Crafter To Help Tegeler Music Raise Money For Wounded Warriors
Iowa’s Tegeler Music has announced plans to donate the proceeds from their third Annual Benefit Concert to assist service members who have been injured in the line of duty. Proceeds…
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2013 Music Products Industry Archive
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Dallas Sam Ash Music
Sam Ash recently celebrated the opening of its new Dallas outlet, the second Sam Ash store in the Texas market.The new facility features 21,500 square feet of space with plenty of free parking…
Griffin Tech Adds Mobile Musical Products
[caption id="attachment_47917" align="alignleft"]Griffin Tech is set to add several new musical products to its catalog of mobile goodies.[/caption]Griffin Technology, one of the world's foremost creators of accessories for home, mobile…
Chauvet DJ Sponsors Promo Only Party at 2013 DJ Expo
For the third year in a row, CHAUVET® DJ is the exclusive lighting sponsor of the Promo Only Party and Artist Showcase taking place during The 2013 DJ Expo in…
Queen Guitarist Brian May Performs at London Train Station with Chauvet Lighting
[caption id="attachment_47913" align="alignleft"]Brian May performing at St. Pancras International.[/caption]Rock legend Brian May and West End star Kerry Ellis team together for a live performance illuminated with 24 wireless, battery-operated Freedom™…
Skip's Music Celebrates 40 Years at Stairway to Stardom 2013
On August 11th & 12th, Stairway to Stardom, the groundbreaking summer music program founded in 1981 and designed for young musicians, will once again reach its seasons grand finale in Sacramento, California.14…
Hal Leonard Expands Magazine Distribution with NewBay Media Deal
A new deal with NewBay Media makes genre-leading magazines – including Bass Player, Electronic Musician, Guitar Aficionado, Guitar Player, Guitar World, Keyboard, Mix, Revolver, and more – exclusively available to…
Casio’s Dee & Ricky-Designed XW-G1
The new XW-G1 synthesizer was created by design duo Dee & Ricky Jackson, known for their collaboration efforts on the Casio G-Shock collections. Only two units of the Limited Edition…
Seymour Duncan Black Winter Pickup
[caption id="attachment_47885" align="alignleft"]Seymour Duncan Black Winter Pickup [/caption]Black Winter pickups are designed to provide a balance of mids, treble, and bass to work well with both heavy riffs and articulate…
Gretsch Taylor Hawkins Signature Snare Drum
[caption id="attachment_47883" align="alignleft"]Gretsch Taylor Hawkins Signature Snare Drum[/caption]With a 6.5”x 14” black nickel-plated steel shell, the Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters) snare drum features 10 lugs, an adjustable chrome-plated throw-off, 2.3…
Latin Percussion Click Hi-Hat Tambourine
[caption id="attachment_47881" align="alignleft"]Latin Percussion Click Hi-Hat Tambourine [/caption]The Click Hi-Hat Tambourine allows users to quickly mute jangles with click of the patent-pending oversized button on the top of the tambourine.…
Planet Waves NS Micro Tuner
[caption id="attachment_47879" align="alignleft"]Planet Waves’ new NS Micro Tuner[/caption]Planet Waves’ new NS Micro Tuner’s lightweight design allows it to be clipped to the back of the headstock, so this easy-to-use tuner…
Yamaha CGX102 Nylon String Guitar
The CGX102 features a Spruce top, Nato back and sides and a Mahogany neck with a Rosewood fingerboard and bridge. A new System68N preamp, featuring a Yamaha contact pickup with…
Walden Guitars Sollana Series Classical Guitars
[caption id="attachment_47875" align="alignleft"]Walden Guitars Sollana Series Classical Guitars [/caption]Walden’s new Sollana guitars incorporates their modern neck joint and neck reinforcement system. The Sollana series will also feature premium tonewoods such…
Yamaha APXT2 Small Body Guitar
[caption id="attachment_47873" align="alignleft"]Yamaha APXT2 Small Body Guitar [/caption]Yamaha’s new three-quarter size APXT2 guitar is designed for travel, practice, busking, and even gigging.The new model includes Yamaha’s proprietary Acoustic Resonance Transducer…
Godlyke Maxon AD10 Analog Delay
[caption id="attachment_47871" align="alignleft"]Godlyke Maxon AD10 Analog Delay [/caption]Housed in Maxon’s new Compact Series chassis, both of these new models include easy-access battery door; LED Status Indicator; 9-Volt Battery or AC…
Hal Leonard’s ‘The Rickenbacker Electric Bass - 50 Years as Rock’s Bottom’
[caption id="attachment_47869" align="alignleft"]The Rickenbacker Electric Bass[/caption]The Rickenbacker Electric Bass – 50 Years As Rock’s Bottom provides hundreds of color photos and descriptions, along with the history to sort out the legend…
Trade Regrets: Amar Bose
Dr. Amar Bose, founder and chairman of Bose Corporation, design engineer, holder of many patents and professor at MIT for more than four decades, passed away July 12 at his…
