru-ments represent a wide-array of musi-cal genres including jazz, classical, and chamber music. All the artist-related expenses for the clinic will be paid for
by Blessing.Entries for the drawing may be sub-
mitted online at www.blessingbrass.com/free through September 1st. Bless-ing will select and announce the winner on September 2nd, 2011. A complete listing of Blessing brass artists is located on the Blessing website at www.blessing-brass.com/artists/
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Mass. Piano Dealer Sued for False AdvertisingPiano dealer Roger’s Piano’s “Going Out of Business” advertisements have been running a bit too long, according to a new lawsuit against the shop. Massachu-setts Attorney General’s office sued the Hanover, Mass. store earlier this spring on claims of false advertising, asserting that the store has been claiming its im-minent closure since at least 2007.
Attorney General Martha Coakley will seek penalties against store owner Roger Shaffer in court. According to the lawsuit, Mr. Shaffer violated Massachusetts law by running newspaper advertisements with false statements such as “store-closing,” “bankruptcy,” and “liquidation” sale. Mr. Shaffer also allegedly touted steep dis-counts off prices that were never offered in violation of Mass. retail regulations.
The state requested preliminary in-junction against the store last month,
hoping to end Shaffer’s apparent ad violations and limit transfers of the busi-ness’s assets while the case was open, but a Superior Court judge denied this request. The court noted that while the state was likely to win its case against the store, that Shaffer had been cooperative during the case thus far and further dis-cipline was unwarranted.
“There is no indication that custom-ers have complained about unfair ad-vertisements, suggesting that Shaffer’s customers have been satisfied with their purchases,” ruled the court. “An adver-tising violation, while serious, shouldn’t cripple a business.”
The store’s “bankruptcy” advertise-ments, meanwhile, have been proven legitimate – such ads were published on the occasion of the bankruptcy of one of Shaffer’s piano suppliers.
Martin Trademarks HeadstockC.F. Martin & Co. has announced the trademark of the distinctive headstock configuration it has been using on its gui-tars for over 161 years. This is part of its ongoing commit-ment to protect its intellectual property, including the many innovations in design, manufacture and production of its instruments.
“The clean, simple, iconic shape of the Martin guitar headstock has long been recognized by consumers as one of the primary identifying brand and de-sign elements of our guitars,” said C. F. Martin & Co. vice president, corporate operations Gregory Paul. “Use of this shape by others can only be intended to
create confusion in the marketplace.”Martin Guitar has been using for many
years various trademarks and proprietary designs and designations in connection with the sale of its acoustic guitars, both nation-wide and internationally. This
intellectual property includes Martin’s guitar headstock that has been used since at least 1850. The headstock configura-tion is now protected by U.S. Trademark Registration No. 3,048,307. Any ques-tions regarding this trademark, other C. F. Martin & Co. intellectual property, or possible counterfeiting thereof, should be addressed to Gregory Paul, P.O. Box 329, Nazareth, Pa. 18064-0329.
Dorothy W. Zeagler, president of Zeagler Mu-sic in Monroe, Louisiana passed away on May 12th at the age of 86.
Born May 1st, 1925 in New Iberia, Louisiana to railway express agent Willie E. Williams and piano teach-er Ruby C. Williams, Dorothy nev-er attended the same school two years in a row. In 1931, after per-forming on experimental television in the RCA building, she was one of three winners in the Paul White-man nationwide talent contest.
Because of New York child labor laws she was unable to join his show. For many years Doro-thy traveled with her sister to schools performing for those stu-dents who could afford the nickel or dime admission. Married to Everett B. Zeagler in 1946, she reared five children, all of whom either became professional musi-cians or went on to work in the music industry. Dorothy and hus-band, Everett, purchased a small sheet music business in 1968 which is still in operation today as Zeagler Music in Monroe. To date, Everett still goes to work each day in the store operated by his son, Grayson. Dorothy’s son, Fred, is owner of Zeagler Music in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Joe Campana passed away on June 5, 2011 at the age of 89.
Campana established Cam-pana Music in Lafayette, Calif. in 1947, offering music lessons and repairs along with a large range of musical products for sale.
Trade Regrets:
California’s Matthews Music to Close Its Doors This SummerCalifornia music shop Matthews Music announced its final days earlier this sum-mer. The 27-year-old shop on Marys-ville’s small Main Street told the local paper, the Appeal-Democrat, that they just couldn’t scrape by any longer. A number of factors were at play in the shop’s de-mise (a final date for the store’s closing hasn’t been set yet), including a strug-gling economy, defunct music education
systems, and competition from big box stores like Sam’s Club and Costco.
The shop was opened in 1984 by long-time favorite local music teacher Joe Mat-thews, who ran the shop until he passed away in 2008. Matthews’s son-in-law, Lane David, has run the store since then.
“It’s been a rough few years, that’s for sure,” said David. “I’ve got 20 percent un-employment here in Yuba-Sutter area and
it isn’t helping.” David says he’s working on selling off the inventory and will assess things later in the summer. He currently plans to sell the building once the store closes.
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Full Compass Systems welcomes Michael Turner to the company as mar-keting manager. Turner comes to the position with a broad range of skills and experience in the areas of sales and marketing management, adver-tising, design and education.
After a successful 45-year career with the Zildjian Company, Jerry Do-negan, vice president of international sales, decided to retire effective, July 1. Donegan spent his entire career with Zildjian. Beginning in an entry-level position, he grew within the company through a series of promotions to positions of increased responsibility. Having served on the senior management team since 1991, Donegan was respon-sible for growing Zildjian’s presence in in-ternational markets and helping to guide the company’s strategic decision making.
Zildjian also has an-nounced the promotion of Bob DeLorenzo to the posi-tion of vice president of glob-al sales effective July 1. Since joining Zildjian in 2006, De-Lorenzo has assumed a wide range of responsibilities with the company, including management of national accounts, sales planning and fore-casting, as well as category management for drumsticks and Z Gear.
Fender Musical Instru-ments Corp. (FMIC) has announced that music indus-try veteran Jeff Lorenz will be joining Fender in the new-ly created position, director of procurement and sourcing of KMC Music’s percussion division. He will oversee the procurement and sourcing of all KMC percussion brands, including: Latin Percussion, Toca Percussion, Gretsch Drums and Gibraltar Hardware.
Lorenz is a 17-year music industry veteran who formerly served as director of merchandise for the Drum Division at Guitar Center, Inc.
Sweetwater recently hired five new employees, four of which are new sales engineers. The new hires bring total employment at Sweetwater to 400.
Sales engineer T.J. Bechill received his Bach-elor’s Degree in Music Technology from the Uni-versity of St. Francis in Fort Wayne, Ind., a program that Sweetwater provided funding to establish four years ago. He is originally from Wauseon, Ohio.
Sales engineer Jim Cooper is from Houston, Texas and has a degree in audio engineering from Houston Community Col-lege.
Sales engineer Nathan Malone is a native of Staf-ford, Virginia and received an Associates Degree in Recording Arts, and a Bachelors in Music Busi-ness from Full Sail in Or-lando, Florida.
Sales engineer Troy Watson attended Purdue University before trans-ferring to The Institute of Production and Recording in Minneapolis, where he received his Associates De-gree in Audio Production.
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John Geiger has joined Zildjian as national ac-counts manager. Geiger brings over 20 years experi-ence in the music industry to his new role at Zildjian. Most recently, he was a key accounts manager for Korg USA. Geiger also held similar positions with D’Addario & Company Inc., Peavey Electronics Corporation, and Yamaha Corporation of America.
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MMR: Let’s discuss the history of On-Stage Stands and how it expanded into other lines.
Jim Hennessey: The Music People, Inc. found its first success meeting the needs of working musicians, providing inexpen-sive and functional products. There was a demand for affordable microphone and instrument stands, and The Music People thrived fulfilling that need better than any-one else. Now, however, The Music People has responded to requests from dealers to produce high-end products to compete with pro-level brands. The hallmark in-novation and value engineered into On-Stage Stands for three decades has trans-lated well to the company’s recent pro-level products. Studio booms, keyboard stands, and the new MS9700 Series microphone stands have gained a growing share of the tour-grade production market.
On-Stage Stands is a leading producer of MI accessories and can be found at mu-sic stores, band rehearsals, recording stu-dios, and live gigs everywhere. The suc-cess of On-Stage Stands has etched a deep and widespread understanding that The Music People is a stand company, and On-Stage Stands continues to be the first association consumers make with The Music People. Increasingly, though, other
members of The Music People family of products have been making their marks on the accessories industry. On-Stage Gear™, DrumFire™, Hennessey Guitar Parts®, HotWires®, On-Stage Sticks™, and Audio-Spectrum™ are all sister brands to On-Stage Stands, and they are all growing in terms of product offerings and market share. Yes, The Music People is a stand company, but its various brands have established it as a major supplier of drums, cases, tuners, picks, audio cables, and other MI accessories.
MMR: Can you tell us about any OEM business The Music People in involved with?
Sharon Hennessey: The Music Peo-ple will not divulge who its OEM partners are, but there is a decent chance that your favorite guitar stand, keyboard stand, or speaker stand pack may have been manu-factured by them, even if it doesn’t have an On-Stage Stands logo. The expertise, efficiency, facilities, and relationships de-veloped by The Music People evolved into custom accessory agreements with many of the most recognizable names in the in-dustry. The Music People’s OEM business has grown particularly fast in recent years as the company has repeatedly proven that
Upfront
AQ& The Music PeopleMMR chats with Jim, John, and Sharon Hennessey
With a sterling reputation and having fielded one of the industry’s
go-to brands for three decades (On-Stage Stands), The Music People
(TMP) is amongst the MI world’s premier suppliers and distributors.Founder Jim Hennessey cut his teeth fabricating metal for Kaman Aircraft, eventu-
ally shifting over to the company’s Ovation Guitar division. With a simple, yet hugely innovative idea (multiple guitar stands) serving as catalyst, Hennessey left Ovation and the rest, as they say, is history.
Now a legitimately global company with locations in Connecticut, California, and China, The Music People remains a true family operation – Jim today works alongside his son, John and daughter, Sharon. MMR recently spoke with the Hennesseys about TMP’s ongoing expansion into the realm of pro audio, issues affecting all of the music retail marketplace, and the company’s plans for the future…
“Yes, The Music People is a stand company, but its
various brands have established
it as a major supplier of drums,
cases, tuners, picks, audio
cables, and other MI accessories.”
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it has the design team, the factory facilities, and the systems in place to deliver the qual-ity and quantity its partners demand.
MMR: What was behind the move into pro audio and how has it progressed so far?
John Hennessey: The fastest grow-ing member of The Music People family is its pro audio division, TMP Pro Distribu-tion™. The Music People has offered mi-crophones and other audio products, along with true deployment expertise, for more than 25 years, but it wasn’t until 2006 that it launched the dedicated TMP Pro divi-sion. TMP Pro markets itself as a leverag-ing tool for dealers. For example, when a dealer enters into a manufacturer direct program, it usually means he/she is obli-gated to minimum orders with that brand. TMP Pro gives dealers access to 150+ pro audio brands and thousands of products, far more than any single dealer could possibly maintain on his or her own, with no mini-mum order commitments. Not only does this allow dealers to offer their customers an expanded selection, it lets them pick the brains of the audio wizards at TMP Pro for a non-biased opinion of the models across each product category. Every member of the TMP Pro staff has a background in live
and/or commercial audio, and each receives regular training on the newest products and technologies entering the market by factory engineers and their representatives.
MMR: How do you work with deal-ers to promote your products?
Sharon: The relationship between The Music People and its dealers is a tight one. The company taps the needs and requests of dealers to develop new products and to im-prove existing models. In turn, the company utilizes its experience to provide high value, high turn products that dealers can sell in volume at a healthy margin.
In addition, The Music People prides itself on its sale-oriented packaging. It has been recognized for excellence repeatedly with awards for marketing and POP dis-plays. The goal is always to create sharp dis-plays that inform both the dealer and con-sumer about the products within, and that act as a silent salesperson in the retail setting.
MMR: How important are your websites to overall business? What do you hope to achieve via your online presence?
John: The Music People, Inc has reached out to dealers via social media outlets and recently redesigned its flagship
website, www.onstagestands.com. The company’s pro audio division expects to introduce its own redesigned site, www.tmppro.com, later this year. Our ongoing objective is to provide dealers with a secure environment to place and research orders.
MMR: How many warehouses do you currently have, and where? Also, please comment on the office in China – what business is handled there?
John: The Music People is headquar-tered in Berlin, Conn. where it maintains its offices and primary warehouse. An ad-ditional warehouse is located in California, and the company soon plans to open a third distribution center in the Midwest to expedite and lower the cost of shipping for its central U.S. dealers. This year the com-pany has also announced the opening of an office in China, from which it can focus on quality control and new product develop-ment in its proprietary and OEM ventures.
MMR: Can you discuss The Mu-sic People’s Involvement with issues concerning the MI retail industry, as a whole?
Sharon: Product, logo, and web-site knockoffs are an increasing problem
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that threatens the industry as a whole, so The Music People has become an active industry activist against piracy and sup-ports legislative and commercial efforts to curb the counterfeit market. This ad-vocacy, along with my own recent election to the NAMM board of directors, has es-tablished The Music People as a bona fide and growing leader in the industry.
MMR: Any future developments on the horizon that you’d care to talk about?
Jim: Export business is a quickly grow-ing aspect of The Music People’s future. The company already ships to 40 countries and is expanding worldwide. The export team heads to three international trade-shows a year to actively recruit importers and distributors around the world. In-ternational distributors who sign on with The Music People are provided with an extensive online imagebank, product cata-logs, individual product sell sheets, editable print advertisements and specialized sup-port from a dedicated export department. With a comprehensive line of products and marketing services, On-Stage Stands offers international distributors a complete pack-age at a very low cost. The Music People is proud of its international growth and ex-pects the pace to increase.
MMR: Final thoughts?Jim: The Music People started when
I observed the need for a multiple guitar stand. Now The Music People itself is an entity of multiple companies, each of which simultaneously provides special-ized products and diverse expertise. The Music People is a leading company that provides an extensive range of accesso-ries, pro audio products, OEM capabili-ties, product knowledge, and customer service all under one roof.
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It’s more than a slogan; it’s a statement about the power of an industry working together to promote music making and improve business conditions for all of its Members. At NAMM, that means thousands of music retailers, manufacturers, distributors and reps belonging to an association that’s guided by a strong vision, mission and set of strategic objectives—and a Board of Directors that represents us all.
Belonging to NAMM means that you believe in the importance of music education. Your Membership funds and supports music brain research and helps influence policy makers when decisions are made to cut or keep music programs in our schools. Public opinion on the value of the arts is universally positive and, while budgets are continually challenged, the U.S. music education programs are the envy of the world.
Joining together as an association means that you believe in the power of using a collective voice when addressing elected officials. Indeed, government relations are one of the cornerstones of belonging to any business trade group, and NAMM is looking out for the best interests of our industry in Washington, lobbying against regulations that hurt business while pushing for changes that support us all.
Your NAMM Membership means that you believe in NAMM University. NAMM U has educated, influenced, inspired and motivated thousands of our Member companies, providing them with the tools and resources needed to navigate the challenges and opportunities of the past decade. It’s a gathering point of good ideas shared by the best and brightest in the industry. No other resource exists that is totally focused on the needs of the music instrument manufacturer and retailer. And with the expansion of the H.O.T. Zone, those same services are now available to the pro-audio and lighting sectors.
Your Membership means that you believe in giving back. NAMM and the NAMM Foundation invest several million dollars annually to promote the fun and proven benefits of music making to the general public, in grants to deserving music programs that increase the numbers of music makers and scholarships to young people who will become the next generation of industry leaders.
NAMM dues are $195 per year, which haven’t been raised since 2001, and most of that is a tax-deductible business expense. Many Members tell us that they can save the price of their dues easily by taking advantage of NAMM’s freight, insurance and credit card processing programs. And badges to NAMM’s trade shows are included free with your Membership.
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Spotlight
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MI retailers’ websites are getting more and more attention, some in a constant state of upgrade
Survey Says:Social Media
Continues to Climb
When MMR recently sent out a survey to over 1,000 MI folks about the Internet and social media, several
of the comments we received were along this vein: “You only have one chance to make a first impression.”
Fair enough, but what that used to refer to were those precious few seconds when a newcomer swings your
storefront’s door ajar, whereas now: “Your website is that chance. Today, your site is the first thing a client
sees and experiences.”
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Greg Maglione Jeff Eckroth Jonnel Domilos Ric Overton
Others noted that if that first online impression is less than stellar, there’s no sullen or disappointed face to provide you, the retailer, with an “ah-ha mo-ment.” If your site fails to provide a fa-vorable impression, the potential client is lost before you even knew you had one.
So comparing this survey to previous ones that have been featured in the pages of MMR throughout the past decade-plus, and spending time checking out MI retailer websites, it seems a lot of ground has been gained. Social media, which we first explored in January of 2009, has
been embraced even further than that re-port revealed. But this has its pitfalls, too.
Greg Maglione of Tower Music in Fenton, Missouri has made the obser-vation that maybe decisions about this whole social media stuff should include consultation with his younger staff mem-bers. “I’ve been around a while – I’m 55!” he laughs. “I see Facebook as some-thing [an end user] does when you have too much time on your hands. I’m still of the generation that picks up a telephone, but the younger generation uses [the In-ternet] as a primary communications tool.” So he defers to younger members of his staff, particularly Josh Stieren and Tim Woestendiek.
And here’s a telltale sign of the times: Ric Overton, a one-time Ballwin Piano executive who opened up a piano store in the inopportune year of 2007 in San Diego only to see it fail last year, is now a social media consultant. He merely took his store’s name to mean something else – Piano S(an) D(iego) now has an operation advising industry organizations as Piano Social Director (pianosd.com). “What
a lot of people don’t understand about social media is it can’t go where you’re not sending it,” he says. “Few understand what it does, and if you don’t know how to use it, it’s of absolutely no use.”
WebsitesOur survey shows that pretty much ev-
ery single retailer has a business website, and most are “very happy” or “happy” with it (58.8 percent total). These sites are more sophisticated than ever, with mul-tiple pages to suit specific interests. Gone (mostly) are the primitive dancing note
graphics and thrown-together designs which somebody did for free. Increas-ingly professional help is sought out for a store’s online presence. Many of those happy with their sites have long evolved past the one-page “business card” look with additional components that include social media (Facebook, Twitter), You-Tube, eBay stores, and online instrumen-tal rentals.
However, almost a third of those who responded to the survey are ambivalent about their store’s site, and the vast ma-jority of those who aren’t happy plan to redesign in the coming year. What is re-vealing is that even some who are happy with their site plan to redesign, as the to-tal number of those reach 62.4 percent. Compare these numbers to those who have recently redesigned their site (56.6 percent did it in the last 12 months; 77.4 percent in the last two years), and it ap-pears the old mentality of throwing a site up online and forgetting getting about it is a thing of the past.
“Your website should be updated on a regular basis,” states Overton. “Once
On a scale of 1 to 5, how hap-py are you with it, 5 being very happy?
Websites
0 10 20 30 40 50
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Do you have a website?
Yes: 96.6%
No: 3.4%
When did you last redesign it?
1 year ago: 56.6%
2 years ago: 20.8%
3-5 years ago 14.9%
5 years ago or longer: 7.7%
0 10 20 30 40 50
Will you redesign it this year?
Yes: 62.4
No: 37.6
Does your site have a shopping cart/do you sell new products online?
Yes: 43.8%
No: 56.2%
1: 6.2%
2: 8%
3: 27%
4: 37.6%
5: 21.2%
“ I look at some websites and there’s so much information, I don’t want to look at any of it.”
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a quarter at the very least.” The need for change is less about aesthetics or chang-ing tastes – mixing it up is vitally impor-tant for Search Engine Optimization. “A total redesign may not be necessary, as long as you’re keeping a fresh look and feel to the site.” It needs to be clean and easy to maneuver as well. And above all: Simple to use.
Maglione was in the majority. “We’re working on it right now,” he says. “You have to change it up every few months now it seems.” Although what kind of change is essential is always the tough question. “I look at some websites, and there’s so much information that I don’t want to look at any of it.” Tower Music has opted for a clean front page that al-lows surfers to get the gist of what the store is about immediately, and then there are big buttons that will take the viewer to details of what he or she might be looking for. The categories include instruments and equipment; lesson program; repair; pro audio installation; rentals; and their “Tower Jam!” program.
Understanding that the website is “the new storefront,” he says he likes to approach it as such. Then again, like oth-ers, he wrestles with “TMI” syndrome: “I’ve worry about putting too much in-formation up there, but my employee Tim [Woest] says I’m just being para-noid, and I should put it all out there.”
Paradoxically almost 20 percent of those who have redone their site recently are less than satisfied with the results. But in the 15 or so years during which music instrument stores started to have a pres-ence on the web, many are on their sec-ond, third, or even fourth version in an effort to increase the sophistication and reach their Internet presence. A small percentage, 7.7 percent of those sur-veyed, have stuck with the same website for five years or longer.
Overton was recently hired by Jon-nel Domilos to consult and help with his social media plan. Domilos is one of the many in today’s economy in the process of re-inventing himself. He previously ran a large piano operation in Orange County that did not survive the harsh economy. Now he runs a smaller specialty shop in San Diego called Sorrento Valley Music. There he focuses on violins, violas, cellos, and some pianos. The latter tend toward the European brands not always easily found, including Blüthner, Estonia, and Irmler.
Domilos recently launched his site and is happy with it. It is a simple one-page business card setup, but that is by design. “It’s trial and error, but I decided I didn’t want to give out so much infor-mation,” he explains. “Some sites answer everything, but I want to engage whoever stumbles on it to call me. I feature I’ll just highlight my address and contact infor-mation. That’s it.”
Jeff Eckroth of seven-store chain Eck-roth Music says they’ve updated their site in the last year. Not surprising consider-ing been an early adopter of the Internet but for reasons that might not be so obvi-ous: “It has allowed us, as a company, to be close to others on the team and feel like partners,” he says of his stores spread out under the big blue sky states of North Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota. “I think our team is closer despite there be-ing 1,200 miles between some of them then those of another organization who work in the same building.” So Eckroth has been connected live online for 20 years now.
Geography has also been a motivat-ing force in having a sophisticated, clean site capable of online rentals and even getting gift cards, among other features. “We view our electronic communica-tions as an extension of us,” he says. “Our website is a tool, but not the relationship itself. We first lay the groundwork of a personal relationship, and then make our website so that if we’re not available late at night or if a customer simply prefers to use it as a way of doing business, then he or she can. Our website is a constantly morphing tool.”
Eckroth says one of the reasons he’s pleased with the Eckroth.com site is that it’s a priority with the organization’s leadership. “We’ve got a great leadership team,” he says. “And I believe our online rental and repair portal, and the ability to allow our customers to make payments through the site, is highly utilized be-cause of their good work on it.”
Having an eBay component as part of your website has long been embraced by many as a surefire way to find an enthu-siastic customer for that obscure Ireland concertina beyond the neighborhood, or get top-dollar for that 1964 Fender Jazz P-Bass with just some belt buckle scratch-es on it. But selling new products online – in essence competing with the big chains and mail order houses and Amazon.com – has been more daunting. Yet there’s a
Social Media0 10 20 30 40 50
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Yes: 80.6%
No: 19.4%
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Yes: 42.6%
No: 57.4%
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Yes: 17.9%
No: 82.1%
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Almost every day: 37.8%
Several times a week: 21.9%
At least once a week: 21.9%
Rarely/Not Enough: 18.4%
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2 (A little): 24.9%
3: (Some): 25.8%
4: (Important) 12.4%
5: (Very important): 6.7%
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If yes, how valuable is Twitter to your bottom line?
1 (Not at all): 45.9%
2 (A little): 27.4%
3: (Some): 19.7%
4: (Important) 4.5%
5: (Very important): 2.5%
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Every guitar shop in the country wants that rock star in the store. Wild West Guitars in Riverside, California actually has one, and he’s not there to try to get free gear. He’s there to help make purchases, do some marketing, and isn’t above say-ing, “May I help you?” to that customer who walks in the door.
He’s Warrant co-founder and guitarist Erik Turner, and when he’s not recording or touring with the band, he’s found working at his neighborhood music store. The store itself
is a high-end boutique operation located in Riverside, Calif., that has an impressive website and is deep into social media.
MMR: So how did Erik Turner come to work part time at a music instrument store?
