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Building on the steadiness and growth of the past decade, Eastman Music Company and its family of instruments (Eastman Strings, Eastman Winds, Eastman Guitars, S.E. Shires, and Wm.…
St. Louis Music (SLM) recently announced the recipients of its first annual Sales Achievement Awards, recognizing the outstanding efforts of the SLM sales team throughout 2015.
If you happened to miss it during the blizzard of NAMM coverage, here’s a brief summary of what Fender took to the show.
This year’s NAMM welcomed a record line-up of exhibitors and a slight increase in visitor registrations, according to the organiser.
QSC, LLC. recently announced that Gene Joly has been named vice president of QSC Professional Division which offers live performance solutions including mixers, power amplifiers, and loudspeakers for…
NAMM's usual flood of news makes it easy to miss some of the announcements made at the show. So, ever considerate, here's a few which you may have missed…
Music creation startup ROLI launched another spongy keyboard at NAMM - the Seaboard RISE 49, a four-octave model of its innovative keyboard.
Winners in 31 technical and creative achievement categories were announced at the 31st Annual NAMM TEC AWARDS held on January 23 in Anaheim, California.
Tish Ciravolo of Daisy Rock Guitars previews a new concept guitar on display in Anaheim this year.
Winners in 31 technical and creative achievement categories were announced at the 31st Annual TEC Awards at NAMM.
At its Annual Meeting of Members, held January 23 during the 2016 NAMM Show, the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) named eight new music industry professionals to…
Focusrite Novation Inc. (www.focusrite.com) and KMC Music (www.kmcmusic.com) have announced that, effective immediately, KMC Music will become a United States distributor of both the Focusrite and Novation digital…
The Keyboard division of Yamaha Corporation of America names Music Exchange “Overall Dealer of the Year” for the second year in a row at the 2016 NAMM Show.
The 2016 recipient of the Don Johnson Industry Service Award, Steve West, addresses the crowd on Saturday morning in Anaheim.
Pearl River's David Rooksby discusses the company's recent MMR Dealers' Choice win, the new alliance with Schimmel Pianos, and more.
Taylor Guitars is adding to its revival of the 12-fret guitar with an expanded suite of 12-fret models for 2016.
Avid® and Focusrite have a history of industry-shaping collaborations, from the world’s first plug-ins to feature a fully skeuomorphic GUI (D2 and D3), to the original Focusrite-designed Mbox®…
On Thursday morning of the 2016 NAMM Show, Alfred Music's Iris and Ron shared thoughts of the recently departed -- and much missed -- Morty Manus.
MMR's Terry Lowe hands Xiao Wei of Pearl River Piano Group with the Dealers' Choice Award for "Acoustic Piano Line of the Year" on Thursday of this year's…
BLOWiT Fans are low-profile and can clamp onto drum hardware or microphone stands.
On Tuesday, January 12th, Yamaha hosted a special gathering at Yamaha Artist Services on 5th Avenue in NYC to preview four innovative instrument lines.
Create a new generation of music makers in your community with the new Sesame Street Makes Music app.
Continuing its multi-year effort to provide access to historic modular synthesizers at the Winter NAMM show, this year the Bob Moog Foundation will feature an original 1967 R.A.…
Roland goes into this year’s NAMM with its usual plethora of product announcements, which includes the new Blue Cube Hot guitar amp, a new compact digital piano and…
