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2016 Music Products Industry Archive
Search and browse MMR’s music products industry reporting timeline, connecting companies, people, products, NAMM coverage and market developments across the digital archive.
Penwick Media (the creators of Pensado’s Place, the weekly educational web series) and Hal Leonard jointly announce the introduction of Pensado’s Strive, a new multi-format educational initiative.
D’Addario is launching Humiditrak - a new climate monitoring system designed to decrease environment-related damage to musical instruments with real time temperature and humidity updates via Bluetooth.
The industry’s largest international trade show opens the doors to arguably its most important ever show on Thursday, offering a new-look format, the reaction to which will determine the future viability of…
PLASA, the Professional Lighting and Sound Association, has appointed Roland’s former pro-audio head, Peter Heath to the new role of managing director.
Musikmesse (April 7 to 10) and Prolight + Sound (April 5 to 8) are set to turn the city of Frankfurt, Germany into the pivotal point for the entire music…
Austin Musical Electronics, LLC has announced it has purchased ZT Amplifiers, a leader in powerful, lightweight, and compact musical instrument amplifiers.
To help support the launch of its expanded United States sales and marketing program through KMC Music, Manuel Rodriguez Guitars, the world’s second oldest line of guitars, announced that it has…
Universal Percussion has filed a lawsuit against Guitar Center, accusing it of engaging in bait-and-switch selling tactics that caused Universal Percussion to lose out on sales of its Wuhan-branded cymbals and…
NAMM Musikmesse Russia, an international fair for musical instruments, sheet music, music production and music business connections, and Prolight + Sound NAMM Russia, an international fair of technologies and services…
Universal Percussion, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Guitar Center, Inc. (GC), accusing it of engaging in bait-and-switch selling tactics that caused Universal Percussion to lose out on sales of…
Guitar Center has announced Boulder, Colorado, native Kate Brady as the winner of the fifth annual Guitar Center Singer-Songwriter artist discovery program.
Tune in to AT&T AUDIENCE Network for: “Ernie Ball: The Pursuit of Tone ‘Buddy Guy’” on Friday, March 25 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT (DIRECTV Ch 239/U-verse Ch 1114).
Yamaha Corporation of America (YCA) has announced that Lisa Steele-MacDonald has been appointed as the company’s director of marketing for the Band & Orchestral division.