Erik Turner: Warrant played here. Wild West Gui-tars shares a big building with the Voo Doo Lounge, a private
membership club. I met the owner Mark Herbert and we hit it off.
MMR: What appealed to you about the store?ET: I’m a high-end gear freak and that’s who this store is
for. We just try and stock the store with the most badass gear on the planet. It’s a fun place to work. The people are all great.
MMR: What’s your role?ET: I do a little bit of everything. I help with purchasing.
I help with selling. I help with the eBay aspect of the store. I love to work on custom guitar orders – spec them out, and then watch them come in six months later … I like to just find wonderful homes for wonderful guitars. We’re like an adop-tion agency! [laughs]
MMR: What was it like going to music stores when you were a kid?
ET: I grew up in Orange County, and I just went to the store I could ride my bike to! For me it was Jim’s Mu-sic. That’s where I bought my first half stack. Then at 19 I moved to L.A. and formed Warrant. It’s the only band I’ve ever been in. But there I bought used guitars … I still have a ’64 Fender Jaguar I bought for $25! It was a different world back then.
MMR: Compare that to Wild West Guitars.ET: Well this is not an ordinary shop. It’s like working in
somebody’s badass home. It’s not like any music store I’ve
Q&A with Warrant GuitaristWild West Guitars’ Erik Turner
“Manufacturers and suppliers,
which have largely embraced Twitter,
will be disappointed to learn how few retailers are even following them: apparently only 17.9 percent.”
sharp up tick is in the number of retailers selling new products online, though few who aren’t doing so today plan to next year, suggesting saturation.
Eckroth has a shopping cart though it’s only been up for 18 months. “I fought it for a long time,” he confesses. “If you’re not careful, it can be turn into just hav-ing transactions. And I hate transac-tions. I want relationships. A transaction is based on price and does nothing for a young musician. But trust, communica-tion, shared enthusiasm – that’s what inspires music making. A website can be part of that.” He stresses that they “aren’t finishing for business in Alabama or some other state far away.”
Finally, using e-mail for marketing purposes continues to usurp the Yellow Pages ads of yesteryear, though it seems rather than configuring a system based from their website, more are paying for
an outside service like iContact or Con-stant Contact. “Sending emails using constant contact is the best, cheapest advertising” was a comment made fre-quently by survey participants.
FacebookYou don’t to need read it here to know
that trends are moving at warp speeds, but its interesting that the last time MMR delved into this topic – a mere 20 some-thing months ago – MySpace was the belle of the ball. In 2006 it was the most popular social networking site. By 2008 it most certainly wasn’t. In February it was put up for sale.
A whopping 80 percent of MI retailers are on Facebook today and many are us-ing the social media site to keep in touch with their customers and associates in the business. Many are using it to promote special sales or deals. As one surveyed
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pointed out, statistics show that 65 per-cent of those on Facebook buy products which are marketed to them on the site. That is as undeniably powerful as it is al-luring.
As almost 40 percent of retailers are on Facebook almost every day, it makes one wonder what we were doing with all that free time before the social network site was launched just a few years ago… but despite the embrace of Facebook, am-bivalence about what it actually means towards putting additional cash into the register remains high. Just over 30 per-cent say Facebook doesn’t influence their bottom line at all, with another 24 per-cent saying it does just a little. Not quite 20 percent think time spent on Facebook plays a significant roll in their sales and profits.
The comments about how important social media is fell into three categories.
There were a lot of “it’s the best way to quickly disseminate information about the company and products” and “an-other tool to market to a wider audience” type comments. More than a handful said it was better than emailing custom-ers about deals and special events.
Skepticism abounds: There were also plenty of “it’s a bunch of people whining about their terrible lives” comments.
The third most frequent sentiment was the many who seemed to have just jumped on the Facebook bandwagon, with quite a few “ just started a few months ago” and “not important yet but, we think it will be” comments peppered throughout the survey data.
Domilos is also one not necessarily see-ing a direct connection between having a Facebook presence and the bottom line. “More than anything, it’s about PR,” he says. “That is what I’m trying to accom-
plish with social networking.” But he too points out that now social networking can be a key to earning that higher SEO. “By using social network, you get on top of the search list, and I’ve seen situations where if you use it, and are good with your word-ing, you can bury sites that have been out there for four, five, six years.”
Website columnist Nick Usborn made that exact point in a recent blog. He points out that within a short period of time, social media has transformed the way people use the Web. “Put simply, it’s where hundreds of millions of people prefer to spend their time,” he writes. But more importantly he says that it used to be that Google gave websites and their pages a higher ranking whenever there was a relevant inbound link from another reputable site. “Backlinks are no longer the way in which search engines deter-mine the quality of a site or its pages.
Wild West Guitars’ Erik Turner
ever seen. All the offices are high end. It’s in the warehouse district, and there’s different rooms featuring different gear. The Voo Doo Lounge looks like a million bucks.
MMR: What do you like about working there?ET: Everybody who works here is real cool. Also, I’ll
make friends playing in places who find out about the store that way. And I’ll make friends with customers who then find out about Warrant.
MMR: The store does a lot of social networking …
ET: Yes. We have Facebook and Twit-ter. As I’ve learned from Warrant, social media is now just an important fact of life. It’s a way to connect with customers and fans.
MMR: Interesting that you say that – in a recent survey of music instrument stores, there were many comments along the way that Twitter seemed to be mostly fans to follow stars and celebrities. But Wild West tweets a lot … how is that working out?
ET: When we get a beautiful guitar, it’s great to put it out there. Like we just got this Suhr Modern Black Limba with this beautiful honey burst finish … it’s like a work of art … so we get it in, I get it photographed, put it in eBay, and then hit a few buttons and it’s out on Facebook and Twitter. All in short time. Twitter is a part of that as sometimes some-
body sees it and says I have to have that guitar right away.
MMR: Wild West’s YouTube channel has a lot on it … ET: One of our customers films TV commercials for a
living, and we worked out a deal where he filmed about 50 HD videos guitar videos. People can go on and see and hear the instruments, hear different riffs on it. It’s an important part of the overall strategy.
MMR: What other marketing does the shop do?
ET: We have free clinics that can bring in about 200 people. Suhr artists, PRS art-ists. We’ve been the largest PRS Private Stock dealer for the last two years. We’re proud of that, and we’re proud of our really large selection.
We do the Fender Road Show every year where they bring in a couple of their master builders, and our customers are big fans of that. That’s all part of the old-school market-ing.
MMR: Any other advantages of being at Wild West?ET: Oh, yeah. I try things out all the time. There are a
couple of amps I used on the latest Warrant album, Rocka-holic, that I wouldn’t have even known about if I wasn’t here. There’s a Splawn amp that’s on at least a third of the record. I also used something by Shadow Amplification, which is a new company we’re working with. It’s nice discovering new amps and gear that ends up on a new album!
“Social media is now just an important fact of life.”
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They now look at social signals. If a page is ‘liked’ enough on Facebook, or a link to that page is retweeted enough on Twit-ter, Google [and Bing and Yahoo] will recognize it” and thus it gains that all-important a higher ranking.
“I find many people are simply sign-ing up for a Facebook account and that’s it,” Overton observes. “You have to be inviting friends from your community, people who are your ideal customers.” He believes that working on it at least one day a week is the minimum amount that should be done, and that time should be spent posting information that is valu-able to the “friend” base. “There are easy ways to invite new friends, but then you have to give them a reason to want to come into your store. Telling them that you are at the grocery store or showing pictures of what you had for dinner last night are not reasons.”
TwitterThe number of retailers using Twit-
ter is increasing, though it’s not at the 50 percent mark yet. Ambivalence about it is higher, with the vast majority who isn’t already on it having no plans to do so. As to what real economic value using the Twitter is, nearly 50 percent say not at all. Tellingly, only 2.5 percent think it contributes to the ringing of the cash register.
Manufacturers and suppliers, which have largely embraced Twitter, will be
disappointed to learn how few retailers are even following them: apparently only 17.9 percent.
“Twitter is fun and can be a valuable tool for some people,” Overton says. “But like Facebook and other sites – the post has to be interesting enough to get people through the door. Make people laugh and give them a reason to come see you. All social media has its place but only if it’s used as a tool.”
Eckroth says they’ve not yet dived into social media, but it’s coming. “We’re constantly watching and trying to figure out how to use it successfully,” he says. “The worse thing we can do is throw ourselves out there and not be geared up to support it.” He notes cor-rectly that many retailers start down paths like this with the best intentions but don’t follow through, which can often lead to more damage than good. But he admits to inevitability of it: “It’s something that is important to our cus-tomers, so there’s no doubt that we’ll be doing it in the near future.”
Another unique challenge for their seven-store operation spread out over three very different states is that each individual outlet seems to him to need their own account. “Each store is a al-lowed to develop its own personality, and whatever we do – website, Face-book, Twitter, we have to take that into account.” Somebody who shops at the Minnesota store is likely to have a dis-
Those retailers who made the new year’s resolution of jumping on the Facebook bus, but just got around to doing it recently probably won’t be comforted by the fact that the delay has theoretically cost them exposure to six mil-lion Americans.
See, that’s how many quit the social media site in just one month: In April, there were 155 million active users in this country; in May, a mere 149 million.
Well, sure, total planet-wise numbers grew at half its usual rate in May: 1.7 percent. But most of the growth is coming from outside this country. According to Inside Facebook, a re-search firm that blogs about the social media site, not only the U.S., but also Canada, the U.K., and even Russia all saw recent declines.
As Farhad Manjoo wrote about this for Slate.com in his June 14th article ‘Has Facebook Peaked?’ “This sounds bad for the giant social network… You might even say
it sounds terrible.” Of course for years there have been detractors, and the inevitable comparison to MySpace. “MySpace was also once poised to rule the world. Could Facebook, too, prove to be a fad?”
He argues not so fast, and cites the fact that Facebook is not being threatened by the growth of some popular up-
start. Also, it has all the folks it can take leaving only, “the few lonely die-hards who swear they’ll never joint the site” and those who just don’t have the free time to… you know, waste time on it.
It’ll be interesting if there’s ever a point – 10 years? Five? Next Tuesday? – when we’ll look back and laugh and wonder what it was all about. As more then one com-mented from the survey, somewhat ominously, “Facebook is the current fashion.”
Yet… one of those remaining 149 million Americans would almost certainly “like” your posting of that cool snare drum you just got in.
Facebook: Today, Sure – but Tomorrow?
“A transaction is based on price and does nothing for a young musician. But trust, communication, shared enthusiasm – that’s what inspires music making. A website can be part of that.”
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similar worldview and have different needs than the person who shops at the Bozeman, Montana store.
To the “bottom line” question, Maglione takes a big-picture approach. “If you look at who I’m competing with, it’s not really other music stores. I’m com-peting with video games, the time poten-tial customers spend on Facebook, and all the other things that fill up kids’ days now. But I’m thinking if you can put in a thought without irritating them, I think that can work. But I’m open to see what the big deal is.”
Domilos is much more aggressive with the social networking aspect of his site than the site itself, which is being handled by Overton. It’s tethered to the site and he’s especially pleased with how that is going. “You put a website out there and normal expectations is that it takes eight months to a year for people to no-tice. With social networking [primarily FB for now], I started seeing activity after just three or four months.”
That he’s chosen an outside consul-tant to run this aspect of his business is telling. “Like anything else, I can’t do everything,” he says. “I’m literally a two-man operation here, and I found trying to handling the social media as-pect to take up too much of my time.” He says the goal is to post something at least twice a week, if not every other day.
Could any of this be the next MySpace? In the survey done in 2009, dealers were pointing to specific ex-changes on the site that lead to someone coming in from quite a distance for a sale. Today MySpace seems to have fall-en off the flat earth that our technologi-cally driven times seem to be. While one can still find those blue MySpace logos on MI retailer websites, they seem merely to be a holdover, and it certainly isn’t on the tongues of anyone who is diving into social media, currently.
Maglione notes that really anything we’re using today could quickly go that way. “Google could be MySpace tomorrow,” he says. “How much cre-dence do you want to put into some-thing that, for all we know, could be quickly obsolete?”
To the hundreds of MI retailers who responded to the survey, that is on the mind of at least few, though the vast majority are trying to figure out how to make it all work best for their business.
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Wholesaler GuideE-mail: [email protected] site: www.majormusicsupply.comWeb site: www.revivalacoustics.comMike Mulqueen, sls. mgr.Categories: S&F, ETH, PRC, ACCPrincipal Brands: Instruments: Revival Acoustic Guitars, Revival Mandolins, Revival Resonators, Vivace Stringed Instru-ments, Makai Uke Co., Adagio Violins, Ve-rano Classical Guitars, Armor Cases, MMS World Instruments, WB Percussion.
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(415) 671-4785 (888) 552-5465 Fax: (510) 471-6652 Web site: www.themusiclink.net E-mail: [email protected] Categories: PS/R, S&F, ETH, ACC, BI, PRC, P/KB Principal Brands: Recording King banjos, resonator guitars and acoustic guitars; VHT all-tube boutique amplifiers; The Loar archtop acoustic guitars & mandolins; AXL guitars & amplifiers, accessories & cables; Guardian bags & cases; Johnson acoustic & electric guitars, amplifiers, resonators, mandolins, ukuleles; Palatino violin-family
instruments & accessories; Palatino band instruments; Palatino pianos; Lucida classical & traditional mariachi guitars; Antonio Hermosa classical guitars; Koloa professional ukuleles; Dell’Arte gypsy jazz acoustic guitars; Baltimore guitars; Antonius violin-family instruments; CODA drums & percussion; Savannah folk instruments.
The Music People! Inc.717 E Artesia Blvd.Carson, CA 90746(310) 515-9557Fax: (310) 515-9183E-mail: [email protected] site: www.musicpeopleinc.com or www.tmppro.com Jim Hennessey, pres.Categories: PS/R, ACC, P/KBPrincipal Brands: Microphones: AKG, Astatic, Audio Spectrum, Audio-Technica, Audix, Beyerdynamic, Blue Microphones, CAD/Equitek, CAJ Countryman, Earth-works, Electro-Voice, Heil, Sennheiser, Shure, Sony, Telex, Wireless - Audio-Tech-nica, Beyer Dynamic, Electro-Voice, Nady, Samson, Shure, Sony, Telex. Headphones: AKG, Audio-Technica, Sennheiser, Shure. Sound Systems: Atlas Sound, Bose, Community Sound, Electro-Voice, Fostex, Gemini, JBL, QSC, Tannoy, TOA, Williams Sound, Yamaha. Cables, Interfaces & Connectors: Hot Wires, Pro Co. DJ/Lighting: Gemini, Numark. Mixers: Alesis, Allen and Heath, Bi-Amp, Bogen, Midas, Soundcraft, Toa, Yamaha. DSP’s/EQ’s/Processors: Ashly, Alesis, Bi-Amp, dbx, Klark Teknik, Lexicon, Rane, Symetrix, Toa. Amplifiers: Ashly, Bi-Amp, Bogen, Crest Audio, Crown, Lab Gruppen, Sam-son, QSC, Toa. Accessories - On-Stage Stands, On-Stage Gear, DrumFire, AKG, Atlas, Raxxess, VERSA-TEK, Hennessey Guitar Parts. Drum Sticks: On-Stage Sticks.
Saga Musical Instruments P.O. Box 2841137 Utah Ave.South San Francisco, CA 94080(650) 588-5558(800) BUY-SAGA (289-7242)Fax: (650) 871-7490Web site: www.sagamusic.comE-mail: [email protected] Keldsen, pres.Categories: S&F, ACC, ETH, folk insts., parts.Principal Brands: Cremona and Anton Breton Bowed Instruments; Anton Breton and J. La Salle bows; Blueridge, Durango, and Trinity College Guitars; Gitane and Cigano Gypsy Jazz Guitars; Regal Wood and Metal Body Resonator Guitars; J. Na-varro and Valencia Classical Guitars; Gold Star, Rover, and Saga Banjos; Kentucky and Rover Mandolins; Trinity College Celtic Mandolins, Mandolas, Octave Mandolins and Bouzoukis; Mahalo and Hamano Ukule-les; Gladiator Electric Guitars; Saga Electric
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Cordoba Music Group 1455 19th St.Santa Monica, CA 90404(310) 586-1180Fax: (310) 586-1181E-mail: [email protected] site: www.cordobamusicgroup.comCategories: Jose Ramirez, Cordoba, Saku-rai-Kohno, Savarez, HumiCase, AquillaPrincipal Brands: S & F
Vitali Import Company, Inc. 13020 Whittier Blvd.Whittier, CA 90602-3045(562) 698-6508(800) 325-8154Fax: (562) 698-2429E-mail: [email protected] Site: www.vitaliimport.comLauretta Craven, pres.Categories: S&F, ETH, ACC, PMPrincipal Brands: Aubert Bridges, Corelli, Jargar, D’Addario, Kun Shoulder Rests, La Bella, Millant rosin, Pirastro, Prim, Savarez, Super-Sensitive, Thomastik.
CONNECTICUT KMC MUSIC, INC.55 Griffin Road SouthBloomfield, CT 06002-9005(860) 509-8888Sales: (877) 526-2668Fax: (877) 526-2632E-mail: [email protected] sites: www.kmcmusic.com (portal to KMC brands), www.kmconline.com (order-ing), http://kdn.kamanmusic.com (dealer support materials), http://www.imagegal-lery.kmcmusic.com (image gallery)Ed Miller, PresidentLarry Dunn, Sr. VP Finance, CFOJay Wanamaker, Sr. VP Sales and Global PercussionRobert E. Lee, VP SalesJoe Vasco, VP and GM Latin PercussionChuck Bashaw, VP Purchasing and Int’l Logistics Frank Untermyer, VP and GM Ovation/Hamer/Guild/Gretsch DrumsCategories: PS/R, S&F, ETH, ACC, BI, PRC, PM, P/KBPrincipal Brands: Ovation, Adamas, Taka-mine, Hamer, Applause, Jasmine, Latin Percussion, Gretsch Drums, Sabian Cym-bals, Toca Percussion, Gibraltar Hardware, CB Drums and Educational Percussion, Genz Benz, Fender, Groove Tubes, Shadow
Electronics, Full Contact Hardware, Vic Firth Educational Percussion, Becker, Academy, Stentor, Hercules Stands, Seiko, Matrix, Lee Oskar, Levy’s Leathers, Gretsch Guitar Accessories, Bigsby Bridges, Guild Guitar Accessories, TranzAmp, Kessler, Levy’s Leathers, Protection Racket, Line 6, Boss Pedals.
Magnamusic Distributors Inc. 74 Amenia Union Rd. P.O. Box 338 Sharon, CT 06069-0338 (860) 364-5431 Fax: (860) 364-5168 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.magnamusic.com Categories: ACC, PM, recorders & historical woodwindsPrincipal Brands: Recorders: Aura, Coolsma, Dolmetsch, Zen-On. Publishers: Anfor, As-colta, Avondale, Barandol, Broken Consort, Cheap Trills, Consort Music, Dolce Edition, Dolmetsch Library, Dovehouse, Early Music Library, Edition Baroque, Hawthorne, Harp-sichord & Fortepiano Magazine, Hug, Jolly Robin Press, London Pro Musica, L’Oiseau Lyre, Loux, Magnamusic, Marlborough, Mayfair, Moeck, Muses Gardin, Musica Bu-dapest, Pan, Peacock Press, Muro, Pelican, Polyphonic Publications, Recorder Maga-zine, Schott, Sweet Pipes, Tomus.
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The Music People! Inc. / TMP Pro Distribution 154 Woodlawn Rd. Suite C Berlin, CT 06037(800) 289-8889Fax: (860) 828-1353E-mail: [email protected] site: www.musicpeopleinc.com or www.tmppro.com Jim Hennessey, pres.Categories: PS/R, ACC, P/KBPrincipal Brands: Microphones: AKG, Astatic, Audio Spectrum, Audio-Technica, Audix, Beyerdynamic, Blue Microphones, CAD/Equitek, CAJ Countryman, Earth-works, Electro-Voice, Heil, Sennheiser, Shure, Sony, Telex, Wireless - Audio-Tech-nica, Beyer Dynamic, Electro-Voice, Nady, Samson, Shure, Sony, Telex. Headphones: AKG, Audio-Technica, Sennheiser, Shure. Sound Systems: Atlas Sound, Bose, Community Sound, Electro-Voice, Fostex, Gemini, JBL, QSC, Tannoy, TOA, Williams Sound, Yamaha. Cables, Interfaces & Con-nectors: Hot Wires, Pro Co. DJ/Lighting: Gemini, Numark. Mixers: Alesis, Allen and Heath, Bi-Amp, Bogen, Midas, Soundcraft, Toa, Yamaha. DSP’s/EQ’s/Processors: Ashly, Alesis, Bi-Amp, dbx, Klark Teknik, Lexicon, Rane, Symetrix, Toa. Amplifiers: Ashly, Bi-Amp, Bogen, Crest Audio, Crown, Lab Gruppen, Samson, QSC, Toa. Acces-
sories - On-Stage Stands, On-Stage Gear, DrumFire, AKG, Atlas, Raxxess, VERSA-TEK, Hennessey Guitar Parts. Drum Sticks: On-Stage Sticks.
On-Stage Stands154 Woodlawn Rd. Suite C Berlin, CT 06037(800) 289-8889Fax: (860) 828-1353Web site: www.onstagestands.comJim Hennessey, pres.Categories: ACCPrincipal Brands: On-Stage Stands: microphone, guitar, keyboard, speaker, amp, lighting, rack, karaoke, orchestra and sheet music stands. Accessories: micro-phone accessories, mic clips, pop-filters, windscreens, Posi Lok locking microphone booms, bags, cases, etc; On-Stage Gear: Guitar Straps, pick holders, keyboard dust covers, sustain pedals; DrumFire drum hardware, drum bags, snare wire replace-ments. Trademarks: Hex-Base (mic stands and studio booms), Flip-It (guitar stands), Hennessey (Guitar Parts).
P&D Wholesale Music Supply 1660 Barnum Ave.Stratford, CT 06614(800) 823-5188Fax: (203) 377-2576
Al D’AddarioJohn Rampino, natl. sls.Categories: PRC, ACCPrincipal Brands: Drums & percussion: Basik Drums, R.C. International Acrylic Drums, Tree Works, Swingtime Percussion. Acc. and Drum Hardware: Aquarian, Dan-Mar U.S.A, Cannon, Rhythm Tech, Grover, Trophy, Duplex, Noble & Cooley, Zero-Rings, Stick Handler, TPS, Neary Drum Torque, Lug Lock, Pro-Mark, Remo, Muffl’s & Practice Pads, H.Q. Percussion, Real Feel, Shine On, Trick, Groove Juice, Blitz, Buckaroo, Ace, Latin Groove, Nomad, Kaces, SKB, Drum Heads, Attack, Remo, Drumsticks, Mallets, Brushes; Vic Firth, Pro-Mark, Regal Tip Hotsticks, Mike Balter, Vater, Innovative Percussion Inc., Swingtime Percussion, Slug Accesso-ries; Cymbals: Sabian Solar, Imported Brass; Latin American Products: Bongos, Congas, Timbales, Cowbells, Maracas, Fort Bryan, Kaces, Perfekktion Bags, Qwik Time.
Tamarkin Company, Inc. 177 Rowley St., #2 Winsted, CT 06098 (800) 521- 5464 Fax: (860) 379- 4834 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: tamarkincompany.net John Macbeth; pres. Tom Daley: whse. Mgr.
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Wholesaler GuidePrincipal Brands: Hardshell Cases, Chip-board Cases, Gig Bags, Grand Prix Cases, Edge Microphones,Bedford Stringed Instruments, Blitz, Hamilton, Kyser, Huang, Flinthill, Fort Bryan, Grover, Intelli, Intellitouch,Qwik Tune, Concerto Manu-script, String Swing, Sound Barrier, SKB, RDM, Topp Pro, TKL, Jensen, JJTubes, Pignose, Latch Lake, Mighty Mite, Palmer, Pocket Rockit Amp, Cherub,Luthier Sup-plies
FLORIDAFBT - U.S.A.P.O. Box 353516Palm Coast, FL. 32135(800) 333-9383Fax: (386) 437-7990E-mail: [email protected] site: www.fbtusa.netTom Concorde, V.P.Carol Concorde, cust. svc. mgr.Dennis Marturano, tech. spt. mgr.Categories: PS/RPrincipal Brands: FBT Professional Audio, QUBE Audio, Kempton Audio, FBT “Cicog-nani” Guitar & Bass Guitar AmpsEquipment: FBT Maxx, Hi Maxx, Pro Maxx, EVO MAXX, Vertus, Verve, Jolly, Formula Series Mixers, Symbol Power Amps, Amico portable sound systems, FBT Modus pow-ered and passive line arrays, MITUS Series Powered & Passive Line Arrays & Speaker Systems, Qube Audio powered & passive line arrays and speakers, Qube amplifica-tion, Kempton GT, PW Speakers, Kempton KA series amps, Kempton mixers.