Sabian Xs20 Cymbals
[caption id="attachment_47863" align="alignleft"]Sabian 18XS Crash[/caption]The Xs20 series from SABIAN now includes three key new models. Designed for low-volume settings, the dB Control Crash is a bright, extra-thin model that is…
‘First Place for Jazz’ from Kjos
[caption id="attachment_47497" align="alignleft"]First Place for Jazx from Kjos[/caption]First Place for Jazz is a comprehensive jazz curriculum by noted educator, Dean Sorenson. Suitable for group or individual instruction, the book is…
Amati Koa Ukuleles
[caption id="attachment_47860" align="alignleft"]Raine Goldfish Ukulele[/caption]Amati has introduced three ukulele models from Koa built with retailer profits in mind, with a designed 45 point gain for dealers at MAP pricing. These…
Yamaha POCKETRAK PR7 Digital Recorder
[caption id="attachment_47858" align="alignleft"]Yamaha POCKETRAK PR7 Digital Recorder[/caption]Equipped with newly developed XY stereo microphones, Yamaha’s new PR7 captures high-resolution stereo recordings and offers practice functions such as an onboard tuner and…
Meredith Music Publications ‘New Work for Trombone and Euphonium’
[caption id="attachment_47856" align="alignleft"]‘New Work for Trombone and Euphonium’[/caption]This text covers styles appropriate to an intermediate book for brass. It includes music from the 14th century up to the beginning of…
Universal Audio Apollo 16 AI with New Software
[caption id="attachment_47854" align="alignleft"]Universal Audio Apollo 16 AI with New Software [/caption]Apollo 16 is Universal Audio's flagship 24-bit/192 kHz audio interface, delivering conversion with 16 x 16 analog I/O. This FireWire/Thunderbolt-ready*…
Audio-Technica System 10 Digital Wireless System
[caption id="attachment_47852" align="alignleft"]Audio-Technica System 10[/caption]Operating in the 2.4 GHz range, immune to TV and DTV interference, System 10 offers accurate sound and easy operation with instantaneous channel selection, sync and…
Waves Audio Genesis Bundle
[caption id="attachment_47850" align="alignleft"]Waves Genesis Bundle[/caption]Waves Genesis is a collection of plugins for live sound. Programs include C4 Multiband Compressor for dynamic equalization and tone-shaping; Renaissance DeEsser to control sibilant “ess”…
Roland Cube-GX Guitar Amp
[caption id="attachment_47848" align="alignleft"]Roland Cube-80GX[/caption]Roland’s all-new CUBE-GX series features three combo guitar amplifiers equipped with the i-CUBE LINK interface for iOS devices, allowing for versatile operation and built-in connectivity for Apple’s…
Sennheiser Develops the ‘Innovation Campus’
[caption id="attachment_47846" align="alignleft"]The Sennheiser Innovation Campus[/caption]Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG recently began the construction of the company’s “Innovation Campus.” The building complex will offer space for meetings as well…
Casio Donates Keyboards to University in Memory of Professor’s Father
[caption id="attachment_47687" align="alignleft"]Faculty of New Jersey City University.[/caption]Casio America, Inc. recently donated three keyboards to New Jersey City University in memory of Dominique Romeo, the father of Rob Romeo ’85,…
Line 6 Outfits Live Sound for N.J.’s Calvary Chapel
New Jersey’s Calvary Chapel North Jersey recently installed a Line 6 Dream Stage system to satisfy needs for a simple, effective new sound system.“Because set-up time is such a big…
JHS to Distribute Cymatic Audio's LR-16
[caption id="attachment_47841" align="alignleft"]Cymatic Audio LR-16[/caption]Worldwide independent trade distributor John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd. is the new exclusive UK and Eire distributor of the Cymatic Audio LR-16 multitrack recorder and…
Pearl/Adams Launches DCI Website
[caption id="attachment_47839" align="alignleft"]DCI's Cavaliers drum corps[/caption]Pearl/Adams recently launched PearlAdamsDCI.com, featuring content from Pearl/Adams drum corps from across the country. Users can check the site regularly throughout the 2013 DCI season…
American Idol Guitarist Uses Radial's PZ Deluxe
[caption id="attachment_47837" align="alignleft"]American Idol's Brady Cohan[/caption]During his gigs as American Idol guitarist, Brady often plays a Traugott guitar. He enjoyed the sound but found himself dissatisfied when it was amplification.…
Dave Matthews Sax Player Jeff Coffin Joins Rico
[caption id="attachment_47835" align="alignleft"]Jeff Coffin[/caption]D’Addario and Rico recently announced the addition of saxophonist Jeff Coffin to the Rico artist roster. Coffin is an internationally recognized saxophonist, bandleader, composer and educator. For…
Anthem Names Sarcia Director of Sales
Anthem Musical Instruments has appointed Frank Sarcia as director of sales. Sarcia has worked in the music products industry for over 25 years, holding sales management positions for many companies…