German American Trading Co. Inc.P.O. Box 17789Tampa, FL 33682(813) 961-8405Fax: (813) 961-8514E-mail: [email protected] Neidhardt, pres.Categories: S&F, ACC, BI, P/KBPrincipal Brands: August Foerster, Bohe-mia, Discacciati, Silvetta, Musima, Wilhelm Eberle, Anton Schneider, Lenzner, Ratz & Pschera, Goldbrokat, Rubner, Adler, Meinel, Schlegel, Otto Jos. Klier, Fisoma, Eberhard Meinel.
Mid-East Mfg., Inc. 7694 Progress Cir.West Melbourne, FL 32904(321) 724-1477Fax: (321) 952-1080E-mail: [email protected] Kundrat, pres.
Tropical Music Export Enterprises, Inc.6850 S.W. 81st TerraceMiami, FL 33143(305) 740-7454Fax: (305) 740-7456E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: www.tropicalmusic.comPeter Marrero, U.S. sls. mgr.Categories: PS/R, S&F, ACC, PRC, lighting. Branches in Chile, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Trinidad, Guatemala.Principal U.S. Brands: American Drum Works, Biscayne, H. Hoffer, Juggs, Mano Percussion, MAS, Palmer, Palmer Espana, Pro-Lok, Snug Fit, Starforce, Topp Pro Mu-sic Gear, Windfield, Afrosound Percussion, Vizcaya Guitars, Palmer Marquis.
WD Music Products, Inc. 17570 North Tamiami Trail Suite 1
North Fort Myers, FL 33903(800) 449-9348 Fax: (239) 543-5874E-mail: [email protected] site: www.wdmusic.com, www.wdbiz.comWendy Davis, pres.Larry Davis, v.p.Categories: S&F, ACC, GFPrincipal Brands: Kent Armstrong Pickups, Kluson, L.R. Baggs, TonePros, TKL, WD, WD Pickguards, CTS, Switchcraft, Oak, CRL, Mallory, Sprague, Graph Tech, Grover, Bigsby, Fender, Facelifts, Genuine Floyd Rose, Kahler, Full Contact Hardware, Big
Cremona bowed instruments have set the pacefor the vibrant student and rental markets for over30 years. Strict adherence to international sizingrequirements, domestic educational set-up standardsand continuous quality improvement have madeCremona Violins, Violas, Basses and Cellos provensales leaders.
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Wholesaler GuideBends, Sperzel, Gotoh, Hipshot, EVH, Vi-bramate, Wilkinson, Cooperstand, Gibson, Electroswitch, Bourns, RS Guitarworks.
ILLINOIS Advantage Wholesale3319 Ridge Ave.Arlington Heights, IL 60004(800) MUSICAL (687-4225) (847) 398-5480Fax: (847) 398-5441E-mail: [email protected] site: www.advantagewholesale.com Categories: All categories musical merchandisePrincipal Brands: California, Eleca, Oscar Schmidt, Silvertone, Kansas Guitars, S101, Dunlop, Dean Markley, Audio-Technica, Advantage, LP, Martin, Morley, Kyser, D’Addario, Pyle Pro, Rico, Amati, Wittner, MXR, Pyramid, Rhino, Ace, Roy Benson, Pignose, Jim Dandy, Pro-Co, Qwik Tune, At-tack Heads, Pro-Mark, Basix, Royce, Stick Handler, NRG, TKL, Lauren, Gorilla, LM Straps, Mighty Mite, Ultra, D-Tech, Herco, Tastee-Reeds, MTS, Leeder, Trick, Area 51, Hal Leonard, Alfred Publishing and many other instruments and accessories.
DANSR 818 W. Evergreen AvenueChicago, IL 60642888-707-4455Fax: 312.475.0958 E-mail: [email protected] Skinner - PresidentCategories: B&O, ACCPrincipal Brands: Vandoren, Denis Wick, Hamilton Stands
Harris-Teller, Inc. 7400 S. Mason Ave.Chicago, IL 60638800-252-4004Fax: (888) 983 5537E-mail: [email protected] site: www.harristeller.comJon Harris, pres.Categories: Gen’l. music mdse. and printed products.
PJLA Music Sales & MarketingPO Box 550Barrington, IL, 60011Peter J. La Placa(847)-382-3210(877)-541-4017Fax: (847)-382-4626 E-mail: [email protected] site: www.pjlamusic.comCategories: BIPrincipal Brands: Phaeton, Sax Dakota, F.E. Olds & Sons, Calzone/Anvil Cases, Gard USA Gig & Travel Bags, TAKT Conductor Batons, Pomarico Woodwind Mouthpieces.
Westheimer Corp. 3451 W. Commercial Ave.Northbrook, IL 60062(847) 498-9850Fax: (847) 498-5370E-mail: [email protected] site: www.westheimercorp.comCategories: S&F, ACC, BI, PRCPrincipal Brands: Basix, Cort, Mighty Mite, Royce, Kansas, BSX, Harmony, Emperor.
INDIANAAmerican Way Marketing LLC P.O. Box 1681Elkhart, IN S/B 46515(574) 295-6633(800) 331-0664Fax: (574) 293-9888E-mail: [email protected] Musselman, pres.Jim Klingler, v.p.Categories: ACC, BIPrincipal Brands: Superslick, Partner, Faxx (proprietary); Al Cass, Alisyn, Antigua Stands, Bach, Bari, Berp, BG France, Blue Juice, Bobcat, Bo-Pep, Chop Saver, Claude Lakey, Denis Wick, Emerald, Fibracell, Hamilton, Harmon, Hetman, Hodge, Jones Reeds, Jo-Ral, Kratt, Mahasset stands, MARCA, Meyer, Micro, Mighty Bright, MTS, Neotech, Otto Link, Pack A Stand, Peter Ponzol, ProHands, Red Label, Reka, Rovner, Ruryon, Selmer, Super Sensitive Strings,Tom Crown, Trophy, Valentino, Van-doren, Warburton, and Yamaha.
B & S A division of American Way Marketing LLCP.O. Box 1681Elkhart, IN 46515(574) 295-7466(866) 594-8664Fax: (574) 293-9888John Musselman, pres.Categories: BI, ACC
Black Mountain Musical Enterprises, Inc. 8060 Woodland Dr.Indianapolis, IN 46278(317) 899-1524(866) 885-0881Fax (317) 899-3837E-mail: [email protected] site: www.blackmountainmusical.comCategories: PS/R, S&F, ACC, PRC, P/KBProprietary Brands: Spencer Instruments, , Terrapin Bags, Jailhouse Blues.Principal Brands: Spencer Instruments, Asheville Instruments, Onstage Stands, Danelectro, Perfektion, Dean Markley, Eleca, Korg, Intellitouch, Wittner, Matrix, Seiko, Qwik Tune, Sabine, Signal Flex, Ping, WD Products, Wedgie, Dunlop, Fred Kelly, Alaska Pick, Picks by the Pound, Golden-gate, National, Martin, D’Addario, Fender, Black Diamond, Ernie Ball, Curt Mangan, Kyser, Shubb, Paige, Feel No Fret, Blitz, Clayton, Steven Steel, Eddie Bell, Chop-saver, String Swing, LM Straps, Fort Bryan, Mel Bay, Cassette & Video, Audio Technica, CAD, Hohner, Casio, General Percussion, Groove Juice, Zildjian, Promark, Rhythm Tech, TKO Percussion, Mighty Mite, Perfor-mance Plus, Hot Wires, Mighty Brite, Anton Breton, Super Sensitive, Hamilton, Players, Rico, Van Doren, Grover, Trophy, Flinthill, Finger Ease, Remo, Onstage Sticks, Stage
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Wholesaler GuideStrong Stands, Snark, Structures Cables, Grover Allman Picks, California Guitars, California Amps .
Conn-Selmer, Inc. P.O. Box 310Elkhart, IN 46515(574) 522-1675Fax (574) 522-0034Web site: www.conn-selmer.comJohn Stoner, pres.Categories: BI, PRC, ACC, S&FPrincipal Brands: Bach, Selmer (USA), C.G. Conn, Leblanc, King, Selmer (Paris), Holton, Armstrong, Martin, Yanagisawa, Vito, Lewis, Emerson, Noblet, Benge, Artley woodwinds and brasswinds. Glaesel, Sherl & Roth, and Wm. Lewis string instruments. Ludwig drums and Musser percussion instruments and accessories. Accessories: Bach, Mega-Tone, CKB, Selmer, C.G. Conn, Bundy, Farkas, Holton, Heim, Leblanc, Yanagisawa, Morales/Backun, E. Rousseau, Primo, Jo-Ral, Ridinour, Vandoren, Legere, Fibracell, Gonzalez, Hemke, LaVox, Mitchell Lurie, Bo-Pep, Kiwi, Gower, Charles Davis, Softone, Harmon, Vacchiano, Tom Crown, Denis Wick, B.E.R.P., Brilhart, Goldentone, Rico, Ridenour, Vinson, Rovner, Kiwi, Olivieri, Gill, Slide-o-Mix, Roy J. Maier, H.W., Al Cass, Hamilton, Manhasset, Petersen, Pack-a-stand, Korg, Trombotine, Glaesel, Lewis, RAO, Scherl & Roth, Thomastik, Jargar, Super-Sensitive, Glasser, Wolf, Resonans, Kun.
Folkcraft Instruments, Inc. 22133 Main StreetP.O. Box 302Woodburn, IN 46797(800) 433-3655Fax: (317) 245-2378E-mail: [email protected] site: www.folkcraft.comCategories: S&F, ACC, PMPrincipal Brands: Folkcraft Appalachian Dulcimers, Legend Hammered Dulcimers, Pathfinder Hammered Dulcimers, Claren-bridge Folk Harps, Psalteries, FolkRoots Ap-palachian dulcimers, Druid Moon Ukuleles, Druid Moon Dulcileles
Grassroots Musical Distributor8250 North 600 WestMcCordsville, IN 46055317-336-4766 888-90-GRASS Fax: (317)-336-4769Email: [email protected] site: www.grassrootsmusical.comPurchase online 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week or callCategories: Accessories, Amps, Bags/ Cases, Band/ Orchestra, Bass, Beginner kits, Clearance items, Custom, Branding, Custom Printing, Drums/ Percussion, Gui-tars, Instructional Books, Videos & Music, Keyboards, Kids instruments, Lifestyle & Apparel, Maintenance Kits, Parts, Pro Au-dio, Stands, World & Traditional Instruments
Principal Brands: Ace BackstageAKG, Alesis, Alice, Allen & Heath, AMK Speakers, Amplivox, Anchor, Apogee, Aroma, Art, Ashly, Astatic, Atlas Soundolier, Audio Spectrum, Audio-Technica, Audix, Auralex, Aviom, Avlex, B USA, Beyerdynamic, BI-AMP, B-Natural, Bogen, BSS, CAD Equitek, Celestion, Chauvet Lighting, Clearcom, Clearsonics, Clock Audio, Community Sound, Corbin, Countryman, Crest Audio, Crown, D’Addario, Danelectro, Darco, DAS Sound Products, dbx Professional, De Rosa, Denon, Drum Fire, Dunlop, Earthworks, EAW Commercial, Electro-Voice, Ernie Ball, EZ Dupe, FBT, Fender Pro Audio, Fostex, Furman, Galaxy Audio, Gator Cases, Gemini, GHS, Glen Burton, Grassroots, Grundorf, Hear Technology, Heil, Hennessey, Herco, HHb, Hosa Technology, Hot Wires, Hun-tington, Inter-M, JBL, JVC, Kazoobie INC, KDM Electronics, Klark Teknik, Korg, Kyser, Lexicon, Listen Technology, LittleLite, LM Straps, Lowell, Mackie, Marantz, Martin, Mel Bay, Midas, Mid-Atlantic, Mi-Pro, Mounts, NADY Systems, Numark, Omnimount, One Systems, On-Stage, On-Stage GEAR, On-Stage Stands, Orange, OWI, PeaveyPeer-less, Phillips, Phonic Ear, Players, Presonus, Pro Co, Production Intercom, QSC, Quam, Qwik Tune/ Qwik Time, Rane, Rapco, Raxxess, RDL, Renkus Heinz, Rico, Rolis, Sabine, Samson, Schaller, Secure Cabinets, Sennheiser, Shure, Sonic Lynx, Sony, Sound Advance, Soundcraft, Soundsphere, String-Swing, SurgeX, Symetrix, TASCAM, TC Electronic, TEAC, Telex, TOA, Travel Sonic, Tunerguard, Turbosound, VersaTek, Watch & Learn, Wedgie, Whirlwind, Williams Sound, Xantech, Yamaha Commercial
KENTUCKYDavitt & Hanser (A Division of Hanser Music Group) 3015 Kustom DriveHebron, KY 41048 Hanser Music Group: (859) 817-7100Orders: (800) 999-5558Fax: (800) 451-4944 E-mail: [email protected] Hanser: Chairman/CEO Robert Imhoff: PresidentBill Xavier: Executive Vice President Sales & MarketingPatrick Stevenson: VP, Product Develop-mentCategories: PS/R, S&F, ACC, BI, PRC, P/KBPrincipal Brands: Woods guitars/mandolins/banjos, Musino violins/cellos/violas, Tour-Grade stands/cases/bags, Powererks Pro Audio, Shure, Elixir Strings, Audio-Technica, Ernie Ball, D’Addario, Martin, Dean Mark-ley, Kyser, Rico, Vandoren, Dunlop, Remo, Pro-Mark, Regal Tip, Vic Firth, Hohner, Lee Oskar, Paiste, Super-Sensitive, Helicore, Pro Arte, Hamilton, Manhasset. Note: B.C. Rich, Kustom Amplification, Michael Kelly and Traben are separate divi-sions of HMG.
Musicorp Louisville Distribution Center 11400 Interchange Dr., Ste. 101Louisville, KY 40229Web site: www.musicorp.com Dan Roberts, v.p., sls. Principal Brands:(Please see South Carolina listing)
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MARYLANDInternational Violin Company, Ltd. 1421 Clarkview Rd., Suite 118Baltimore, MD 21209(410) 832-2525(800) 542-3538Fax: (410) 832-2528E-mail: [email protected] site: www.internationalviolin.comLori S. Kirr, pres.Ken Wise, g.m.Categories: S&F, ACC, repair parts, tone wood, tools, bow hair, booksPrincipal Brands: Karl Hofner, Ernst Hein-rich Roth, Aubert Lutherie, Dorfler, Wittner, Geipel, Strunal, Semmlinger, Engelhardt-Link, Calvert Violins, Pro-Tec, Gottfried Sturm, Hans Royner, Arcadia Violins, P&H Fiberglass bows, Glasser bows, Motrya Gold, Kun, Despiau, Bausch, Aubert, A. Mirecourt, Hill, Playonair, Intellitouch, Soundboni™, Micro Mesh, Herdim, Ibex, Grobet, Hacklinger, Bend-a-Light, Dunlop, Grover Rotomatic Machines, L.R. Baggs, Henry Strobel, Harry Wake. Strings: Super-Sensitive, Dr. Thom-astik, D’Addario, Pirastro, Kaplan, La Bella, Prim, Larsen, Jargar, Corelli, Black Diamond.Score Mktg.P.O. Box 34431Bethesda, MD 20827(301) 765-7788Fax: (301) 765-7790E-Mail: [email protected] IngberCategories: ACC, PRCBrands: Corriciadan Slides, Chopsaver, Wrap-N-Strap, Rick Rock Picks, Lizard
Spit Polishes, Chromatic Watch Co., Drum Stackerz, Bolo Ligatures, Kick Dirk, Facelift Guitar Decals, Mighty Moe Amp Straps
MASSACHUSETTSHarris Musical Products Inc.49 Rose StreetStoughton, MA 02072(781) 341-0776Fax: (781) 341-0778E-mail: [email protected] site: www.harrismusical.comMarc HarrisCategories: S & F, ACC, PRC, BIPrincipal Brands: Picks by the Pound, Sticks by the Pound, US Blues, Buckaroo, Feel no Fret, Famous #351, Narragansett, Inner-soul, Guitarlamp, Timber Tones.
Shoreview Distribution 69 Elm StreetFoxboro, MA 02035781.784.1144Fax: 781.784.4680E-Mail: [email protected] Site: www.shoreviewdistribution.comLuke Furr, PresidentCategories: Professional Audio, Professional Video, Consumer Electronics, Projectors, DJ & Lighting, Video ConferencingPrincipal Brands: Anton Bauer, Audio Ac-cessories, Canon, Comprehensive, Da-Lite, Denon, Echo, FEC, IDX, IK Multimedia, Inter-M, JVC, Mackie, Martin, Miller, Miranda, Monster, Motorola, Optoma, Panasonic, Peerless Mounts, Petrol, Phoenix Audio, Philips, Pioneer, Premier Mounts, Sachtler, Samsung, Sandisk, Sharp, Sonnox, Sony,
Tascam, Tecnec, Toshiba, TV One, VFI, Vinten
MICHIGAN Castiglione Accordion Co. 13300 E. 11 Mile, Suite AWarren, MI 48089-1367(586) 755-6050Fax: (586) 755-6339E-mail: [email protected] site: www.castiglioneaccordions.comJohn Castiglione, pres.Categories: S&F, ETH, ACC, B&O, PM, ac-cordions, concertinas, button boxes, amps, pickups, folk instruments, reed instruments, used accordions, MIDI instruments, wireless MIDI systems, Roland reedless accordions, Roland amps.Principal Brands: Beltuna, Excelsior, Scandalli, Paolo Soprani, Guerrini, Dallape, Bugari, Hohner, Melodjia, Strasser, Karn-tnerland, Castiglione, Stagi Concertinas, Tyrolean, Master MIDI’s, Musictech MIDI’s, Logic MIDI Systems, Polytone Amplifiers, Centaur Amplifiers, Delicia & Halavecek, Ciao Electronics with reedless and reed accordions, Sem Accordions, Orla Key-boards, Orlavox Reedless Accordions, Orla Arrangers, Midivox III Excelsior Accordions, E. Soprani Accordions, Roland FR 5 and FR 7 Virtual Accordions Rolando Reedless Ac-cordions Amps & Keyboards.
LPD Music International 32575 Industrial Dr.Madison Heights, MI 48071(248) 585-9630(800) 527-5292Fax: (248) 585-7360E-mail: [email protected] site: www.lpdmusic.comSonia Vallis, pres.Tom Vallis, v.p.Categories: PS/R, S&F, ETH, ACC, BI, PRC, PM, P/KBPrincipal Brands: American DJ, Audio-Technica, Audix, Blessing, Casio, City Limits Straps, Community, Conquest, Crestwood guitars, Danelectro, Darling Divas Guitars, Dunlop, Electro-Voice, Englehardt, EPM, Vic Firth, Furman Sound, Galaxy Audio, GCI Technologies, Korg Tuners, Grab Bag, Hal Leonard, Hohner, Hosa, Italia Guitars, Josef Bremen Stringed Instruments, Latin Groove percussion, Latin Percussion, L.R. Baggs, Middle Atlantic, Nady, Neotech, Lee Oskar, Oscar Schmidt, Paracho Elite, Pignose, Pro-Co, Pro-Mark, Qwik Tune, Remo, Rhythm Tech, Seiko, Selmer acces-sories, Sennheiser, Shure, SKB, Soundcraft, Sparrow Guitars, Sperzel, String Swing, Switchcraft, Tara Guitars, Tascam, Telex, Thomastik, TKO Percussion, Tube-Tech Stands, Ultimate Support, Windsor band instruments, Yamaha, Zildjian accessories.
M&M Distributing Co. 2465 S. Industrial Hwy.Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1411(800) 98-STRAD (987-8723)
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Wholesaler GuideFax: (800) 99-STRAD (997-8723)E-mail: [email protected] Site: www.MandMdistributing.comHaig Avsharian, pres.Categories: S&F, wholesale distributor of all bowed instruments, cases, strings, and accessoriesPrincipal Brands: Pirastro, Thomastik, Jargar, Super-Sensitive, Sensicore, Larsen, Dominant, Prim, D’Addario, Cushy, American Case Co., Play-on-Air, Carlsson, Heritage, Tourte, Kun, Otto Ernst Fischer, Children’s Music Series, Finkel, Schneider, Hoffmann, H.R. Pfretzschner bows, Stretto Humidifiers, Nilton music stands, John Cheng workshop violins, Evy Lavrent Bows, Toshiba Cases, Overture Strings, Presto Carbon Fiber Bows, Embassy Cases, Plug ‘N Play Electric Violins, Cellos, Amps; Suzuki.
MISSOURIKC Music Supply LLC 1300 QuebecN. Kansas City, MO 64116(816) 781-7312Order Line (toll-free) 1-877-424-9060Fax: (816) 781-7312E-mail: [email protected] Grimm, pres.Categories: S&F, ACC, PRCBrands: Shoal Creek Guitars, Kyser, Her-cules, Shubb, Eleca, Performance Plus, Intellitouch, Qwik Tune, TKL, Intelli, Trophy, Ultra, Seiko, Kay, Applecreek Dulcimers, Grover, Perris, California Guitars/ Amps, Might Brite, and many more.
MMB Music 9051 Watson Road Suite 161St. Louis, MO 63126(314) 531-9635(800) 543-3771Fax: (314) 531-8384 E-mail: [email protected] site: www.mmbmusic.comMichelle Brady, PresidentCategories: PRCPrincipal Brands: Studio 49 Orff Instru-ments, Exclusive US Distributor
St. Louis Music A division of U.S. Band & Orchestra Supplies Inc. 1400 Ferguson Avenue St. Louis, MO 63133 (314) 727-4512 Fax: (314) 727-8929 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.stlouismusic.com Mark Ragin, CEO Categories: B1, S&F, PRC, ACC Principal Brands: Alvarez Guitars, Knilling String Instruments, Austin Guitars, Zonda Reeds, Perfection Pegs, SLM Accessories, Viva, Jade, Alexander Supereal, D’addario, Rico, Vandoren, C.F. Martin, Paiste, Evans, Remo, Vic Firth, ProMark, Dean Markley, Audio Technica, Sennheiser, Zildjian, Korg, Boss, Hohner, Selmer, Yamaha, Manhasset, Thomastic-Infeld, Innovative Percussion,
Francois Louis, Dunlop, Legere, Otto Link, Super-Sensitive, Rovner, Planet Waves, TKL, Cleartone, Denis Wick.
NEW JERSEY Musical Distributors Group 9 Mars CourtUnit C3Boonton, NJ 07005(866) 632-8346Fax: (973) 335-7779Email: Sales@musicaldistributors.comwww.musicaldistributors.comCategories: S&F, Pro Sound, Recording, Acc, Percu, DJ, AmpsBrands: i-Tab, American Recorder,Ampridge Cables, Beat Kangz, Coffin Case, EBS Bass, Encore Guitars, Fernandes Guitars, Fret-King Guitars, Gig-FX Pedals, Hiwatt Amplificant, Kerly Strings, Pacemaker DJ, Olympus Pro-Audio, Vintage Guitars, Laney Amplification.
NEW YORK Creative Stage Lighting Co., Inc. P.O. Box 567149 Rte. 28 N.North Creek, NY 12853(518) 251-3302Fax: (518) 251-2908E-mail: [email protected] site: www.creativestagelighting.comCategories: Lighting Supplier, Rentals, Fix-tures, Lamps, Consoles, Rigging hardware.Principal Brands: Dura-Flex, Entertainment Industry Tape, Cam-Lok, Altman, High End Systems, Osram-Sylvania, GE, ETC, James Thomas Engineering, Suspension Solutions,
Entertainment Power Systems, Rosco, Lee Filters, Clear Com Systems, Northern Case, JB Lighting, Compulite, Wireless Solutions.
D’Andrea Inc.115 Eileen WaySyosset, NY 11791(516) 496-2200Fax: (516) 496-2425E-mail: [email protected] site: www.dandreausa.comFred DiTomasso or Terry DayCategories: S&F, ACCPrincipal Brands: D’Andrea Picks & Music Gear, Snarling Dogs, Kepur Straps, Ice Pix, SpiderCapo, Ace by D’Andrea, KSD (Ken Smith Designs) Basses, D’Andrea Custom Imprint Shop.
Ideal Musical Merchandise Co. 150 W. 22 St., 2nd floorNew York, NY 10011(212) 675-5050Fax: (212) 989-9275E-mail: [email protected] site: www.emmcmusic.comKate Loeb, pres.Categories: S&F, BI Principal Brands: Stringed instruments by Josef Lorenz, Andreas Morelli, Jan Kulik, G. F. Heberlein, Hermann Lowendall, Roma, Wenzel Kohler Cellos & Basses, Roman Teller, Ernst Heinrich Roth, T.G. Pfretzschner, G.A. Pfretzschner, Enesco Stringed Instruments, Artur Teller Violins & Violas, Emanuel Wilfer Basses, Lothar Semmlinger, Rudy & Josef Schuster Cel-los. Basses 1/10 to 3/4 size by Enesco & Roma. Cases by Gordge, Gewa, Jaeger
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Wholesaler Guide& Winter. Wittner Metronomes, Music Stands & Tuning Forks, Bows by Joseph Richter, Heinz Dolling, Otto Durrschmidt, Horst Schicker, Herbert Wanka, Willhelm Raum, Alfred Knoll, Lothar Seifert and C.F. Durro Carbon Fiber Bows. Strings by Pirastro, Prim, Kaplan, Jargar, Thomastik and Larsen. Cadet Band Instruments, Mu-sica Rotary Band Instruments, Amati Band Instruments, Aubert Mirecourt & Despiau Bridges, Rosin by Hill, Liebenzeller, Pop’s, Nyman. Shoulder Rests by Kun, Wolf & Resonans, violin maker’s wood & tools, Ideal Instrument Products.
Lou Capece Music/Music World Ent. Inc. 2555 North Jerusalem RoadEast Meadow, NY 11554(516) 221-5596(800) 321-5584Fax: (800) 573-3630 E-mail: [email protected] site: www.loucapecemusic.comLou Capece, pres.Categories: PS/R, S&F, ETH, ACC, BI, PRC, P/KBPrincipal Brands: Di Palo violin, Oxford violin, viola, cello, double bass, New York Pro guitar, mandolin, electric bass, Danville amp, Daphon effects pedal, New York Pro gig bag, New York Pro drumsticks, Intelli Tuners, Intelli metronome, Kyser Capos, Shubb Capos, New York Pro tenor sax, alto sax, trumpet, clarinet, pocket trumpet, trombones, Mr. Music stands, Mr. Tambou-rine, Gliga Vasile violin, Oxford violin, viola, cello strings, Panasonic batteries, Schaller strap lock, Fort Bryan strap, American Pro rosin, Wittner, Loud Mouth speakers, Dean Markley Strings, Parrott Harmonicas, Super-Sensitive, Buffalo Products, Sky Products, Music Net Work Products, Drum Boy bongos & congas, Play-On Tunes.
Micro Musical Products Corp.18008 Liberty Ave.Jamaica, NY 11433(718) 658-1030Fax: (718) 658-5942Categories: BIPrincipal Brands: Duplexo, Free-Tone, Le Pectole, Nu-Shine, SPIVAK, Shastock, Thermo-flox.
New Sensor Corp. (Electro-Harmonix/Sovtek)55-01 2nd StreetLong Island City, NY 11101(718) 937-8300(800) 633-5477Fax: (718) 937-9111E-mail: [email protected] site: www.newsensor.com and www.ehx.com Categories: PS/R, ACCPrincipal Brands: Electro-Harmonix Effect Pedals, EHX Guitar Strings, Sovtek vacuum tubes, Electro-Harmonix vacuum tubes, Tungsol vacuum tubes, Mullard vacuum tubes, Genelex Gold Lion vacuum tubes, JJ vacuum tubes, Svetlana vacuum tubes, JJ Electronic vacuum tubes and others. Eminence speakers, EH speakersDunlop sound effects, Pro Co sound effects, E-Bow sound effectsJJ capacitors, Sprague Capacitors, Illinois capacitors, Xicoa capacitors, F & T capaci-tors, Switchcraft Parts, Carling Parts, CTS Parts, Alpha Parts, Marshall parts, Fender parts, Craig chemicals, Duracell batteries
Rhythm Tech, Inc. 29 Beechwood Ave.New Rochelle, NY 10801(914) 636-6900(800) 726-2279Fax: (914) 636-6947Web site: www.rhythmtech.com
Richard Taninbaum, pres. & CEOCategories: ETH, ACC, BI, PRCPrincipal Brands: Rhythm Tech Tambourine, Solo Tambourines, True Colors Tambourines; Studio, Cocktail and Live Shakers; Fruits, Eggz, Canz & Maraquitas Shakers; Stickball & Stick Jingl-er; Rhythm Tech Maracas & Gemini Maracas, Trigger Triangle, Rhythm Tech Cabasa & Piccolo Cabasa; Barbells, Chatterbox, Tambinio child-safe Tambourine, DST Drum Set Tambourine, Studio Series Cowbell, Moon Block, Bar Chimes, Studio Chimes, The Skratcher, Crasher, Metal-works Percussion, Rhythm Tech Conga, Bongos, Djembes, Timbales; Eclipse Conga, Bongos & Djembes; DSM2 Universal Mount, DSM Quad Mount, MGT Mountable Gig Tray, Wireless Mic Clip, Active Snare System, Balance, Bass Drum Beater, The Hat Trick, IT Tuners, Pro Torq Drum Key, The Laptop, The DKP & DKP2 Drum Kit Pack, BSX Basics Percussion Pack
Tone King Corp. P.O. Box 1095Wyandanch, NY 11798(631) 643-8333(800) 662-3478Fax: (631) 643-8005Evelyn Conrad, pres.Categories: S&F, ETH, ACC, PRC, BIPrincipal Brands: Ace Products, Adamas, Al Cass, Alaska Pic, Aranjuez, Augustine, Barnes & Mullin, Big Bends, Blessing, Black Diamond, Blitz, Blue Juice, Bo Pep, C.B.I. Ca-bles, Cannon, Chopsaver, Clark Tinwhistles, D’Andrea, Dampits, Danelectro, Danmar, Dava, Dean Markley, DEG, Dunlop, Duracell, Ebow, Emerald, ,Ernie Ball, Farley, Fender, Fin-ger Ease, Gibson, Gill, Glasser Bows, Grover/Trophy, H.W. Products, Hamilton Stands, Har-mon, Harris Products, Hearos, Hodge, Hohner, Holz, ,Huang, Humes & Berg, Intellitouch, John Pearse, Jones/Meason Double Reeds,
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It’s not hard to get excited about the masterkey 49 USB controller keyboard, because there’s a great deal to talk about. Let’s start with 49 velocity-sensitive, synth-style keys, pitch bend and modulation wheels, 4 controller knobs, a fader, a sustain pedal input, and a red LED display. And of course, masterkey 49 works with all current Windows or Mac music software products.
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Wholesaler GuideK&M, Korg, Kyser, La Bella, Lee Oskar, LM Straps, Luthier, Micro, Mighty Bright, Mollard Batons, Neotech, P&H Bows, Paige Capos, Performance Plus, Petersen, Ping, Pop’s Bass Rosin, Pyramid Strings, Qwik Tune, RDM, Redland, RegalTip, Remo, Resonans, RhythmTech, Rockstop, Rovner, Runyon, Savarez, Schaller, Seiko, Shubb, Signal Flex, SKB, Snark, Steve Clayton, Super-Sensitive, Thomastik-Infeld, TKL, Tom Crown, Vater, Vic Firth, WM Kratt, Xeros, Zildjian
NORTH CAROLINARowdy Pickers Musical Prod-ucts PO Box 4899Mooresville, NC 28117(850) 380-3438E-mail: [email protected] site: www.rowdypickers.comContact Lawson PeetsCatagories Strings, Books, Replacement Tuners, and AccessoriesPrinciple Brands-- COB Picks, Dean Mark-ley, Osborne Banjo Heads, Morrell Books, and PegHeds® Geared Tuners.
OHIO V.J. Rendano Co. Inc. 755 E. 82nd St.Cleveland, OH 44103(216) 881-0599(800) 321-4048Fax: (216) 432-3642Categories: S&F, BI, PRC, P/KB, amps Principal Brands: Galveston, Monique, T.J. Percussion, Texarkana, Casio, Pro Co, Audio-Technica, Karera, Shure Microphones.
Universal Percussion Inc. 1431 Heck Rd.Columbiana, OH 44408(330) 482-5750Fax: (330) 482-5760E-mail: [email protected] site: www.universalpercussion.comTom Shelley, pres.Categories: ACC, PRC, two full lines of drums setsPrincipal Brands: Cannon, Mega, JAMM, At-tack, Zildjian, Vic Firth, Pro-Mark, Vater, Regal Tip, Mike Balter, Drum Workshop, Rhythm Tech, Mic-Eze, RealFeel, Sound Off, Percus-sion Publications, Wuhan, Handzon Latin Goods, Beato Bags, Innovative Percussion, Black Swamp Percussion, Videos & DVDs, Holz, Cymbal Cleaners Asst., Lug Lock, Latin Percussion, Ludwig, Noble & Cooley, Pure Sound, Tree Works, Trick, XL Products, Qwik Time, Evans Products. Full Distributor of Zild-jian Cymbals and Remo Drum Heads.
PENNSYLVANIAAIM Gifts/ Albert Elovitz Inc. 3001 Penn Ave.Pittsburgh, PA 16066(800) 233-2800
Fax: 412-683-3110E-mail: [email protected] site: www.aimgifts.comAlbert Elovitz, pres.Categories: ACC, general music gift mer-chandise, accessoriesPrincipal Brands: AIM, Albert Elovitz Inc.
Breezy Ridge Instruments, Ltd.John Pearse StringsP.O. Box 295 Center Valley, PA 18034 (610) 691-3302 Fax: (610) 691-3304 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: jpstrings.com Mary Faith Rhoads-Lewis, CEOCategories: S&F, ACC, ETH, PM, video coursesPrincipal Brands: John Pearse Strings & Acc., John Pearse Books & Video Lessons; Breezy Ridge Hammer Dulcimers, Ol’ Reli-able Capos, D’Angle, Artiste Strings & Ros-ins, Weissenborn Strings, Nuages Gypsy Strings, Lil’ Nipper, K’Saire, John Pearse Armrests, JP Acoustic Pickups, Django But-tons, Wood, Horn & Bone Fancy Picks, Fast
Turtles, Jazz & Studio Flat Picks, The Edge Slide, Brass King Pins, Horn Bridge Pins, Bone Bridge Pins, Faux Tortoiseshell Bridge Pins, John Hartford Banjo Strings, Vintage Thumbpicks, Hi-Rider Fingerpicks.
Hoshino USA P.O. Box 886Bensalem, PA 19020(215) 638-8670(800) 669-8262Fax: (215) 245-8583E-mail: [email protected] site: www.ibanez.comwww.tama.comBill Reim, pres.Categories: S&F, PRC, Guitar/Signal Pro-cessing, Guitar and Bass AmplifiersPrincipal Brands: Ibanez Guitars & Basses, Ibanez Electronics & Amplification, Tama Drums & Hardware.
RHODE ISLANDJR Music Supply LLC 93 Hazel St.
What the Fusheki?The foot pedal bracket with a maraca – the LP Fusheki.
What will we come up with next?
©2011 Latin Percussion
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Wholesaler GuideWoonsocket, RI 02895(401) 762-2278(800) 333-EADGFax (401) 762-2215E-mail: [email protected] site: www.jrmusicsupply.comCategories: Manufacturer/distributor of violin-family instruments & accessories Principal Brands: Instruments: Sheng Liu, Euro, Calin Wultur; Master Instruments by Andrzej Swietlinski, Josef Simon, Andrzej Glodek, Jarek Koscielny, Wojciech Topa, Ro-man Glogowski, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, and Jan Szlachtowski. Bows: Jean Tabary Car-bon Fiber Jet Bows, JT Pernambuco-Graph-ite Bows, JT Prism Bows, JT Apprentice Bows. Cases: JR Featherlight Cello, JR Cocoon Cello. Strings: Pirastro, D’Addario, Thomastic, Super Sensitive, Jargar, Larsen, Warchal, Prim, Eurosonic, and more.
SOUTH CAROLINAMBT Lighting P.O. Box 63366 North Charleston, S.C. 29419-3366
(800) 641-8392Email: [email protected] Web site: www.mbtlighting.com Categories: Lighting & Sound
Musicorp 2456 Remount Road, Suite 305 North Charleston, S.C. 29406 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 63366 North Charleston, S.C. 29419-3366 (843) 745-8501 (800) 845-1922 Fax: (843) 745-8502 Web site: www.musicorp.com Categories: S&F, PS/R, BI, PRC, ACC, KB Principal Brands: Barcus-Berry, J.B. Player, Percussion Plus, Arbor, J.Reynolds, RMS, Amigo, Hamer XT Series, Lauren, MBT Lighting, Sierra Guitars, Stageline, MBT Cases, Samson, Zoom, Hartke, Yamaha gui-tar packages and portable keyboards, Sa-bian, Dean Guitars, Luna Guitars, Shadow, Fender Accessories, Groove Tubes. Categories: PS/R: Pro Sound/Record-ing; Stringed & Fretted: ETH, Ethnic: ACC, Accessories: BI Band Instruments: PRC:
Percussion: PM Print Music: P/KB: Piano/Keyboard
M&A Sales, LLC 2456 Remount Road #305N. Charleston, SC 29406(800) 323-6500 Fax: (800) 646-1950 Categories: S&F, PS/R, BI, PRC, ACC, KB Principal Brands: MBT Lighting & Sound, Barcus-Berry, Stageline, Dean Guitars, Sa-bian, RMS, Percussion Plus, Adam, Lauren, J. Reynolds, J B Player, Arbor, Amigo, MBT cases, Wings
TENNESSEEEMD Music, Inc. P.O. Box 487 LaVergne, TN 37086(866) 871 5800(615) 793-8787 Fax: (877) 231-6653E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.staggmusic.com Categories: PS/R, S&F, ETH, ACC, BI, PRCPrincipal Brands: Stagg, Remo, Nomad Cases, Benz Reeds
Kaman Music Corp.1042A Fred White Blvd.Portland, Tenn. 37148(615) 325-7104Principal Brands: (Please see KMC Con-necticut listing)
Morrell Music Distributing Co.2306 W. State St.Bristol, TN 37620(423) 968-5811Curtis Morrell, pres.Categories: S&F, ACC, PRC, PM, guitars, cases, videotapesPrincipal Brands: Morrell, Martin, Dunlop, Super-Sensitive, Anton Breton, Mapes, Hohner, D’Andrea, TKL, La Bella, Flinthill, Kyser, Lou Capece, Eleca, Saga, Onboard, L&M, Long Hollow.
The Music Link Corp. 2526 Quality Lane Knoxville, TN 37931 Toll Free 1-888-552-5465 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.themusiclink.net Principal Brands: (Please see California listing)
TEXASAllparts 13027 Brittmoore Park Dr.Houston, TX 77041(800) 327-8942Fax: (713) 466-5803Categories: ACCPrincipal Brands: Allparts, ABM-Mueller, Bartolini, Bigsby, Buzzstop, CTS, Danelec-tro, Earvana, Gotoh, Graph Tech, Grover, Gurian, Hipshot, Leo Quan, Razor, Switch-
What the Fusheki?The foot pedal bracket with a maraca – the LP Fusheki.
What will we come up with next?
©2011 Latin Percussion
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Wholesaler Guidecraft, Schaller, Sperzel, Joe Barden, Tremol-No, Lace, Fender, Gibson, Tone-Pros, Moses Graphite, Q-Parts, Bourns.
M&M Merchandisers Inc. 1923 Bomar Ave. Fort Worth, TX 76103 (800) 299-9035
Fax: (800) 687-0203 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.mmwholesale.com Marty Stenzler, CEO, pres. Chuck Franklin, COOCategories: Acoustic, electric, bass guitars and accessories, amplifiers, banjos, man-dolins, percussion, horns and reed instru-
ments, instructional books and videos, DJ lighting and sound, retail supplies.Principal Brands: Trinity River, Kona, Oscar Schmidt, Alpine, B.A Starr, Fender, Pyle Pro, Danelectro, Qwik Tune, Harris Musical Products, Black Diamond, GP Percussion, Zildjian, Musician’s Workshop, Watch and Learn, Hal Leonard, Mirage, Shure, Gemini, Audio-Technica, Audix, Chauvet, Gem Sound, Phonic, Ernie Ball, D’Adario, Wash-burn, GHS, Maestro, Huang, Casio, Hohner, Barraza, Main Street, Fat Boy, Merano, Zebra, Audiopipe, MTX, Yamaha, Grover , Dean Markley.
VERMONTMetropolitan Music Co. P.O. Box 14154861 Mountain Rd.Stowe, VT 05672866-846-5461(802) 253-4814Fax: (802) 253-9834E-mail: [email protected] site: www.metmusic.comRob Juzek, partnerCategories: S&F, ACCPrincipal Brands: John Juzek Stringed Instruments, E. Wilfer Basses, Resonans Shoulder Rests, Ultra Practice Mutes, Ibex Luthier Tools, Juzek Tools USA, Thomastik, Pirastro, Larsen, Super-Sensitive, Prim, LaBella, Jargar, Warchal, Dörfler Bows, Glasser, Kaces, Soundwear, Kun, Mach, Intelli, Wittner, Teller, Despiau, Aubert, Me-los Rosin, Herdim Tools, Simeon Chambers Tonewood, Hammerl Varnish.
VIRGINIAHohner, Inc. 1000 Technology Park Dr. Glen Allen, VA 23059 (800) 446-6010 Fax: (804) 515-0189Email: [email protected] Web site: www.hohnerusa.com Categories: S&F, PRC, Music Ed Inst. (Orff), ACC, Harmonicas, accordions, recorders, melodicas, kazoos, guitars, ukuleles, banjos, mandolins, drums, microphones, musical toys & children’s instruments, Orff instru-ments, bags & cases, instrument stands & musical accessories. Principal Brands: Hohner, Lanikai, Sonor, Hohner Kids, Rockwood by Hohner, HSS Bags & Cases, Kohala.
Sonor Drums 1000 Technology Park Dr. Glen Allen, VA 23059 (804) 515-1900 (877) 337-6667 Fax: (804) 515-0347Web site: www.sonor.comwww.myspace.com/sonorusaCategories: PRCPrincipal Brands: Sonor Drums and Percussion.
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WISCONSIN Dynamic Music Distributing P.O. Box 270655Milwaukee, WI 53227Phone: (800) 343-3003Fax: (800) 211-5570E-mail: [email protected]: B&O, Drum & Guitar Acces-sories, Printed Music & DVD Media, Music Stands, Guitars, Drums, Band Instruments.Proprietary Brands: Archer (guitars), Union (drums), Ravel (band instruments)Distributor Brands: Yamaha accessories, Selmer accessories, Jones, Emerald, La
Voz, Al Cass,Chem-Pak, Micro, Roche Thomas, Super Sensitive, Glasser, Trophy, The Original Swab Co., Neotech, Fibracell, Blitz, Mighty Bright, Sho-All, Blessing ac-cessories, Sherman, DEG, Chartier, Zonda, Harmon, Reed Mate, Alisyn, Berp, Meason, Kratt, Tastee-Reeds, LM Products, Manhas-set, Hamilton, On-Stage, Hal Leonard, Alfred, Mel Bay, Word, Remo, Rhythm-Tech, Mike Balter, Zildjian accessories, Sabian, Vater, Kinder, Regal, Aquarian, DW hard-ware, Rhythm Band, Treeworks, Trick, Slug, Puresound, Ludwig accessories, Danmar, Kaces, Grover, Korg, Dunlop, SKB, Ebow, Dean Markley, Evets, Fort Bryan, Shubb,
Kyser, Middle Atlantic, Audio-Technica.
Hal Leonard Corporation7777 W. Bluemound Rd. Milwaukee, WI 53213 P: 800-554-0626 / 414-774-3630 F: 414-774-3259 www.halleonard.com [email protected] VP of National Sales: David Jahnke Senior VP of Sales: Doug Lady Categories: PS/R, ACC, PMPrincipal Brands: Print Music – Song-books/Instructional Publications/DVDs: Hal Leonard Guitar Method, Hal Leonard Student Piano Library, Essential Elements, E-Z Play Today, FastTrack, Play Today, Hal Leonard Jazz Play-Along, Hal Leonard Guitar Play-Along, Hal Leonard Bass Play-Along, Hal Leonard Drum Play-Along, Hal Leonard Keyboard Play-Along, Hal Leonard Pro Vocal Series, Sing with the Choir, Hal Leonard Big Band Play-Along, Hal Leonard Blues Play-Along, Hal Leonard Harmonica Play-Along, Hal Leonard Worship Band Play-Along, Guitar Recorded Versions, Signature Licks, Berklee Press, Musicians Institute, Cherry Lane, Centerstream, Homespun, Hudson Music, Rock House, Meredith Music, Music Sales America, Faber Piano Adventures, Wil-lis Music, Shawnee Press, De Haske, String Letter Publishing, Disney Publications, Ash-ley Music, Brentwood/Benson, Fred Bock, Modern Drummer Publications, Music Minus One, Lee Roberts Publications, Rubank, Tara Publications, Canadian Brass, Lillenas, Word Music, Christian Music Summit Classical: G. Schirmer, Boosey & Hawkles, G. Henle, Schott, Universal BMG (Ricordi, Durand, EMB, Salabert), Novello, Chester Pro Sound/Recording Software: Pro Tools, M-Audio, Sibelius, MakeMusic (Finale), Steinberg, Korg (USB Controllers), An-tares (Auto-Tune) POD Studio Recording Interfaces, Propellerhead, PG Music, BIAS, Olympus Portable Recorders, Avid, Garritan Sounds, IK Multimedia, Roland MT-90U, Yamaha (headphones, Portable Digital Re-corder), Tapspace, Practica Musica, Music Wizard Group Accessories/Gifts: Art Strings Publishing (greeting cards, posters, mugs, mousepads, totes), ChopSaver Lip Balm, GigLight Music Lamps, Hohner Harmonicas, Marlo Folders, Castiv Star Page Flip, Supervocal Health Products, Section 8 Ear & Headphones, Korg (tuners & metronomes), Petersen Music Stands, Rhino Music Stands, Sellers Calendars, Yamaha (B&O accessories, re-corders), Acorn Pennywhistles, Willis Music Composer Statuettes Magazines: Christian Musician, Guitar Edge, In Tune, Making Music, Modern Drummer, Music Alive, Premier Guitar, Sing Out!, Worship Musician Trade/Reference Books: Amadeus Press, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, Back-beat Books, Chronicle Books, Focal Press, Hal Leonard Books, Jawbone Press, Lime-light Editions, MusicPro Guides, Omnibus
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Wholesaler GuidePress, Random House, Record Research, Vintage Guitar Books, Watson-Guptill Publi-cations, Writer’s Digest Books
PUERTO RICOTropical Music of Puerto Rico P.O. Box 8733San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910(787) 726-1750Fax: (787) 727-8181Boyde Benfield, pres.Categories: PS/R, S&F, ACC. BI, PR, P/KB
CANADAB&J Music Ltd.(Subsidiary of KMC Music Inc.)2360 Tedlo St.Mississauga, ON L5A 3V3, Canada(905) 896-3001(800) 268-8147Fax: (905) 896-4554, (800) 777-3265 E-mail: [email protected] Kroke, sr. v.p., gen. mgr. Categories: S&F, BI, PRC, ACCPrincipal Brands: Adamas, Antigua, Ap-plause, Augustine, Austin City, Bari, Becker, Belmonte, Big Idea Guys, Black Diamond, Bridget, CAD Professional Mics, CB Educational Percussion, CB Percussion, Celebrity, Cherub, Corelli, Darco, Durro,
Eldon, E.M. Winston, Firstnote, Genz Benz, Gibraltar, Gretsch, Grover, Hamer, Hearos, Herco, Hercules, Hirade, Hohner, Ingles, Intellitouch, Jasmine, Jim Dunlop, La Bella, Lee Oskar, LP, Manhasset, Martin, Matrix, Mighty Bright, Montana, Music Boy, Nuvo, Ovation, Perri’s Leathers, Ping, Ramirez, Remo, Retro Parts, Rimshot, Rodam, RTOM, Sanyo, Seiko, Sierra, SignalFlex, SKB, Sousa Band, Super Sensitive, Takamine, TKL, Toca, Tranzamps, Treeworks, Trophy, Ultra, V-Tech, Vega, Vic Firth, Wittner, Zildjian, Fender.
Beda Sales 2634 Shaughnessy St.Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 3G6(604) 942-1257(800) 663-5800Fax: (604) 942-4022E-mail: [email protected] site: www.bedasales.caDonna L. Barina, pres.Categories: S&FPrincipal Brands: Thomastik, Pirastro, Hofner, Wittner, Jargar, Kun, Skylark, Au-bert, Dorfler, Hidersine, Hill, Aubert, Dick, Wittner, Weidler, Super-Sensitive, Larsen, Glasser.
Coast Music (a division of Jam Industries Ltd.) 21000 TransCanada Highway,
Baie D’Urfe, Québec H9X 4B7. (514) 457-2555Sales (800)-363-8460Fax: (514) 457-0055800-263-5851. E-mail: [email protected] site: www.coastmusic.ca. and www.coastmusic.com Martin Golden, Chairman of Jam Industries Ltd.; Eddy Shenker, Co-Chairman of Jam Industries; Marty Szpiro, President, Jam Industries; Manuel Senra, Vice-president of Coast Music; Gil Karout, General Manager. Product Managers: Alex Kundakcioglu, band & orchestral; Scott Atkins, Sonor and percussion.Product specialty: S&F, ACC, BI, PMBrands: Alabama (banjos, mandolins); Alegria (violins, violas, cellos); Amy Birch (rosin); Angel (recorders and educa-tional); Apple Creek (Dulcimers), Aubert (string instrument accessories), Augustine (strings), Bausch (violin accessories), Boblen (cases) Bravo (guitars); Can-non (percussion parts), CNB (bags and cases), Crafter ( guitars ); Dean Markley (Strings), Delta Blues (harmonicas and accordions); Dunlop (strings, effects and pedals, guitar accessories), Elixir (strings), Eden Electronics, Majestic Concert and Marching Percussion, RANDALL Ampli-fiers, EPM (pickups), Falcone (Pianos),
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Wholesaler GuideFiore (accordions), Generation (penny whistles),GHS (strings and accessories), Graph Tech (Guitar Parts), Grover (Fretted Instrument Accessories), Hobart M. Cable (pianos), Gypsy Rose (guitars), Herco (Maintenance products), Hill (rosin), Hin-dersine (Rosin), Hohner (harmonicas, ac-cordions and accessories), Jay Junior (gui-tars) Jay Turser (guitars); Kun (shoulder rests), Jupiter (band instruments), Leem (cables), Mahalo (ukuleles), Manhasset (stands), Mano Percussion (congas, quin-tos, tumbadoras, bongos, djembes, acces-sories); Martin (strings), Mega (amplifi-ers) Menzel (violins, double basses, cellos, and accessories); Mighty Bright (LED lights), Neotech (straps), Pacific Trends (Piano Lamps), Paganini (Rosin), Procus-sion (drums); Profile (parts, stands, acces-sories , tuners ); Rhythm Band (percussion, brass accessories); RB (drums, sticks and percussion accessories), Rhythm Tech (percussion and accessories), Sabian (cym-bals and accessories), Samick (guitars), Savarez (strings), Segovia (guitars), Shubb (capos and accessories), Sinclair (brass instruments), Snap Jack (cables), SBR (cymbals), Sonor (drums and percussion accessories), Sonor Orff (educational percussion), SX (guitars and accessories), Thomastik-Infeld (strings), Trak (drums, hardware, drumsticks, accessories); Trophy
(accessories), Univox (microphones, amplifiers, headphones); Valencia (classical guitars), Vandoren (reeds and mouthpiec-es), Vic Firth (drum sticks and accesso-ries), Walden (guitars), Westbury (drums, hardware, accessories) and Wittner (met-ronomes and accessories).
Contact Distribution Ltd. 38 Thornmount Dr., Unit 1Scarborough ON M1B 5P2(416) 287-1144 Fax: (416) 287 1204E-mail: [email protected] site: www.contactdistribution.comBill Coons, dir.Principal Brands: APB Dyna-sonics, Coun-tryman Assoc., Optocore, Projectiondesign, Production Intercom, Rane, Renkus-Heinz, Timax.
Counterpoint Musical Services Markham, ON L3R 2W6(905) 415-0515(800) 690-0515Fax: (905) 415-9232E-mail: [email protected] Ullmann, pres.Categories: S&F, ACC, BIPrincipal Brands: Thomastik, Bohemia, Headway, Fusion Bags, Superslick, Sten-tor, Wittner, Pirasto, Hidersine, Kun, Wolf,
Legere, Mirage, Chopsaver, Harpsicle Harps, Ultrapure, Aquila..
D’Addario Canada 1-170 Alden RdMarkham, ON L3R 4C1 (905) 947-9595(800) 268-6855Fax: (905) 947-4336E-mail: [email protected] Davidson, pres.Categories: S&F, ACC, BI, PRCPrincipal Brands: D’Addario, D’Addario Bowed, Planet Waves, Rico, Evans, HQ Percussion, Pro-Mark, Puresound, Ar-chives, BeaverCreek, Danelectro, Tycoon, Qwik Tune/Time, Shadow, Suzuki Harmoni-cas, Suzuki Melodions, Solutions, Dava, Guitar Workstation, Typhoon, Verona, Wed-gie, Music Stamp, Windy City, Kind David Batons, Generation Flageolets, Snark, Biltz Cl’oths, Strukture Stands
Efkay Music Group 2165-46th Ave.Lachine, PQ H8T 2P1 (514) 633-8877(800) 343-0353Fax: (514) 633-8872Howard Kalisky, pres.Categories: S&F, B&O, PM, P/KB, ampPrincipal Brands: Ibanez guitars, basses, am-
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plification; Orange amplification, Tama drums & accessories, Wuhan cymbals & gongs, Casio keyboards, Morley effect pedals, Rocks bags, Carlos Giordano Silenzia Violins, Ebtech signal processing, J. Michael wind instruments, Groove Juice cymbal cleaner, J. Michael Wind Instruments, 2 Box electronic drums. Rhodes Acoustic Electric Piano.
Erikson Audio 21000 Trans-Canada Hwy.Baie-D’Urfé, PQ H9X 4B7(514) 457-2555Fax: (514) 457-0055E-mail: [email protected] site: www.eriksonaudio.comJeffrey Carman, div. mgr.Principal Brands: Audio-Technica, Ableton, Ashly, Cerwin-Vega, Focusrite, Fostex, Ga-tor Pro, KRK, MyMix, Novation, PreSonus, Quad Industrial, Quik Lok, Stanton, SurgeX, Vestax and Wharfedale Pro
Erikson Music 21000 Trans-Canada Hwy., Baie D’Urfé PQ H9X 4B7(514) 457-2555Fax: (514) 457-0055E-mail: [email protected] site: www.eriksonmusic.comMartin Golden, chmn., Eddy Shenker, pres., Martin Szpiro, sr. v.p., Michael Golden, v.p., Peter Patrick, g.m.,Paul Fredrick, perc. mgr., Andrew Bujold, promotions coordinator
Products: Digitech, Gator, Protechtor, Sey-mour Duncan, D-Tar, Headhunter, Marshall, Vox, Mark Bass, Hagstrom, Washburn, Oscar Schmidt, Pearl, Phonic, Quik Lok, Wharfdale, Sonic Décor, Lightsnake.Branch (Vancouver) 580 Ebury PlaceDelta, BC V3M 6M8 (604) 520-0568 Fax: (604) 520-6176
Erikson Pro 21000 Trans-Canada Hwy.Baie-D’Urfé, PQ H9X 4B7(866) 916-4660(888)-918-2244Fax: (514) 457-0055Web site: www.eriksonpro.comChristian Bouchard, div. mgr.Principal Brands: Allen & Heath, Aphex, DOD, JEM, KV2, Martin, Swefog, Doughty, Omnimount, Denon DJ, Pulsar, Turbosound, Saf-T-Rig, Chauvet, Iluminarc.
Geo. Heinl Co., Ltd. 201 Church St.Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7(416) 363-0093Fax: (416) 363-0053E-mail: [email protected] site: www.georgeheinl.comRic Heinl, pres.Categories: S&FPrincipal Brands: Aubert, Carlsson, Gold-
brokat, Nyman Harts, Pops, Pyramid, Heinl, Handorff, Roth, Dvorak, Kolstein, Pirastro, Thomastik, Jargar, Schatten, D’Addario, Augustine, Savarez, Martin, Dean Markley, Wittner, Heinrich, Hohner, Wolf, Beare, Kun, Hill, Schaller, Hidersine, Gotoh, Glasser, Dun-lop, Intellitouch, Prim, Strunal, Petz, Bam, Hamilton, Gill, Dorfler, Boblen, Bobelock.
Korg Canada 21000 Trans Canada Hwy. Baie D’Urfe, PQ H9X 4B7 (514) 457-2555 Fax (514) 457-0055 Web site: www.korgcanada.com Martin Golden, chmn.Eddy Shenker, pres. Michael Golden, v.p. George Capone, nat. sls. mgr.Categories: PS/R, S&F, ACCPrincipal Brands: Korg pianos, keyboards, digital recording workstations, guitar effects & accessories.
Martin Canada Professional Lighting21000 Trans Canada Hwy.Baie D’Urfe, PQ H9X 4B7(514) 457-2555Fax: (514) 457-0055Web site: www.martincanada.comMarty Golden, chmn.Eddy Shenker, pres.Categories: Lighting supplies, movie fix-
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Wholesaler Guidetures, scans, DJ effects, controllers, track-ing systems, fog, haze machines.Principal brands: Martin Professional, JEM, MACH.
Musiquip Inc. 325 Bouchard Blvd.Montreal, PQ H9S 1A9(615) 218-0459Fax: (800) 563-2948 E-mail: [email protected]: S&F, ACC, Amps, PedalsPrincipal Brands: Tanglewood Guitar Com-pany UK, T-Rex Pedals, AER Amps, JBovier Stringed Instruments, Hiscox Cases, Steph Accessories
Omnimedia Corporation Ltd.1875 55th Ave.Dorval, PQ H9P 2W3(514) 636-9971Fax: (514) 636-5274E-mail: [email protected] site: www.omnimedia.caDavid S. Joseph, pres.Categories: PS/RPrincipal Brands: Zoom Digital Recorders, Zoom Effects Processors, Toft, Studio Projects, Joe Meek, Trident, Your Rock Guitars, Bolt, Morpheus Extreme Pedals, Icon.
Scott’s Highland Services Ltd.143 Stronach CrescentLondon, ON N5V 3G5(519) 453-0892(519) 453-6303E-mail: [email protected] site: www.scottshighland.com; www. piperschoice.comBev Scott, CEODoug MacRae, sls. mgr.Categories: PRC, Scottish & Irish ethnic music and instruments.Principal Brands: Pipers’ Choice Bagpipes and Accessories, McCallum Bagpipes, Walton’s whistles & bodhrans, Sousata Whistles.
SF Marketing Inc. 325 Boul. BouchardDorval, PQ H9S 1A9(514) 780-2070 (800) 363-8855Fax: (514) 780-2111E-mail: [email protected] Categories: PS/R, S&F, BI, ACC, P/KB, PRCPrincipal Brands: Lighting: Advanced Devices, Alkalite, Antari, Lamps, Leprecon, Leviton/NSI, Lumi, Phase 3, SGM, Soca-pex, W-DMX – Wireless SolutionAccessories: Barkan Mounts, Canare, Digi-
flex, Furman, K&M, Littlite, Marinco, Neu-trik, NTI Instruments, RaxxessPro Audio: Aviom, Communication Special-ties, EAW, Fulcrum Acoustic, Genelec, Neutrik, Pacemaker, Pioneer DJ, QSC, Shure, Smaart Training, Symetrix, Telex Communications Musical Instruments: eMedia Music, AER, Bogner Amplification, Cleartone, Duesen-berg, Hiscox Cases, JamHub, JBovier, Line 6, Mapex Drums, Moog Music, NS Design, N-Tune, Prudencio Saez, Schecter, Steph Accessories, Tanglewood Guitar Company UK, T-Rex, Ultimate Support Systems
Wes-Can Music Supplies Ltd. 2677-192nd St., Units 117-120Surrey, B.C. V3S 3X1(800) 661-9960 (North America)(604) 543-2633 (Worldwide)Fax: (800) 600-6646Fax: (604) 543-2604 (Worldwide)E-mail: [email protected] Sallay, Leslie Sallay,Paula Lemke, Cathy LaszloCategories: S&F, PRCPrincipal brands: Raimundo, DiMarzio, John Pearse, Audio 2000, Odyssey, Maxell, Gotoh, New Media, L.R. Baggs, B-Band, Blade, THD, D’Aquisto, G7th, Clayton, CBI, Onerr, Trem King, Curt Mangan, Glider, Lace, Tech 21, BESPECO.
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Fresh Faces:NOVA Music Center
RussekRobbins has a musical back-ground that touches on everything from Cajun, swing, bluegrass, Mariachi and Turkish music (not to mention a soft spot for the ukulele), and his wide-ranging taste, knowledge and desire to share as much music as possible with as many people as possible are reflected in NO-VA’s instrument selection, sheet music of-ferings and community outreach efforts.
We recently caught Erich by phone and talked about the joys, challenges
and pleasant surprises that come with launching a music store.
MMR: What led you from per-forming to running an instru-ment store?
Erich RussekRobbins: As a per-former, I was always searching for that peak moment on stage or in a record-ing. I know I’m in that moment when the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. But as a music storeowner that moment
comes much more freely. It comes with anyone who wants to discuss an instru-ment. It comes from the excitement of someone who has found and instrument they can connect with. I like matching people to their instrument.
For a good time in the mid eighties, I worked at a Music and Arts Center, in both the repair and the retail store. I also spent sometime working for Guitar Cen-ter on Sunset in Los Angeles. I gained a lot of knowledge at both places about
Even in today’s social media-saturated society, where conversations take
place via Facebook “likes” and consensus is built through Twitter re-
tweets, there’s no replacement for a group of like-minded people coming
together in one place and sharing their passions face-to-face. For Erich
RussekRobbins, owner of Nova Music Center in Norman Rockwell-
idyllic Clifton, Virginia (population: 187), his new store, which opened
in December 2010, aims to be a community focus point, a place where
musicians at every talent level are welcome to come in and “chat
over the pickle barrel” while comfortably browsing the store.
“ I just know that I was meant to own a music store. I love my life!”
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retail, inventory management and music instrument sales.
MMR: What would you say is your mission statement or phi-losophy?
ERR: My store is a “pickle barrel” type of store. The purpose of our store is to advocate music and help the cus-tomer feel at home in our store. I encour-age people to stop by and chat. Our sales technique is relaxed and very simple. I ask my sales staff to try and get an instru-ment in the hands of every customer. The instrument should sell itself from there.
Someone mentioned to me recently how uncomfortable they feel when they enter most music stores, especially the big chains. Immediately, I knew what he was talking about because I have felt it many times before, and I have a strong enough music background where I should feel comfortable when I step into a music store. If I have an uneasy feeling, I can only imagine what it feels like to the com-plete beginner. These people are my cus-tomers, and I enjoy providing a service to them.
MMR: You’ve played everything from guitar, saxophone, piano, and vibraphone throughout
your musical life. What in-struments does NOVA Music carry?
ERR: A small store like mine cannot compete with the large chain stores that can buy in bulk and achieve a suitable return so I try to focus my stock outside what they can carry and create a niche for myself. We have a broad and deep se-lection of print music. We have a great selection of ukuleles. We are adding lines of classical, Spanish and bluegrass gui-tars. We have a couple of special lines of electric guitars coming. Our brass and woodwind department is expanding and so are our strings.
MMR: Checking out your web-site, I saw print music books for everything from Amy Grant to Type O Negative. Are you find-ing that all types of musicians are making their way to you?
ERR: We are definitely attracting a wide variety of musicians. We have had opera and Broadway singers looking for sheet music, as well as people looking for Celtic, Hawaiian and bagpipe music. I had a large sale of Jazz folios to a band director from Canada. The ukulele is an important instrument for the store and that community is starting to discover us.
I purchased Cramer’s Music, a print music store in Manassas, VA, that was going out of business. Owning that store’s stock allows me to have an immediate niche of a broad and deep selection of print music. At least once a week I have a delighted customer who discovers that I have an item that he or she can’t find anywhere else. This has happened with mouthpieces, rare sheet music and just last weekend someone asked if I had bag-pipe reeds... and I do. I’ve had people tell me they drove four hours to get to my store.
MMR: Can you tell us a little bit about the workshops and community outreach efforts that the store is conducting?
ERR: Our first workshop, in late March, is a ukulele workshop with [Grammy award-winning artist] Marcy Marxer. Most of our workshops are from professional working musicians who can provide a different insight into an instru-ment than you will find with a regular teacher. I’m also working with several local luthiers on crafting custom-made instruments to be carried exclusively at NOVA, and the store has a great front porch area where we plan to host some small concerts. The store occupies the
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front of a house with a coffee shop in the back. The two complement each other well; we’re teaming up to host some “open jams” to give the opportunity for musical newbies and more experienced players to make music together!
MMR: As a ukulele fan, are you excited about Eddie Vedder’s all-uke solo album?
ERR: Extremely. Tiny Tim had a negative impact for the ukulele for a whole generation. The new generation doesn’t know about Tiny Tim and the ukulele is coming back as a real instru-ment – and it really is a great instrument. I think it is one of the best starter instru-ments.
MMR: Any final thoughts?ERR: I just know that I was meant to
own a music store. I love my life! I work all day and I’m not tired. I like talking to peo-ple about instruments and music; it makes me feel good. I have a wonderful wife and child and I love where I live. Clifton, VA is very special. It is a historic town of 187 people surrounded by protected land. Drive five miles from my store and you are in a county of a million people [Fair-fax County - ed.]. The trick for this store’s success will be not only the support of the town but for me to find creative ways to get the word five miles out that I exist.
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211 Guitars 17013RD POWER Amplification LLC 1525Abbatron 547acouStaCorp 327Advanced Plating 913AFM 140Akai Professional 400Albion Amplification 1244Alesis LLC 400Alfred Music Publishing 1118Alto Professional 400Alvarez 436AMBROSONICS, LLC 222Amedia Cymbals USA 505American Audio 518American DJ Supply, Inc. 518American Educational Products LLC 210American Express Open 162American Way Marketing LLC 230Ampeg 928Amptweaker, LLC 1710AMV Sales & Consultation LLC 1636ANAFIMA 721Analysis Plus 547Ansir Music 728AP International 629AQUARIAN 713Arcane Inc. 1713ART - Applied Research And Technology 300Art Strings Publishing 1018Artioli Designs 274Asterope, LLC 548Audio Media 928Audio Plus Services, Inc 1328Audio.StudioShare.org 224Austin Guitars 436AxeGlove 1343AXL Guitars 1408B & S USA 232BA Ferguson Guitars 268Bass Player 928
BBE Sound, Inc. 1118Beamz Interactive, Inc. 418Beard Guitars 1300Bedell Guitars 1210Beijing DualJoy Musical Instrument Co., Ltd 1349BES Audio LLC 1330Big Island Ukulele Co. 1009Bigsby® 700Bitchstraps 844Bite Me Electric Guitars 233Blackstar Amplification 800BlueBook OnLine 1027Bluesman Vintage 1229Bootleg Guitars, LLC 1617BOSS U.S. 900Boulder Creek Guitars 1401Bourns Pro Audio 306Breedlove Guitars 1210Breezy Ridge® Instruments, Ltd. 1006Burriss Amps & Effects Pedals 1629C.F. Martin & Co., Inc. 1200CAD Audio 322Cal-Fab 1437Casio America, Inc. 736CE Distribution, LLC 1227Cedar Creek Custom Case Shoppe 1106Cedarmont Woodworking 1442Charles Dumont & Son, Inc. 918Chase Case Co. 1620Cherry Lane Music 1018Colorado Case Company 223Computerized Guitar 212Conn-Selmer Inc. 504, 601Connolly Music Company 510ConventionTV@NAMM 1027Coopercopia LLC 1703Cordoba Music Group 1211Corporate Printing Inc. 252Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum 150Course Technology PTR 1118
Crafter USA, Inc 1304Crash ‘N Flash 1715Creators Touch, LLC 1124Crystal Frets 242Cupit Music 246Curt Mangan Inc. 1418D Allen Pickups 1229D’Addario & Company, Inc 1201D’Andrea Inc. 200Dae Hung Precision Co Ltd 1600Daisy Rock Girl Guitars 1118DANSR 806Delaney Guitars 1425DigiTech 1218Dingdrum 206DJ Times 1027DownBeat 1025DR Handmade Strings 1310Drumcraft 504DSSP 744Duelin Guitars 446DWatkins Acoustics 1247Ear Filters 711EarthQuaker Devices 444Eastman Strings, Inc 743Ego-Rizer 309EKO 1521Eleca International Inc. 1336Electro-Harmonix 1518Electronic Musician 928Electronic Resources Ltd 331EMD Music 1236Emery & Webb, Inc. 1043EMG Inc. 1319Epilog Laser 311Ergotar 237Essential Sound Products, Inc. 406Eternal Musical Instrument Corp. (Beijing) 447Evans Drumheads 1201Everly Music Company, Inc. 234
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Exhibitor Booth# Exhibitor Booth# Exhibitor Booth#F.E. Olds and Son, Inc. 330Faber Piano Adventures 1018Falcon Global Distribution, Inc. 1142Fishman Acoustic Amplification 1110Flaxwood USA Inc. 1405Flourish Acoustics 1327Floyd Rose Marketing 629Floyd Rose Marketing 629Focal 1328Four Star Wire & Cable, Inc. 231Framus 718FRENDZ LLC 1717G-Wiz Electronics 264Galaxy Audio Inc. 405Gallien Technology 1513GAMA - Teaching Guitar Workshops 150Gatchell Violins Co., Inc. 822Gator Cases, Inc. 819GE Money 158Gig Products 1245Global Music Products 1709Godin Guitars 827Gold Tone, Inc. 1300Goldfish Guitars LLC 1400, 1716Gon Bops 436Gretsch Co. 700GretschGear.com 700Grip Studios 318Grover Allman 1431Guitar Connection 1621Guitar Player 928Guitar Sleeve 260GuitarHands 1007Guitars in the Classroom 150GWW Group Inc. 1109H & F Technologies, Inc. 810H.E.A.R. - Hearing Education & Awareness for Rockers 166H.G. Leach Guitars 1011Hahn Guitars 1638Hal Leonard Corporation 1018Hamilton Stands 806Hammond Suzuki USA Inc 737Hanser Music Group 906Hanson Musical Instruments, Ltd. 1626Harman 1218Harris Musical Products, Inc. 1519Harrison Consoles 338Heil Sound Ltd 319Heritage Guitar 1505HF International Trade (Tianjin) Co., Ltd 1243HK Audio 800Homespun Tapes, Ltd. 1018Hosa Technology, Inc. 528House Band LLC 405Hudson Music, LLC 1018Hughes & Kettner 300Humes & Berg Mfg. Co., Inc. 901Hunan Changsha Yale Arts & Crafts Co., Ltd 239Hunter Music Instrument 828Hyper Audio Visual 1348Inspirational Country Music Association 150International Bluegrass Music Association 150International Entertainment Buyers Association (IEBA) 150ION Audio 400Istanbul Mehmet Cymbals 500Jamhub LLC 437Jamie Gale Music 707Jean Larrivee Guitars USA Inc 1000
Jeff Ayers Custom Wdwking 1342Jensen Musical Instrument Speakers 1227Joeker Guitars 1635John Pearse® Strings 1006K and S Music 426Kahler International Inc. 1635Kala Brand Music Co. 1126KAM Instruments Corporation 345Kelly Concepts, LLC 607Kemper GmbH 730Keyboard 928
KEYS Program 150Kingstar Int’l Enterprise Ltd. 422Kiwaya USA 1308Klops Drums 1700Knilling 436Knilling Perfection Planetary Pegs 436Knowledge Of Music Inc. 1029König & Meyer GmbH 510Korg USA, Inc. 800Kyser Musical Products Inc. 1119L.A. Sax 1711
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Exhibitor Booth# Exhibitor Booth# Exhibitor Booth#Lacuna Acoustic Art 244LAG Guitars 800Lakland Guitars, LLC 1624Lanikai Ukulele 842Lauten Audio 1328Legacy Learning Systems 924Lemur Music 1708Levy’s Leathers Limited 1226Lian Hai Group Inc 546LightWing Studios 1343Little Kids Rock 150
Little Walter Tube Amps 1718Long Hollow Leather Co. 1539Ludwig Drums 601M Music & Musicians Magazine 240M3 Products, LLC 248Mahalo Amplification, LLC 1425Major Music Supply 1436Mapex Drums 600Maple Leaf Strings 542Marching.com 150Mario Martin Guitars 1623
Marshall Electronics, Inc. 401Meadowbrook Insurance Group 158Meinl USA L.C. 610Merano Musical Instruments 719Mercury Luggage Mfg. Co. 1424Mey America 429Miami Audio Music Corp. 1411Miktek, LLC 1337Miller Guitar Strap 256Mix 928Modkitsdiy.com 1227Mogami Cable 401Morgan Hill Music 1401Music Dealers Resource Group (MDRG) 334Music for All, Inc. 150Music Inc. 1025Music Magazine Publishers 1118Music Player Network 928Music Sales Corporation 1018Musical Merchandise Review 1031Musicvox LLC 1248MXL Microphones 401Nagoya Suzuki 436NAMM Endorsed Business Providers 158NAMM Foundation Pavilion 150NAMM Young Professionals 158NAMM/MM/PLS Russia 136NEMC 836New Life Digital Media 329NewBay Media, LLC 928Notemap, LLC 250Noteworthy Music Products, LLC 1712Numark Industries 400OME Banjos 1705On Point Audio 1510On Que Lighting Designs LLC 1715On-Stage Stands 1318Onori Entertainment 1244Onori International 1244Osiamo LLC 332Overton 1610Overture Guitars 1501P. Mauriat 436Paige Musical Products 1404Paiste 436Panyard, Inc. 704Paratuss 347PartnerShip LLC 158Peak Music Stands 729Penguin Group, USA 1118Penn-Elcom 1611Percussion Marketing Council 150Percussive Arts Society 150Performer Media 224Perri Ink. Guitars 343Perri’s Leathers Ltd 430Perry’s Music 1512Piano Technicians Guild 646Pick Punch LLC 221Pick-Smith Inc. 336Pigtronix 1326Piknboard 254PJLA Music Sales & Marketing 330Placid Audio 1248Pladd Dot Music 1618Planet Waves 1201Players Music Accessories 831Posse Audio 323POWER Wrist Builders 506Powerful Drums 235Premier Guitar 922Prentice Practice Pads 272
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Exhibitor Booth# Exhibitor Booth# Exhibitor Booth#Exhibitor Booth# Exhibitor Booth#PreSonus Audio Electronics 408Prism Media Products 321Pro Audio Review 928Pro Sound News 928Pro Stage Gear 1509Pro-Active Websites 320Pro-Mark 1201ProMedia Training, LLC 209PureSound 1201Q Lighting 1629QuaverMusic.com 1628RainSong Graphite Guitars 1205Raw Talent Guitar 428Recording King 1408Remo, Inc. 605Retail Up! 838Reunion Blues 1537Reverend Guitars 1250Rico Reeds 1201Riptide Ukuleles 1401Ritter Europe Ltd. 526Ritter USA LLC 526Roché-Thomas Corp. 1037Rock House 1018Rock Solid Guitar Stands 229Roland Corporation U.S. 900Rotosound 903Rowdy Pickers Musical Products 1702Rupert Neve Designs 219S.I.T. Strings Co. 1209Sabian Ltd 710Saga Musical Instruments 1100Salebug.com, LLC 1136Samick Music Corp. 536, 636Santa Cruz Guitar Corp 1208Schneider Guitars 1409SCORE 168Score Mktg. 1305SE Electronics 219Sensaphonics Hearing Conservation 307Shanghai Max Precision Instrument Co. Ltd. 729Shoreview Distribution 207SHS International, Inc. 1336Shubb Capos 1010SilverFox Drumsticks 1714SKB Corporation 1145Sonic Distribution USA LLC 228Souldier 1706Sound & Communications 1027Source Audio LLC 312Southland Music Distributors, Inc. 1502St. Louis Music 436Stagg 1236Starkey 427Stonebridge Guitars International Inc. 1719StoneWorks Picks 270Strings by Aurora 1400Studio-Blue 1123Superior Vocal Health 1607Supernatural Cymbals 604Tape Op Magazine 208TASCAM 1118Taylor Guitars 105TEC Foundation for Excellence In Audio 167Techrep Marketing 408Telefunken USA 213Telescript 202Testa Communications 1027The DJ Expo 1027The Juliet Collective 1603
The Kelly SHU 607The Loar 1408The Music & Sound Retailer 1027The Music Link 1408The Music People! Inc. 1318, 1325The Nashville Musicians Association, AFM Local 257 150The RapcoHorizon Co 411Thomastik-Infeld 510Thornhill Musical Instruments, LLC 1249Timber Tones 1519TKL Products Corp. 1106TMP Pro Distribution 1318Tonal Innovation Centre - Tonic 442ToneGear 1707ToneRite 1508Tong’s Violin Shop 443Tradition Guitars, Inc. 911Trem King® Vibrato 911Tri-Technical Systems, Inc. 1037TriCord Innovations LLC 226Tritone 236Trolli Master Sdn. Bhd. 420Tropical Music 907TSYS Merchant Solutions 158TunerGuard 1704Two Old Hippies 1210U.S. Postal Service 1542U.S. Small Business Administration 168UpBeat Daily 1025US Band & Orchestra Supplies 436
V-Picks 1536Veritas Instrument Rental 818VH1 Save The Music Foundation 150VHT Amplification 1408Vintage Guitar Inc 238VJ Rendano Music 328VNewsletter 1027Volz Music Products, LLC 1524Voodoo Lab 1500Vovox Cables 1328VOX Amplification 800Voyage-Air Guitar, Inc. 1011Walden Guitars 702Warrior Guitar, LLC 749Warwick 718Waterstone Musical Instruments, LLC 1248Wavelength Audio, Ltd. 1409WD Music Products 1420Wechter Guitars 1329Westone Laboratories, Inc. 308WhiteLight Design 237Willis Music Company 1018Wilmington Fibre Specialty Company 1231XP Audio Inc 1428Yamaha Corporation of America 618Yellow Jackets 1227Yorkville Sound Inc. 300Zaolla Silverline 528Zenph Sound Innovations 645Zonda Reeds 436
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2011 Breakfast SessionsGrand Ballroom, Renaissance NashvilleBreakfast 8–8:30 a.m. (first come, first served)Main Session 8:30–9:30 a.m.
THURSDAY, JULY 21 BREAKFAST SESSION8–9:30 a.m.FREE Breakfast served until 8:30 a.m. (first come, first served)Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Nashville
8:30–9:30 a.m. (Main Session)The NAMM Retail SummitJoe Lamond, President/CEO, NAMM, Robin Lewis, Co-Author, The New Rules of Retail: Competing in the World’s Toughest Market-place, and Guests
Retail is changing—fast. So is the Music Industry. That’s why the NAMM Retail Summit was created. This session is focused on the critical changes taking place in retail and the vital information you need to stay in business—and thrive. NAMM President and CEO Joe Lamond will sit down with Robin Lewis, co-author of the current best-sell-ing book “The New Rules of Retail: Com-peting in the World’s Tough-est Marketplace” in a frank, one-on-one discussion about the future of retailing. In the book, it’s predicted that 50% of all retailers and brands won’t survive the latest wave of change. Then a panel of NAMM re-tailers will share their thoughts on how they’ve adapted to the changing retail climate and how it’s impacted their fu-ture business plans. As a music retailer, this is your opportunity to get an exclu-sive behind-the-scenes glimpse into the
retail trends that will become your essen-tial roadmap to success.
IDEA CENTER SESSIONSBooth #837 Open 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.New sessions start every 30 minutes, un-less otherwise noted.
10:30 a.m.Wave A Wand and Make My Prob-lems Disappear Presented by Alan Friedman & Daniel Jobe, Friedman, Kannenberg & Company, PC
During challenging times, business owners often look for the “quick fix” to make all of their financial problems go away. Even employing psychoanalysis, repression and dream interpretation won’t fix most financial woes. So what does work? Is there a magic pill or a path of least resistance to fixing these
problems? Come join industry ac-countants Alan “Sig-mund” Friedman and Daniel “Freud” Jobe to
self-discover a few sim-ple business practices
that can turn your financial night-mares into the joy
of lucrative business ownership.
11 a.m.Successful Promotions
on a Dime: Creative Ways to Drive New Customers and Stu-dents to Your Store Presented by Liz Reisman, Creative Music Center
Everywhere you look, there are op-portunities for promoting your business to new clientele as well as solidifying your relationship with existing custom-ers. Liz Reisman grew her customer base with simple-yet-powerful concepts
like “Bring a Friend” to your music les-son and targeted billboard advertising - without breaking the bank. She ex-plains where she gets her best ideas (hint: at NAMM!) and how they inspire her to successfully customize them for her store. Listen in on how she’s turned her low-cost, creative programs into cash.
11:30 a.m.Store Makeover on a Dime—You Found WHAT on Craigslist?Presented by Lisa Kirkwood, Discount Music of Jacksonville
During this economy, how do you im-prove your store’s image without busting your budget? Learn how to spend very little to update and refresh your store’s design—and inventory—and how it goes a long way toward attracting new and re-peat business. There are easy and creative ways to recycle, re-purpose and reuse to get great results. New store owner and former interior designer Lisa Kirkwood will share some solid ideas and tips to find amazing bargains in unexpected places. Learn how Lisa and her husband furnished their store from scratch. You’ll be surprised at just how far your dollars can go to give you and your store a new lease on business!
Noon (Double Session)The Basics to Valuing Music Stores Presented by Alan Friedman, Friedman, Kan-nenberg & Company, PC
Given current market conditions, ev-ery business owner needs to know the value of their business. Whether it’s for sale or acquisition, family transfer, estate planning, partner buy/sell agreements, divorce or even bankruptcy, determining a dollar value for your music store is the first step in any business transition. How-ever many retailers make the mistake of spending time and money on things that ultimately don’t add value to their store.
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Join Alan Friedman, a CPA with numer-ous music store clients, to participate in a “hands on” approach to valuing a music store in today’s market as well as discover the things that do add value.
1 p.m. Cloud Computing—Bringing Google Docs Down to Earth Presented by Peter Dods, Easy Music Center
Cloud computing is the idea of using a server like Google for applications and storage. By using Google Docs’ spread-sheets, word docs, etc., instead of pro-grams like Microsoft Office, you can access your files wherever you are, don’t need to pay for software and can allow multiple users to view and edit the same document at the same time. You can also use Google Docs to create anonymous reviews, share order sheet docs and co-ordinate lessons program times. You will be computing “in the clouds”…on your iPhone, computer or iPad. Get the infor-mation you need to know to take advan-
tage of this powerful opportunity to take care of business anytime, anywhere!
1:30 p.m.Stake Your Claim! Make Your Google Place Page Work for You Presented by Grant Billings, Steinway Piano Gallery Madison
Imagine a business card that includes your hours, webpage link, pictures of happy customers, reviews about how great you are and directions to your store from anywhere in the world. Now imag-ine it’s free! If you have a storefront, you already have a Google Place Page. And your customers—and your competitors’ customers—are already using it, but until you claim it, opportunities will pass you by. Join Grant Billings as he demonstrates how to claim and build the Google Place Page for your business in just 30 minutes!
2 p.m.Customer Loyalty LadderPresented by Robin Walenta, West Music Co.
Which direction are you sending cli-ents on the customer loyalty ladder? If they continue up rung by rung, you’re doing your job right. However a less than satisfactory experience can send them back down a notch. While our business is about musical instruments and prod-ucts, it’s also about relationships. Good customer service is what keeps people coming back to your store. Join Robin Walenta for ideas and information about the importance of creating a customer relationship based culture that supports repeat and loyal customers.
2:30 p.m. Get Out in Your Community To Help Your Business Thrive – It’s a Win-Win!Presented by Gordy Wilcher, Owensboro Music Center
It seems simple enough to ‘get involved in your community.’ How? Getting out from behind the counter for starters! You can only strengthen your position and
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increase your store’s traffic—and your bottom line. Gordy Wilcher will tell you about his involvement with the lo-cal Chamber of Commerce, committee work, non-profit events, musician swap meets, talk radio shows and even cook-offs. There are more opportunities than you might realize, and so many com-munity activities that bring their own reward. Gordy and his store have been nominated for small business of the year and businessman of the year, and have a larger customer base as a result. Learn the steps he’s taken to get involved, and take on his challenge for your business to do the same!
3 p.m. Getting Things Done: Organiza-tion for Creative TypesPresented by Donovan Bankhead, Springfield Music
In this music products industry, it’s no surprise that many of us fall into a cre-ative category. As easy as it is to catego-
rize ourselves, the same can’t always be said for our files. If your organizational system involves neatly stacked piles of paperwork all over your desk, then this session is for you. Getting Things Done (GTD) is a simple and effective system that anyone can utilize and learn. Gone are the days where that important bill or bid gets “lost in the shuffle”! GTD will increase your efficiency, saving you time and money. Join us to get your business in order and keep it that way!
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. (90-minute Session)I Love to Buy! Now, I May Need Some Help to Sell Thru!Presented by Danny Rocks, The Company Rocks & Alan Friedman, Friedman, Kannen-berg & Company, PC, with Panel
Successful retailers plan their pur-chases. They only buy the products that they are confident they can sell. They have learned how to manage their inven-tory. They understand the importance
of positive cash flow. And, they balance their desire to buy products with their need to actually sell through on their purchases. Sometimes you need help to move that newest inventory – so it doesn’t become old inventory! Danny Rocks and Alan Friedman have gathered an outstanding panel of successful retailers and manufacturers who can help you to develop successful strategies for buying and selling through. You will learn the steps these retailers have taken to make sure that the products they buy actually get sold!”
FRIDAY, JULY 22BREAKFAST SESSION8–9:30 a.m.FREE Breakfast served until 8:30 a.m. (first come, first served)Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Nashville
8:30-9:30 a.m. (Main Session) The Top 10 Web Marketing Trends and How to Use Them
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Presented by John Arnold, Marketing Author and Columnist at Entrepreneur.com
Marketing tools and technologies are constantly changing. The key is in know-ing which ones to invest in today. What are consumers paying attention to—and what are they skipping over? Learn the best ways to spend your time and mon-ey—and recognize the new technologies that are less likely to pay off. Learn how to use tools like social media, search mar-keting, mobile devices and marketing lo-cally on the Internet—and how not to invest where you won’t get results. Get savvier and make your marketing efforts count by attending this session and tak-ing away today’s most effective web mar-keting tips!
IDEA CENTER SESSIONSBooth #837 Open 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.New sessions start every 30 minutes, un-less otherwise noted.
10:30 a.m. How to Use Facebook to Market Your Business: The Do’s & Don’ts Presented by Greg Billings, Steinway Piano Gallery of Naples & Grant Billings, Steinway Piano Gallery Madison
This session holds the record as the most-attended Idea Center session in NAMM U history—for a good reason! To make the most of social media, we need to truly understand it. The father and son team of Greg and Grant Billings will explain how they’ve used Facebook to successfully market their business on-line—the right way. Make your post-ings interesting, relevant and engaging. Update your postings on a regular basis. Post pictures of your customers holding or playing an instrument. Invite your customers to attend events. Greg and Grant will discuss their Facebook tips for success, as well as the technical aspects. Learn how to make Facebook work for your store!
11 a.m.How To Capitalize On Your Great-est Source Of New Business!Presented by Bob Popyk, Founder of Bentley-Hall, Inc., and Columnist for Music Trades Magazine
You’ll have to come to this session to find out how easy it can be to increase your business substantially without spending a cent. It’s easy. (Actually you might be losing money in your store each
day and not even knowing it.) This could help you run rings around your com-petition. It’s an idea that you and your entire staff can utilize. Don’t miss this program!
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11:30 a.m. How To Handle Objections In 5 Words Or Less!Presented by Bob Popyk, Founder of Bentley-
Hall, Inc., and Columnist for Music Trades Magazine
Are some of your customers walking out your door without buying? Do you
have a plan in place to answer objections like “I can buy it cheaper on the inter-net”, “I have to check with my wife (or husband)”, “I want to shop around”, or “I’ll think about it”. It can be simpler than you think. In fact in this session you’ll find out how to handle ANY ob-jection in just a few words, so your cash register will be ringing more each day.
Noon Shoot for the $tar$, You Might Hit the Moon!Presented by Daniel Jobe, Friedman, Kannen-berg & Company, PC
All music retailers are on the hunt for more revenue. Sometimes looking with-in your own business and amongst your current staff can be a gold mine. Join music industry accountant and consul-tant Daniel Jobe as he gives you a strat-egy to engaging those members of your team as well as help you find additional income within your current lesson, re-pair, rental and sales streams. Not only will he show you the money, but he will help you track the additional rev-enue and success!
12:30 p.m. Hook Them with Your Home Page! Presented by Kate Blom, Associate Director of Marketing & Communications, NAMM
Your store’s home page is the first thing online visitors see about your busi-ness—make it count! To create the biggest impact, start by looking at your business ‘personality’ and what you want your vis-itors to think of when they first see your website. Make an unforgettable first impression that entices consumers to ex-plore your site—and keep them return-ing. Listen in as Kate Blom discusses the do’s and don’ts, like skipping the jargon and keeping your contact information up to date. Kate will also touch on the pow-er of testimonials and how to be selective about content and design, tell your story, keep the site simple and make the brand-ing authentic—all leaving a positive im-pression with everyone visiting your site.
1 p.m. Marketing Locally on the Internet Presented by John Arnold, Marketing Author and Columnist at Entrepreneur.com
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The web puts you in touch with the world, but what about those shoppers right in your neighborhood? Stream-line your efforts by sitting in on this session and learning how to use on-line marketing to reach prospects and customers in a specific geographic area. Get tips on how to advertise your business on thousands of local web sites, maps, search pages, blogs, social media sites and mobile devices—and get connected with the consumers close to your store.
1:30 p.m. Monetize Your Facebook Page Presented by John Arnold, Marketing Author and Columnist at Entrepreneur.com
Getting the conversation going is one thing, but chattering doesn’t neces-sarily lead to business. Find out how to start making money with Facebook promotions by effectively advertising your products, sharing coupons and creating your own group deals. Don’t
miss opportunities to cash in on your Facebook efforts and turn your fans into loyal customers.
2 p.m. The Top 10 Marketing & Promotion Ideas That Experts Say “Try Now!” Presented by Scott Robertson, Director of Marketing & Communications, NAMM, with Retail Panel
As a busy retailer with a small store, you often don’t have time or resourc-es to invest in a lot of programs, espe-cially when you’re not sure what kind of results you’ll get. We understand! This spring, NAMM launched a new online best practices sharing section featuring successful, field-tested marketing and promotional ideas from NAMM mem-bers. Sit in on this action-packed ses-sion that will sum up the Top 10 ideas from varied retailers who have first-hand experience of what works and what doesn’t. Spend your time—and money—wisely with these proven ways to market your store!
2:30 p.m. (Double Session)Fan Your Success!Presented by Jen Lowe, BoomBoom Percussion and Tony Caporale, TwinBear Management
Jen Lowe and Tony Caporale will ex-plain how to identify your FANS – the critical first step to inspire social media, word of mouth, and branding. They will share the key components to building your customer base and teach you how to engage, involve and inspire your audience to make them life-long members of your team! Join Jen and Tony as they break it down, and give you a strategy for making your social media marketing plan ROCK!
3:30 p.m. (Special Three-Part Series)Get Ready for the “Next Genera-tion” of Music Lessons, Part 1:Applying Social Media and the Inter-net To Your Music Lesson ProgramPresented by Pete Gamber, Alta Loma Music and “The Lesson Room” Columnist for Music Inc. Magazine
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Music lessons aren’t just for indie music stores any more! You’ve got ev-erybody teaching—from the “dudes” in their garage, to churches, to chain retail-ers to online instruction via Skype and YouTube. Why does anyone really need you? Is your music lesson program going to survive? What do you need to do to survive? Discover how you can use Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media outlets to create new lesson signups, retain current students and position your music store prominently on Google and the web—paying little or nothing!
4 p.m.Get Ready for the “Next Genera-tion” of Music Lessons, Part 2:Print Music and Your Lesson ProgramPresented by Pete Gamber, Alta Loma Music and “The Lesson Room” Columnist for Music Inc. Magazine
A major part of your program—and a profitable partnership—is in print music. The power of your lessons and print mu-sic can together increase your cash flow and success!
4:30 p.m.Get Ready for the “Next Genera-tion” of Music Lessons, Part 3: Where’s Your “Woodstock”? Presented by Pete Gamber, Alta Loma Music and “The Lesson Room” Columnist for Music Inc. Magazine
Would we know of Jimi Hendrix if he never played a gig? Why do we remem-ber Woodstock? It was about the music and the event! The same goes for your music lesson program and store. Put the pieces together via student perfor-mance events. Learn how to implement your print music program, social media and your music store’s heart and soul to thrive. Create your own “Woodstock” and be the “next generation” of music lesson competition!
SATURDAY, JULY 23BREAKFAST SESSION8–9:30 a.m.FREE Breakfast served until 8:30 a.m. (first come, first served)Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Nashville
8:30-9:30 a.m. (Main Session)Best in Show: This Year’s Hottest Products Frank Alkyer, Publisher, Music Inc., with Panel
Summer NAMM is known for new products, exhibitor debuts and unique finds. And while you’re enjoying the quality face-to-face time with vendors you can only find in Nashville, it’s some-times difficult to scout out all the impor-tant items to amp up your business for the fall and holiday selling season. Join Music Inc. publisher Frank Alkyer and his panel of well-respected retailers and buyers who have combed the show floor in search of the best products, ideas and trends each selecting their top picks in four categories: Something Small, Gotta Stock It, Companies to Watch and Best in Show. Don’t miss this 60-minute snap-shot of the must-haves and must-sees be-fore you leave Nashville!
IDEA CENTER SESSIONSBooth #837 Open 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m.New sessions start every 30 minutes, un-less otherwise noted.
10:30 a.m. (Double Session)What is Working in My Music Store Now!Presented by Danny Rocks, The Company Rocks
In a world where everything’s chang-ing so rapidly, music retailers want to know what’s really working in music stores today. The good news is that Danny Rocks has some answers. He called, e-mailed and interviewed a wide range of music retailers to find out “the one thing that is working in your store now.” Don’t miss this session as Dan-ny shares the best tips in 5 categories: What product mix to buy now! When’s the best time to purchase the products that you expect to sell now! How you can best merchandise the products that you just purchased to sell now! What opportunities you have to market the products now! And, how to make sure that you’re servicing the customers who just purchased a product from you–NOW and in the FUTURE!
11:30 p.m.Successful Lessons Series: Selling Lessons As a Retail ItemPresented by Donovan Bankhead, Springfield Music
You’ve heard that you are supposed to offer lessons to improve your bot-tom line, but exactly how do you do it? Donovan Bankhead will answer the most important questions on everyone’s mind: Should my teachers be employees or independent contractors? How does my store get compensated—through rent, lesson income splits, traffic? How am I going to manage a lessons program, plus run the store? You’ll come away with a successful lessons model to use in your own business. Don’t miss this prac-tical session detailing the nuts and bolts of lesson programs, and learn how make your lesson program a profit center!
NoonBuild Your Own Buzz—and Grow Your Business!Presented by Rick Hubbard, Kazoobie Kazoos
Marketing through community out-reach programs such as sponsorships, giveaways, contests and events can build a buzz about your store and your prod-ucts. Build a bigger buzz by taking these promotions to the next level with media attention and social media interaction. These efforts help you strengthen your existing customer base, discover new cus-tomers in unexpected demographics and increase transactions and traffic. Learn fun, low-cost ways to build your own buzz—and a bigger business!
12:30 p.m.–4 p.m.Wanna Play Music Day Clinics and Sessions
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Designed with a new advanced switch-mode power supply and a high-speed class D topology, the Peavey IPR 3000 power amplifier provides 1,490 watts RMS per channel @ 2 ohms (840 watts RMS x2 @ 4 ohms) with a weight of just 7.9 lbs.
Peavey IPR Series power amplifiers feature two channels with independent, fourth-order Linkwitz-Riley 100 Hz crossovers—with preset selections for Hi Pass, Full Range and Subwoofer—and a variable-speed fan housed in a lightweight aluminum chassis. Inputs are combina-tion ¼” and XLR, while outputs are com-bination ¼” and twist-lock connectors.
Peavey’s exclusive DDT™ speaker protection with multi-point clip sampling leads a protection-circuitry suite that also includes DC, Temp, Signal and Active safeguards, all referenced on the front panel with LED indicators. Peavey IPR 3000 and IPR 1600 power amplifiers are covered by Peavey’s five-year warranty.
Retail price: $599.99www.peavey.com
Bootsy Collins Legendary Licks from Cherry LaneWritten by Karl Kaminski and approved by Bootsy Collins himself, Bootsy Col-lins Legendary Licks contains note-for-note transcrip-tions in notes and bass tab. Detailed performance notes indicate how to
play a multitude of classic licks, fills, riffs, grooves and solos.
The accompanying CD features recorded demonstrations, including slowed-down versions to help bassists master the fast and tricky passages. The pack even offers info on Bootsy’s gear setup.
Retail price: $17.99. www.halleonard.com.
Tepoe Computerized GuitarComputerized Guitar’s first model ever focuses on guitarists of the music gam-ing generation. By combining the tech-nology of a computer and a guitar, this
new product offers an innovative and portable way to learn guitar while still having fun. The guitar comes stan-dard with over 30 video lessons rang-ing from “Learning Your First Chord” and “Strumming” to “Soloing Tech-niques” and “Song Writing.”
The guitar in-cludes a condenser
mic recorder, a basic music theory e-book to teach the fundamentals of mu-sic, and the capability of downloading song lyrics for reference while perform-ing. The guitar also comes with over 800 instructional diagrams including chords strums, arpeggios, lead licks, tab-lature and reference charts. To combine fun with the elarning process, the guitar incorporates a game program that can reduce the stress of a practice sessions. Retail price: $500.www.tepoe.com
Amptweaker TightRock Distor-tion PedalThe new TightRock™ Distortion pedal bridges the gap between two very popular Amptweaker™ pedals, the TightMetal™ and TightDrive™. Its tone is not quite as heavy sounding as the TightMetal, but the gain range is higher than the TightDrive.
The pedal includes EQ and Gain Boost switches, and it also has a built-
in noise gate that automatically tracks the gain control. The Tight control, a mainstay of Amptweaker pedals, varies the pick attack from smooth and thick to tight and aggressive.
A new feature is the SideTrak™ effects loop, which turns off when the ped-al is on, which introduces a new idea: it can be used to add a compressor, cho-rus or chain of effects that only works when you play clean, or to switch to another distortion pedal to use for the rhythm sound all without having to hit more than one pedal. It’s like having a built-in A/B box. And if only the Send is used, it can send the bypassed signal to a completely different amp for the clean tone or can act as a true-bypass muted tuner send. The standard effects loop with Pre/Post switch is also included on the back, to add your favorite delay or other effect for the solo.www.amptweaker.com
Creators Touch Handcrafted Guitar Music Bench Creators Touch, LLC offers distinctive, uniquely designed and exclusively hand-crafted wooden pieces inspired by music. They’re currently featuring the Guitar Music Bench, a totally customizable piece of furniture built with mainly 1 1/2” stock materials and offered in a variety of finishes including painted, distressed, stained or natural wood. Each customer chooses their own guitar style, finish, spe-cial details, bench style and size.
The guitar bench measures a stan-dard size of 50”W x 21”D x 43 1/2”H.
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Some of the one-of-a-kind features in-clude piano keys as seating, curved style legs, and a decorative guitar of any style incorporated into the back of the bench. All distinctive parts of the guitar are
hand carved from wood and finished to look realistic. Every piece is custom-ized, making it uniquely your own and a completely individual work of art made with the utmost in quality and crafts-
manship. Prices are determined accord-ing to size, style, guitar details, finish and materials. www.creatorstouchllc.com
New Songbooks from Hal Leon-ard: Glee, Beatles, and Disney The Glee Vocal Method & Songbook by re-spected authors Kate Reid and Andy Waterman teaches people how to be-come better singers and performers, all in the style of the show.
The method teaches eight of “Glee”’s most popular songs – “Can’t Fight This Feel-ing,” “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Hello, Goodbye,” “Tele-phone” and more. Each tune high-lights three specif-ic vocal concepts, with three uniquely developed vocal exercises designed to build vocal chops. Students will learn the vocabulary of vo-cal study, understand how to use micro-phones in performance, read background info on the writers and original artists for each song and much more. The real fun comes in with the accompanying CD and the choreography instruction, containing warm-ups as well as full-length backing tracks for performance.
The Real Worship Book features 200 songs, including both new and classic fa-vorites from songwriters such as Chris Tomlin, Paul Baloche, Matt Redman, Joel Houston and others. Each song includes melody, chords and lyrics, in both singable and gui-tar-friendly keys whenever pos-sible. Guitar capo chords are provid-ed when needed, with extremely ac-curate arrangements, the series’ famous hand-written notation with no page turns, and songs indexed alphabetically, by key, and by tempo. Titles include “Agnus Dei,” “Amazed,” “Awesome God,” “Beautiful One,” “Hosanna,” “Revelation Song,” “Shout to the Lord” and many more.
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signed for pianists ready to play their first solos. Each volume comes with a CD of orchestrated arrangements. The music in the books matches these recorded orches-trations exactly, and is carefully arranged for beginning pianists. The simple nota-tion and easy-to-read layout combine with authentic-sounding recordings to provide a fun and musically satisfying performance experience for first- and second-year beginners of all ages.
The CD contains two tracks for each song: a full performance track for listen-ing and practice, plus a separate backing track that lets each student be the soloist! The CD is playable on any CD player, and is also enhanced so Mac and PC us-ers can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch.
The first volume, Disney Favorites, con-tains beloved songs like “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” “If I Never Knew You,” “Mickey Mouse March,”“A Whole New World,” and “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.” The Beatles Hits, Vol. 2 offers eight Fab Four favorites, incud-ing “Eight Days a Week,” “Hey Jude,” “Let It Be,” and “Yesterday.”The Sound of Music, Vol. 3 includes “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “My Favorite Things,” and “So Long, Farewell.” Retail price: $12.99 (Glee Vocal Method and Songbook), $29.99 (The Real Worship Book), $14.99 (Beginning Piano books)www.halleonard.com.
New American DJ Products American DJ unleashes six versatile new additions to the company’s product line.
With its transparent housing that glows when in use, American DJ’s Jelly Jewel is as distinctive as it is beautiful. The ma-
chine’s 46 red, blue, green and white (RGBW) LED beams can move to the beat of the music on any surface, such as walls, ceil-ings and dance floors.
Compact and lightweight, the Micro Star is packed with features usually found in fix-tures twice its size. The green
and red lasers produce more than 200 beams with star pat-terns that can be projected on walls, ceilings or dance floors. Built-in programs let the la-ser beams dance to the music, and the included RF wireless remote control makes it easy to change programs and colors.
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The lightweight case design and compact size make the Micro Star an ideal choice for mobile entertainers, bands, night clubs or party goers who want a portable laser light show.
Like the Micro Star, the Micro Gobo is a compact, lightweight red and green laser effect that has many features unex-pected for a fixture of its size. But the
Micro Gobo kicks up the fun factor a notch with the ad-dition of eight gobo patterns – flower, musical note, cross, heart, star, petal, pinwheel and dots – that can be changed at the
push of a button on the unit or from the wireless RF remote control.
Psychedelic atmospheric effects can be created on walls, ceilings and dance floors with the Atmospheric RG LED’s unique web-like red and green laser
patterns and the dark blue LED wash. The distinctive combination of features has a multitude of uses for clubs, parties and mobile DJ’s.
The Fusion FX Bar 5 has a TRI Col-or LED Moonflower, an LED Strobe ef-fect and ADJ’s exclusive “Galaxian” red and green lasers for an incredible array of effects and coverage in a single unit. The versatility of the Fusion FX Bar 5 is further enhanced with built in programs and the ability for sound activation.
There is no end to the applications for the H20 DMX PRO, a multicol-ored flowing water effect with DMX-512 control that’s great for
distinctive mood or background lighting. The H20 DMX PRO projects bright, vi-brant rippling wave effects on any surface with or without the use of fog. It adds a unique and serene visual dimension to nightclubs, bars, restaurants, shows, mu-sical performances as well as displays and special events.www.americandj.com
Saga Kentucky Bill Monroe Centennial Master Model MandolinTo commemorate the hundredth anniver-sary of bluegrass innovator Bill Monroe’s birth and extraordinary life, Saga Musical Instruments has been commissioned by the family to produce 100 Limited Edition Kentucky Master F-model mandolins. All will accompany a Certificate of Authentic-ity signed by Bill’s son, James Monroe.
This Centennial mandolin will feature a special pearl-inlaid likeness of Bill above a banner commemorating this hundred-year milestone and his signature in gold
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script below. Befitting this instrument, only the finest, most deeply-figured Michi-gan maple and the choicest Adirondack spruce will be used for the back, sides, neck and top – each collected from exactly
the same area that supplied the original wood used in the 1923 Master Man-dolin that Monroe played for most of his career. The finest engraved and heavily gold-plated machine heads are used with tuning buttons of genuine mother-of pearl. The gold plated tailpiece is stylisticly hand-engraved with the words “The Kentucky.” The delicate
black and white lines of purfling on body and neck
also duplicate Bill’s 1923 original. The skillfully shaded sunburst finish
of the neck and body faithfully rounds out
the look of this soon to be sought after collectable.
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The DingdrumDingdrum’s flaghip model is a musical instrument made from a 20 lb. propane tank, making it a genuine American-made steel hand drum. Its sound can be described as a cross between a xylophone and wind-chimes.
The Dingdrum is easy to play and ideal for percussionists who’d like to get some mel-ody into their performance. There are eight tabs on the face of the drum, each of which produces a different tone. Dingdrums are available in a variety of five and six-note melodic scales, each with its own distinct character. This drum is ideal for percussionists looking for a simple way to get some melody into their art without the time-consuming process of learning a new instrument. Dingdrums are de-signed to be intuitive to play and the notes sounded by the eight tabs make it a perfect instrument for improvisation.
Playgrounds are another great place for a Dingdrum. Its simple scale makes it great for kids to play on, and it does the ever so important job of exposing young people to music.
It’s easy to learn Dingdrum basics, yet there are plenty of advanced techniques
to be explored. The Dingdrum had only been available online until
now, but the company is proud to announce a full distribution to authorized dealers across the country.
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Lowell Liebermann’s Concerto for Clarinet
Written for virtuoso clarinetist Jon Manasse of the Metropolitan Opera or-chestra, Liebermann’s new clarinet con-certo is a 32-minute exploration of the depths and colors of clarinet concerto writing, featuring dazzling, sprightly passages. The present study score is large enough to read easily. The solo
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Lowell Liebermann is one of Amer-ica’s most frequently performed and re-corded living composers. Called by the New York Times “as much of a tradition-alist as an innovator,” Mr. Liebermann’s music is known for its technical com-mand and audience appeal. Having writ-ten over one hundred works in all genres, several of them have gone on to become standard repertoire for their instruments, including his Sonata for Flute and Piano, which has been recorded more than twenty times to date.www.presser.com
Gretsch Motor City Black Re-nown57 Drum SetMotor City Black adds a new color di-mension to Gretsch’s innovative and popular Renown57 drum set. Inspired by the great American car companies from the 1950’s, the Renown57 incorpo-rates timeless, iconic car design elements into each drum. The “hood ornament”
is the Renown Chevron, an aluminum triangular teardrop painted white with raised beveled chrome edges and em-bossed chrome Gretsch logo. Each drum has its own sized chevron, scaled to sym-metrically fit that specific drum size.
Renown’s contemporary features make this a modern day classic. The Re-nown57 features North American rock maple shells and standard Renown speci-fications to produce punchy and full tones. Gretsch’s ball/socket double tom holder securely mounts toms to the bass drum. For a limited time, this kit includes a FREE matching Motor City Black throne from Gibraltar Hardware. Sizes: 18x22, 8x10, 9x12, 16x16, 6.5x14 20-lug snare.
Meanwhile, Gretsch’s new Renown Purewood Wenge 6-piece shell pack fea-tures 7-ply, 100% African wenge shells finished in high gloss lacquer. One of the
strongest tropical timbers, wenge (pro-nounced “weng-gei”) produces deep, low and rich overtones with superior projec-tion and clarity. The wood’s naturally dark color and highly figured grain pro-duces a distinctive and dramatic look. Other features include 30-degree bear-ing edges, chrome hardware, die cast hoops and Evans USA heads. The snare drum is equipped with 10 lugs giving the snare a wide open sound that can cut through in any setting. Limited to 100 pieces worldwide. Sizes: 18x22, 7x10, 8x12, 12x14, 14x16, 6x14 10-lug snare
Retail price: $3010, sale price start-ing at $1957 (Motor City Black); $4155 (Purewood Wenge)www.gretschdrums.com
Levy’s Brass Grommet Guitar StrapsLeather manufacturer Levy’s new brass grommet guitar straps are 2” cotton web-bing with printed designs, complemented
with antique brass eyelets or grommets. The stylish model MC8PG is available in six original designs from the company based on classic bruising street fighter imagery.www.levysleathers.com
DigiTech iPB-10 Programmable PedalboardThe iPB-10 Programmable Pedalboard is the world’s first programmable pedalboard using the Apple® iPad®. Together with the pedalboard, DigiTech also now offers the iPB-Nexus app for iPad. This app gives
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guitar players drag and drop pedalboard design functionality. It also includes the My Tones library where users can store and organize presets. Also included is a re-al-time performance view where users can see each pedal and its settings.
Together, the iPB-10 and iPB-Nexus allow guitar players to design their ulti-mate pedalboard . Users can drag and drop up to 10 different pedals, in any order, to each pedalboard, and can even add an amp and cabinet to complete each setup. With 87 different pedals, 54 amps, and 26 cabinets to choose from, the number of different guitar tones us-ers can create is virtually unlimited. By
using the touch gestures of the iPad, gui-tar players can rearrange the pedals in their signal chain, turn them on and off, or to adjust their settings. The iPB-10 Programmable Pedalboard allows users to save their setups with the touch of a finger, and instantly recall them with the stomp of a foot.
The iPB-10 Programmable Pedal-board is not simply a dock for the iPad. It uses multiple Audio DNA2™ processors within the unit to provide users with no-latency, high-definition signal process-ing. The iPB-10 is compatible with all models of iPad2 and iPad. Retail price: $699.95www.digitech.com
Gershwin for Students from Alfred Music PublishingThe Gershwin for Students, Books 1 – 3 pia-no collections each feature seven widely popular Gershwin tunes that are ar-ranged at the late elementary to interme-diate level. Perfect for the early learner and hobbyist alike, key signatures are limited to no more than one sharp or flat, with songs appearing in approximate order of difficulty. Every arrangement is carefully graded for students, while still retaining the intent and style of the origi-nal Gershwin compositions.
Arrangements in Book 1, late elemen-tary level include: But Not for Me * A Foggy Day (In London Town) * Rhap-
sody in Blue (Selected Themes) * ’S Won-derful * Summertime * Swanee * Three-Quarter Blues.
Arrangements in Book 2, early interme-diate level include: I Got Rhythm * Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off * The Man I Love * Nice Work If You Can Get It * Rhap-sody in Blue (Selected Themes) * Someone to Watch Over Me * Summertime.
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Arrangements in Book 3, intermedi-ate level include: Fascinating Rhythm * Love Is Here to Stay * Prelude II (Blue Lullaby) * Promenade * Rhapsody in Blue (Selected Themes) * Summertime * They Can’t Take That Away from Me.
Retail price: $6.99 each. www.alfred.com/piano
Peavey’s Marvel Super Heroes Guitars Musicians of every skill level, from beginner to pro, can become real guitar heroes with these new musical instruments exclusively from Peavey, which immortalize Mar-
vel Super Heroes Captain Ameri-ca, Thor, Wolverine, X-Men, Spider-Man, Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk in highly detailed artwork on
guitars, percussion instruments and accessories.
Peavey will kick off the partner-ship in summer 2011 with a half-size Peavey acoustic guitar featuring the
Marvel Super Heroes, followed by a three-quarter size Peavey electric guitar and the full-size Peavey Rockmaster® elec-tric guitar. Peavey will also debut guitar picks and straps featuring the Marvel Super
Heroes, including fan favorites like Ghost Rider and Punisher.
Peavey and Marvel musical instru-ments and accessories will be available in summer 2011 at specialty and major national retailers.www.peavey.com
Roland UM-ONE USB MIDI InterfaceThe UM-ONE is a bus-powered 1-In/1-Out MIDI interface with LED indicators for MIDI I/O signal moni-toring, and conveniently integrates both USB and MIDI cables for easy compatibility with today’s computer-based music systems. The UM-ONE features high-performance FPT pro-cessing, which provides superior MIDI
transfer rates with lower latency and tighter clock timing.
The UM-ONE is perfect for hobbyists who want to connect a MIDI keyboard to a computer, and is also ideal for small studios or academic settings where only
one MIDI device will be connected in close proximity to the computer. In live performance settings, the UM-ONE can also be used to control a synth, drum machine, MIDI light set-up, master re-cording console, or any other MIDI de-vice from a computer.www.rolandus.com
Kaces Puck Drum Practice PadKaces adds another product offering to their expanding percussion line with the introduction of The Puck, a 3” pocket drum pad that allows you to practice anywhere!
The smaller size chal-lenges your accuracy, making you a better drummer and the surface is formulated for a natural drum re-bound. Complete with eye-catching 4-color POP counter dis-play. Retail: $9.95.www.kaces.com
WindTech AccessoriesWindTech has announced four new pre-cision audio accessories made in Amer-ica for small yet important tasks in any audio-visual engineer’s day-to-day op-erations.
The CM-80 is a Camera Hot Shoe to 1/4”-20 Adapter. It attaches to any video or still camera accessory shoe and allows the mounting of a LCD monitor, a digi-tal audio recorder or other equipment to the camera. Includes two large locking nuts. Made of high quality aluminum in a natural finish.
The CM-90 is a Sony-type Inverted Hot Shoe Adapter. It converts any 1/4”-20 female thread to a standard 5/8²-27 male Microphone thread, and it allows the user to mount a microphone to any camera with a 1/4²-20 female accessory or tripod mount. Includes two large locking nuts.
The M-6 is a large knurled edge Lock Nut with 1/4”-20 female thread. Can be used as a locking nut for any video or still camera or tripod accessory. Made from high quality aluminum in a natural finish.
The M-7 is a threaded adapter for light-ing stands or camera trpods to convert from a male 1/4²-20 to standard microphone
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thread. 1/4²-20 female to 5/8²-27 male. Retail price: $18.99 (CM-80, CM-
90); $6.99 (M-6, M-7).www.olsenaudio.com
Zildjian Gen16Gen16, the Zildjian Company’s new divi-sion, has launched a new website and will soon release two highly anticipated vir-tual products, the Groove Player app for iPhone and iPad and the Gen16Grooves.com website.
The Groove Player app can store thou-sands of beats and percussion patterns. Featuring a powerful, interactive user in-terface, the app allows users to create their own beats or purchase beats by many of the world’s greatest drummers and per-cussionist from Gen16Grooves.com. This powerful hand-held device allows users to control tempo, time signature, and drum and cymbal sound levels and post their creations to Drop Box ™ or similar web-sites. The app will sell for $2.99 and be available on the iTunes App Store soon.
Gen16Grooves.com offers beats (grooves) from thousands of the world’s leading drummers and percussionists, including Kenny Aronoff, Alex Acuna, Marco Minnemann, Wolf, Eddie Bay-ers, Danny Seraphine, Billy Martin, and a host of other world-class play-ers. Formatted into “groove pallets,” the grooves are searchable by style, tempo, artist, and genre and can be au-ditioned using two bar loops in the form of MP3 files. Also, users can down-load a complete groove and place each two bar phrase in the appropriate spot within their musical piece. The grooves may be transferred into a ZIP folder and managed in general MIDI (GM) or optimized using the Gen16 Digital Vault “Z-Pack” or any BFD product. Users can dial in articulations and as-sign sounds, mic positions, and effects. Additionally, each groove can be pur-chased from or played on the Groove Player App. Grooves can be found soon at Gen16Grooves.com.
The new Gen16 website was launched at 16:23 military time in honor of the year Zildjian began. Visitors to the site can learn about all things Gen 16, from product information, news and support to artist and educational videos, as well as purchase all products online. www.gen-16.com
Meisel MPT-70 PocketunerAt just under 2” in diameter, the Meisel MPT-70 Pocketuner™ is one of the smallest on the market, but will tune any instrument and has features typi-cally found on larger and more costly tuners. The Meisel Pocketuner is fully chromatic and features a range from B0 to B7 – suitable for all instruments. The large display is easy to read and changes
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color from blue to green when a note is in perfect tune. The Pocketuner weighs less than an ounce and features a built-in stand and key chain so it can always be kept handy. Retail price: $29.95 (battery included).www.meiselaccessories.com
New Mics From St. Louis MusicSt. Louis Music unveils two new entry-level microphones, both of which are Low Z microphones and come with a 15-foot low-impedance cable. Both feature convenient on/off switches, rugged con-struction and durable wind screens.
The stage mi-crophones mark another step in the company’s effort to con-tinue to build on St. Louis Music as a brand, and that these mics are just another of the long line of house products
being developed.Retail price: $39.95 (SSH100L),
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AHEAD Armor Cymbal SiloOffering a combination of innovation, durability, convenience and style, the new AHEAD Armor Cymbal Silo brings the advanced designs, superior qual-ity and increased protection of AHEAD Armor drum cases to a new genera-tion of cymbal bags. The Cymbal Silo is licensed by Revolution® and loaded with deluxe features such as AHEAD’s DX-Core dual foam padding, remov-able dividers covered in premium-grade Sherpa fleece and the state-of-the-art “Tuc-Away” convertible back-pack sys-tem with heavy-duty straps and lower back support. The Silo’s main compart-ment holds cymbals up to 24˝ and has a super-strong, highly-reinforced bottom while the exterior has additional storage space for hi-hats, splashes and effects.
Like the groundbreaking line of Ar-mor drum cases, the Cymbal Silo is constructed from a heavy-duty, double-stitched, 600 denier, polyester fabric—
making it extra tough, resistant to dirt, water and damage and a new standard of protection for all drummers from begin-ners to professionals.www.BigBangDist.com
Making Music with Mobile De-vices from AlfredMaking Music with Mobile Devices teaches how to employ modern day electronic devices for music making while on the go. In addition to spurring new ideas for making music, the guide also reveals how to incorporate mobile devices such as Ap-ple® iPhone, iPod Touch, Korg DS-10/DS-10Plus, and Nintendo® Gameboy, in-cluding the integration of mobile devices into the home recording environment for use with software such as Pro Tools, Ableton Live, and more. The Making Music with Mobile Devices handbook surveys current technologies, hardware, and software available for making music on mobile devices with easy-to-un-derstand set up tutorials. Geared for am-ateurs and professional music producers alike, numerous possibilities in produc-ing, performing, and even editing music remotely are revealed, along with best practice integration for studio or stage application. Retail price: $29.99.www.alfred.com/proaudio.
Pearl Triple ShakerThis 6” long, rectangular aluminum shaker provides three unique sounds: shake, click, and swish. The combination of shot and rods within the shaker allows you to rotate the body and isolate each sound or play them together, producing
an additional sound. A simple turn of the shaker activates separate sets of shot or rods, giving the player a new timbre to enhance the musical experience.
Standard playing of the Triple Shaker gives you a shake sound, but by rotating
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once, the shaker provides just a single click for isolated rhythms. Another ro-tation gives the shaker a swish sound, making this shaker the most versatile of its kind. The Triple Shaker comes in a bright red metallic finish with black end caps. Retail price: $44.00www.pearldrum.com
i-Series Injection Molded Case LineThe addition of four brand new sizes in SKB’s i-series cases brings the count up to 22 different injection molded cases from the company that provide a variety of solutions for customers seeking water-proof, yet lightweight cases.
All of the new i-series cases are injec-tion molded with impact resistant, ultra high-strength polypropylene copolymer resin that has been independently tested to be over 2½ times stronger than the competition. The case shells are designed and manufactured to US Military speci-fication standards (MIL-STD) for tacti-cal applications. The waterproof airtight and submersible design (IP67) is also re-sistant to corrosion. All cases include mul-tiple padlock locations, snap-down rubber over-molded cushion grip handles and SKB patented trigger latches. If locking latches are needed, the latches can be eas-ily changed to a TSA locking trigger latch with the purchase of a latch kit.
The 3i-2217-10 case has interior dimen-sions of 22” x 17” x 10½” with the base being 8½” deep and the lid being 2” deep. This case includes an injection molded telescoping handle and two in-line skate wheels. This case is available as an empty or cubed foam version. The estimated street prices for the 3i-2217-10 are $174.99 (empty) and $224.99 (cubed foam).
The 3i-3614-6 case has interior di-mensions of 36½” x 14½” x 6” with the
base being 4½” deep and the lid being 1½” deep. The case includes two in-line skate wheels. This case is available as
empty or layered foam versions and is shipping now. The estimated street pric-es for the 3i-3614-6 are $159.99 (empty) and $194.99 (layered foam).
The 3i-1510-6 case has interior dimen-sion of 15” x 10.38” x 6” with the base being 4¼” and the lid being 1¾.” This case will be available in empty and cubed version in July, 2011. The estimated street prices for the 3i-1510-6 are $84.99 (empty) and $104.99 (cubed foam).
The 3i-1914N-8 has interior dimen-sions of 19” x 14½” x 8” with a base be-ing 6” and the lid being 2.” This case will be available in empty and cubed version in July, 2011. The estimated street prices for the 3i-1914N-8 are $109.99 (empty) and $149.99 (cubed foam).www.skbcases.com
Adams Keyboard Travel BagsAdams Voyager Frame Marimbas, Vi-braphones, and Xylophones have new custom case sets designed to protect all parts and simplify transportation. The vibraphone bags are a brand new addi-tion for Adams while the marimba and xylophone bags have been updated for 2011. The Adams Soft Bag set features heavy-duty ballistic nylon shells, comple-mented with heavy-duty nylon handles, shoulder straps, and integrated wheels on the larger bags for the heaviest com-ponents. All bag sets are complete with padded and lined interiors for scratch free protection, as well as more pockets
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VOX VDL1 Dynamic LooperThis floor effect unit contains two inde-pendent loops, Pre and Post Loop effects, and a dynamic footpedal allowing real time control of both loops and effects. Two independent loops can be stacked with an infinite number of tracks using innovative Sound on Sound recording, with no loss of fidelity. Overdubbing fea-tures include last-step undo and redo.
Eleven categories of Pre Effects can be applied to the sound before recording, each offering numerous options. There are standard effects such as wah and de-lay, and unique effects such as pitch shift-ing, filtering, synths, and even bass and acoustic guitar simulators. Pre Effects can be applied to the instrument input, Mic input or both. Also included are Loop Ef-fects, which can be applied to the record-ed phrases. Loop Effects allow the user to apply effects and control the recorded
phrases with Pitch, Speed, Scratch, Stut-ter, Reverse, Cross Fade, and numerous Filters, Delays and Modulation Effects.
A “wah-style” expression pedal pro-vides volume control, or can be assigned to a specific parameter control for the Pre or Loop effect. The imaginative design allows users to create sounds never before possible on the guitar. Four additional footswitches allow convenient perfor-mance control of the pedal’s presets and recording capabilities.
The VOX Dynamic Looper holds 100 Programs. A single program contains the settings for the Pre Effect, the Loop Effect and assignment of the expression pedal. There are 50 Preset Programs and 50 User Programs. Programs can be cre-ated by either editing one of the preset programs or by starting from scratch.
The built-in metronome can provide a rhythmic guide; Loop Quantize uses the tempo to create perfect-length phras-es that loop on the beat. Auto Recording Start waits for an audio signal trigger, eliminating the need to hit record. The entire performance can be re-sampled as the basis for a new loop. Three Stop modes allow Loops to be stopped Clean, with Delay added, or to Fade out. The
dual-mode Master Limiter assures a constant level between the loops and the original signal. Retail price: $400.00.hwww.voxamps.com/us
Audio-Technica Quietpoint Noise-Canceling HeadphonesAll four models of the new QuietPoint headphones use Audio-Technica’s exclu-sive QuietPoint active noise-cancelling technology to effectively block outside noise. The ATH-ANC7b, ATH-ANC27, ATH-ANC25 and ATH-ANC23 offer up to 90% noise-cancelling performance. Unlike many other noise-cancelling headphones, their audio functions even if their battery runs down, ensuring listen-ers will never be without their music.
The ATH-ANC23 in-ear model fea-tures Comply TM Foam Tips, which use a patented design that comfortably seal
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30 times softer than standard ear buds, they’re remarkably comfortable.
The ATH-ANC7b, ATH-ANC27 and ATH-ANC25 feature cushioned ear pads and an adjustable headband, and have a detachable cord, enabling their use as cordless noise-cancelling headphones. The ATH-ANC7b and ATH-ANC27 headphones both fold flat for easy storage in their hard shell carrying cases, and the ATH-ANC25 has a compact folding de-sign that takes up minimal luggage space when stored in its handy travel pouch.
All models come with an airline adapt-er and an AAA battery, and the ATH-ANC7b and ATH-ANC27 models come with a 1/4-inch stereo adapter. The ATH-ANC23 also includes Comply Foam Tips, S, M and L sized rubber ear tips and a soft carrying pouch. Retail price: $219.95 (ANC7b), $119.95 (ANC27), $79.95 (ANC25) and $99.95 (ANC23).www.shopaudiotechnica.com
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R.A.T. Z3 Tablet StandTablets and similar gadgets offer many advantages over sheet music such as in-stantly providing access to any music, storing all music in one manageable lo-
cation, freeing valu-able storage space and, with their illuminated screens, eliminating the need for lighting.
Z3 is the first in what will be a series of tablet floor stands, designed to meet the demands of the music industry and fill an unmet need in the consumer market.
With a telescopic stem and hinged iPad cradle, the stand holds the device securely at any height or angle. This makes the stand
suitable for any musician, from a cellist to a trumpet player.
In keeping with the design of tablets, Z3 is lightweight and portable; folding flat in just 3 simple moves. A 360 degree rotation feature on the cradle enables the iPad to be operated in landscape and portrait modes.www.ratstands.com
Korg nanoSERIES2The nanoSERIES2 is Korg’s next gener-ation of slim-line USB-MIDI controllers. Compact and convenient, with serious functionality and features, nanoSER-IES2 incorporates many user-requested enhancements and offers them up in the same ultra-slim casing as the original nanoSERIES. The size and color of the entire series nicely matches a laptop Mac or PC. All three units are also a perfect addition to Korg’s 37-note microKEY USB MIDI keyboard.
The nanoKEY2 is a 25-note keyboard controller for creating songs, featuring a separate-type keybed (modeled after that of a Macbook®) to ensure precise, reliable recording, as well as a damper button of-fering sustain on the fly. Also included are buttons for octave shift, pitch bend, modu-lation, and a key transposition.
The nanoPAD2 is great for input-ting drum parts; it also boasts new func-
tionality that lets users record using the X-Y pad, just as on Korg’s Kaossilator Pro. Enhancements include four more
velocity-sensitive pads (16 to the origi-nal nanoPAD’s 12) and Kaossilator gate arpeggio patterns built into the X/Y control pad, letting users play MIDI ar-peggios.
The nanoKONTROL2 provides eight channels of the controllers needed to control music software, plus a set of transport buttons. A knob, fader, and three switches are provided for each of the eight channels, respectively assigned to pan, volume, and solo/mute/record (or
whatever the user specifies). www.korg.com
Quick Horn Rinse SudserThe new Quick Horn Rinse (QHR) Sud-ser cleans brass instrument pipes quickly and effectively, making on-the-go clean-ings easy and convenient. The tool flush-es water through the lead pipe to dislodge and remove small and large particles of debris from the horn. The result is a clean and free blowing instrument. The QHR is designed to provide intermittent and easy horn cleaning. It is in no way in-tended to be a replacement for an annual cleaning maintenance program.
The LB Model is designed to fit all large bore brass instruments. The SB Model is designed to fit all small bore brass instruments. www.quickhornrinse.com
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Shure SM58 Give It Voice Tour WinnersShure Announces the regional winners of the SM58® Give It Voice Tour. Fans vot-ed and the 15 bands chosen to advance to the final stage of the competition are one step closer to rocking the legendary Shure SM58® Vocal Microphone at the RedGorilla Music Fest in Austin, Texas.
The bands nominated to perform at the renowned regional venues for a chance at stardom are:• The Internet, Daniel Durrett, and
Captions, The Roxy in Los Ange-les on January 19, 2011 at 8:00 P.M. PST
• Rivals of the Peacemaker, St. Bagu, and Samantha, Metro in Chicago on January 20, 2011 at 6:00 P.M. CST
• The Specktators, Nick Edelstein, and Ingrid Salas y su grupo Black Shadow, Wildhorse Saloon in Nash-ville on January 25, 2011 at 6:00 P.M. CST
• JJ & The Rogues, Of Forgotten Dreams, and The Pulse Electric, Emo’s in Austin on January 26, 2011 at 7:00 P.M. CST
• Llama Tsunami and the Without Hel-met, Captain Cutthroat, and Mieka Pauley, The Paradise in Boston on January 27, 2011 at 7:00 P.M. EST
After the live performances, fans will vote again and determine the band that stood out from the crowd. The final win-ner will have the opportunity to rock out on the SM58 at Austin’s RedGorilla Music Fest and win $10,000 worth of Shure gear.
To learn more about the tour, listen to tracks from the regional winners, or to cast a vote for your favorite band, please visit www.giveitvoice.shure.com.
North Hollywood ENGL Guitar Amp Showroom German-engineered ENGL Guitar Am-plifiers now have a home base in North Hollywood, Calif. The company has an-nounced the opening of a new showroom that will enable players to see, hear, try and feel these boutique amplifiers in a comfortable, hassle-free environment.
The new facility, located within the Third Encore complex at 10917 Vanow-en Street, offers players the opportunity to really dig into the amps without the fear of disturbing others, or being dis-turbed. Showroom manager and U.S. artist relations director Michael Berger is available for a one on one consultation and demonstration of the full amplifier line. Players can also purchase ampli-fiers at the showroom, and to celebrate the grand opening, ENGL is offering an extended two-year warranty for a limited time. In addition, the showroom offers ENGL parts and merchandise.
To schedule an appointment, players should contact: Michael Berger, Show-room manager and U.S. Artist Rela-tions director at (310) 895-8249; E-mail: [email protected]
Kala Brand Visits DC with NAMMKala Brand Music, Inc. took an opportu-nity to spread cheer through the nation’s capitol this spring during NAM’s Fly-In week to Washington DC. The company presented a custom painted red, white and blue ukulele to Peter Cunningham,
the Assistant U.S. Secretary Of Educa-tion for Communications and Outreach, at the Strumming and Drumming for Education ukulele and drum circle. NAMM President Joe Lamond present-ed Cunningham with the commemora-tive patriotic ukulele donated by Kala
in appreciation for the Dept.’s ongoing commitment to music/arts education.
The strum and drum circle took place in front of the Department of Education and participants included music students from George Fox and Lime Kiln Middle Schools. Instruments for the ukulele and drum circle were provided by Remo, Inc. and Kala. Representing Kala were Mike Upton, President, and Rick Carlson, Di-rector of Sales and Marketing.
The red, white and blue ukulele was specially hand painted in Kala’s custom shop in California for the event which was also attended by jazz guitarist/New York Yankee great Bernie Williams and former U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley. While holding the uku-lele Cunningham proclaimed, “We are 50 million percent in favor of music and arts education in schools, and we will work very hard to make sure America embraces the benefits of a full education that includes music and the arts.” www.kalaukelele.com
AMV Sales Adds QR Code Ser-vice to Its Stable of Goods This SummerAMV Sales & Consultation, a company that offers music-related apparel, print goods, collectibles, accessories and other items is now offering a new service: the QRiff, a QR code service that will al-low retailers to post comprehensive info online about any product in their stores with just a scan from a smart-phone. See the QR code below for a demonstration.
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time webmasters are sometimes neces-sary, and there just might not be time to update every item in the inventory.
QR codes – the blocky black-and-white images appearing with growing frequency on print ads lately – are like next-genera-tion UPC codes, scannable by any cus-tomer’s smart phone. With them, stores can market as many products in their store as they wish via those smart phones, many of which have apps that scan QRs and can store multiple bits of data, and pictures. It’s like having detailed brochures for every-thing, without the waste of paper.
Stores can also add that data to their own websites, linking for free to the info on the QRiff site and just pay around $1 for each QR code they use. It’s all cloud-based so there’s no in-tensive software to download. AMV says the
new service might also help retailers com-pete with E-Bay. The QRiff site is going live for the first time ever this summer. For more info, visit www.amvsales.com
American DJ and American Au-dio Go on Nationwide TourDJs of all experience levels will have an opportunity to see ground-breaking products from American DJ and Ameri-can Audio as they embark on their 2011 Summer Tour, with stops in several lo-cations around the country. Presented by American DJ National Sales Man-ager Alfred Gonzales and the 2010 US DMC Champion, DJ Etronic, this tour is a perfect opportunity for DJ’s who couldn’t make it to one of the big trade shows to get up close and personal with some of the most innovative, technically advanced DJ gear on the market today.
A question-and-answer session with in-dustry experts and hands-on demonstra-tions will provide attendees with opportu-nities to learn about the exciting features on new ADJ and American Audio prod-
ucts, and how they may apply to their own businesses. Attendees will also be able to enter giveaways for chances to win great prizes and enjoy a free buffet, provided by American DJ. Gonzales will discuss and demonstrate American DJ’s latest and most exciting DMX and LED lighting products that produce incredible, breath-taking effects, including the H2O DMX PRO, Atmospheric RG LED, Hypnotic RGB, Duo Scan RG and more.
Meanwhile, DJ Etronic will present the latest American Audio MIDI con-trollers and mixers in an entertaining and educational way geared towards DJ’s of all experience levels. Products to be demonstrated include the VMS4 and VMS2 mixers, the Versadeck and more.
The tour is ongoing through the summer, ending on August 25 in Portland, Oreg. www.americandj.com
Cort Guitars Teams with John Lennon Talent AwardAs part of their growing support for mu-sic education and promotion, Cort Gui-tars donated three guitars as part of the winning prizes to this year’s recipient of the John Lennon Talent Award after a contest held in Germany last month.
The three guitars were the Cort Mat-thias Jabs Signature model Garage 2 gui-tar featuring the Scorpion guitarists favor-ite Scorpu pickups, coil tap switch, a two
way, full force pickup switch and Graph Tech Tusq nut; a custom finished Cort acoustic guitar and a fully customized Cort M520 electric guitar with custom paint, mahogany body and neck, carved top and Tone Pros bridge and tailpiece.
With just over 1,000 entries in this year’s competition, Bavarian band Shenaniganz walked away with the prize. The competi-tion lasts nearly a year as initial entries are reviewed and narrowed down to 25 in a similar fashion to television’s American Idol.
Those 25 then perform and 11 bands or art-ists are selected into a crash course of the music industry, committing every spare mo-ment to rehearsals, evaluations from indus-try luminaries and coaching sessions that include songwriting, stage performance, music business and law, and musicianship. www.cortguitars.com
JZ Microphones on Lady Gaga’s New Album Latvian mic manufacturer JZ Micro-phones were proud to announce that their products were were used extensively in the production of Born This Way, the latest full-length release from Lady Gaga.
Recording engineer and producer Rafa Sardina (Beyoncé, Shakira, Stevie Wonder), who worked on Born This Way, revealed that he used JZ mics extensively in the recording process. “It was really ex-citing to do some ‘out of the ordinary’ ses-sions for Lady Gaga using some of my new toys, the JZ V47 and V67 microphones,” he says. “I ended up naturally gravitat-
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ing towards them, even though I had a great vintage mi-crophone selection at my disposal.’’
The mics were also recently used by engineer Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, The
Strokes, U2) on Christina Perri’s debut al-bum, “Lovestrong”. www.jzmic.com
Atwood and Freer Lead Cloyd Duff Timpani Master ClassPearl/Adams Artists Jim Atwood and Tom Freer taught the 30th annual Cloyd Duff Timpani Master Class from June 13-17, 2011. Held on the campus of the Universi-ty of Missouri at Kansas City, Atwood and Freer lead a week of all things related to timpani – including technique, musicality, repertoire, mallet wrapping, head clearing, head tucking, instrument care, and audi-
tion preparation. Founded in 1982 by the legendary Cloyd Duff, the five day class at-tracts aspiring timpanists from around the world, including students, teachers, ama-teurs, and professionals.
As part of Pearl and Adams’s continuing support of providing exceptional education-al opportunities for aspiring percussionists, a set of four Adams Dresden Classic Timpani and a set of four Adams Generation 2 Pro-fessional Timpani were made available for use during the class. Each day, Atwood and Freer presented lectures on the fundamental technical and musical considerations that
made Duff’s approach to timpani integral to generations of timpanists. Class partici-pants also performed a variety of standard repertoire in a master class setting, working with either Atwood or Freer.
Pearl and Adams are proud to support this outstanding event with such a storied history. Each year, the Cloyd Duff Tim-pani Master Class stimulates a group of in-spiring musicians by working closely with professionals who dedicate their time to the future of their craft. By working with musi-cians such as Atwood and Freer, Pearl and Adams are able to create instruments that are embraced by professionals worldwide for their sounds, excellence, and quality. www.pearldrum.com
Symetrix Jupiter System Goes On the DefenseThe Royal Thai Armed Forces Head-quarters in Thailand’s Ministry of De-fense recently called on contractor Fuzion Far East,well-respected not only for flaw-less designs but also for tremendous after-sale service, to improve the sound quality the organization’s Bangkok headquarters. Fuzion director Siri Wongkamolchun re-lied on a Symetrix Jupiter 8 “zero learning curve” signal processor to deliver stellar quality and functionality with minimal setup time and at a very competitive price.
Fuzion also installed a complement of NEXO loudspeakers in the ceiling, in-cluding four PS8s, one PS8TD-V3, and two LS400s. Two Quest QM12MP stage monitors provide fold-back while mini-mizing feedback. The Symetrix Jupiter 8 is one of three hardware configurations in the Jupiter Series and provides eight inputs and eight outputs. The unit accepts all of the input sources at the headquarters’ func-tion room to deliver equalization, limiting, mixing, and feedback suppression using the Gain-sharing Automixer 1 app.
Users control the system with a Vity wireless touchscreen panel. They select which input sources are active and their volumes via the Jupiter 8. Other controls, that users really have no business adjust-ing, are not made available.
“The installation was very successful,” said Wongkamolchun. “The AV systemis professional and functional, and pressing the room into service forlectures and meet-ings has been transparent and straightfor-ward for theMinistry of Defense.”www.symetrix.co
Crossrock Offers Huge Give-away at Summer NAMMThe Crossrock™ Case Company is giving away a package of instrument cases worth $2500 at the Nasvhille Summer NAMM Show. The durable musical instrument case manufacturer announced that deal-ers can enter to win this package either by calling 541-550-7122 to set up an appoint-ment for the Summer NAMM Show, or by stopping by their booth at the conference (#422) and putting a business card into the Crossrock fishbowl. Crossrock™ cases aim to provide MI retail establishments a powerful combination of high-quality case products & great profit margins. With
multiple warehouses being planned to en-sure low shipping costs for dealers, The Crossrock™ Case Company is providing quick, affordable solutions that dealers need when working with a case company. www.crossrockbags.com
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Our inventory has Soprano Saxophones, Alto Flutes, Alto Saxophones, Flutes, Tenor Saxophones, Clarinets, Trumpets, Mouthpieces.
Alto Saxophones:29 Selmer Alto Sax AS230CC CARGO CASE $1855 $997
9 Vito Straight s7133 Soprano Sax $795 $645
37 Selmer Alto Sax SILVER & GOLD LTDA1SG $2435 $1250
26 Selmer Alto Sax GOLD LACQUER LTDA1LQ $2255 $997
Call or email for complete list978-745-5255 • [email protected]
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Vintage Instruments
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Ad IndexCOMPANY NAME E-MAIL/WEB ADDRESS PAGE COMPANY NAME E-MAIL/WEB ADDRESS PAGE
AAc-Cetera Inc. www.ac-cetera.com 94Ace Karaoke/Acesonic USA www.acekaraoke.com 56Al Cass 88Allparts Music Corp www.allparts.com 96Amati’s Fine Instruments www.Amatis.us 40American DJ Supply Inc. www.americandj.com 13American Way Marketing LLC www.americanwaymktg.com 44Amptweaker www.amptweakers.com 77AMV Sales & Consultation LLC www.amvsales.com 60Asterope www.asterope.com 43
BJ.J. Babbitt Co. Inc. www.jjbabbitt.com 72Big Bends LLC www.bigbends.com 62Breezy Ridge Instruments Ltd. www.jpstrings.com 95
CCasio America, Inc www.casio.com 45Chem-Pak Inc. www.chem-pak.com 84Chesbro Music Co. www.chesbromusic.com 57Civilized World, Inc. www.civilizedworld.com 77Classic Musical Instruments www.hofner.com; www.paesold.com 76The Computerized Guitar.com wwwComputerizedGuitar.com 56Connolly & Co. www.connollymusic.com 83Coopercopia LLC, Inc www.CooperStand.com 82Creators Touch, LLC www.creatorstouchllc.com 68
D/ED’Addario & Co. www.daddario.com 10Dingdrum www.dingdrum.com 92Dream Cymbals And Gongs www.dreamcymbals.com 20EMD Music Inc. www.staggmusic.com 46Executive Systems West www.quickhornrinse.com 89
FFishman Transducers, Inc. www.fishman.com 48Fishman Transducers, Inc. www.fishman.com 49Fishman Transducers, Inc. www.fishman.com 51Fishman Transducers, Inc. www.fishman.com 50Flaxwood USA, Inc www.flaxwood.com 78Floyd Rose Marketing www.floydrose.com 71
GGalaxy Audio www.galaxyaudio.com 62Gatchell Violins Company, Inc. www.gatchellvioilins.com 79George L’s www.georgels.com 36Godin Guitars www.godinguitars.com 61Graph Tech Guitar Labs www.graphtech.com 68
HHal Leonard Corp. www.halleonard.com 15Heil Sound www.heilsound.com 78Hunter Music Instrument Inc. www.huntermusical.com 89
KKala Brand Music Co. www.kalaukulele.com 84Kingstar Int’l Enterprises Ltd. www.kingstarintl.com 5Kiwaya USA www.kiwayaukuleles.com 79KMC Music, Inc www.kmcmusic.com 58Kyser Musical Products Inc. www.kysermusical.com 87
LLegere Reeds ltd. www.legere.com 21LP Music Group www.lpmusic.com 54-55Lunch Box Productions www.wreckingcrewfilm.com 24
M/NMetropolitan Music Co. www.metromusic.com 85Miami Audio Music Corp. www.miamiaudiomusic.com 8NAMM www.namm.com 26-27National Educational Music Co. www.nemc.com 42Nektar Technology, Inc www.acorn-instruments.com 53New Sensor Corp. www.newsensor.com 18-19
P/RPaul Shelden Global Productions/ Diplomatte www.diplomattemusic.com 86Peak Music Stands www.peakmusicstands.com 44Peterson Strobe Tuners www.petersontuners.com 59Raw Talent Guitar www.rawtalentguitar.com 69Rock Solid Guitar Stands www.rocksolidguitarstands.com 90
SSabian Ltd. www.sabian.com 31Saga Musical Instruments www.sagamusic.com 47Saga Musical Instruments www.sagamusic.com 25Saga Musical Instruments www.sagamusic.com 39Samson Technologies Corp. www.samsontech.com 17Samson Technologies Corp. www.samsontech.com 3Samson Technologies Corp. www.samsontech.com 11Schaller Electronic GmbH www.schaller-electronic.com 52SHS International www.shsint.net 82Shubb Capos www.shubb.com 90S.I.T. Strings Corp. www.sitstrings.com 73SKB Corp. www.skbcases.com 35
TTaylor Guitars www.taylorguitars.com 7TKL Products Corp.MMR www.tkl.com 1Tone King Corp. [email protected] 93ToneRite Co. www.ToneRite.com 65Tregan Guitars www.treganguitars.com 24
U/VU.S. Band & Orchestra Supplies www.StLouisMusic.com 64U.S. Band & Orchestra Supplies www.StLouisMusic.com 75Visual Sound www.visualsound.net cov4VocoPro www.vocopro.com cov2Voyage-air Guitar www.VoyageAirGuitar.com 60
W/Y/ZW.D. Music Products Inc. www.wdmusic.com 36Wittner GmbH & Co. KG www.wittner-gmbh.de 63Yamaha Corp. of America www.yamaha.com 37Yorkville Sound Inc. www.yorkville.com 9Avedis Zildjian Co. www.zildjian.com 41
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