Although we cover the accessories category every year in our November issue, our look at the segment feels particularly timely this year, as more and more retai...
Several years ago, when we started to publish our annual “Salute to Lesser-Publicized Music Products,” the piece tended to focus on esoteric instruments that, i...
For its brand identity, The Music & Sound Retailer tries to be the champion of brick-and-mortar, mom-and-pop, independent music stores. Perhaps no annual fe...
D’Addario & Co., Inc., was selected as a featured New York company for one of a handful of commercials that are running as a series for Sen. Chuck Schum...
Few companies in the music products industry boast the passion, devotion and loyalty that a family business can stimulate. For Jim Cavanaugh, President of Super...
Reports of the death of American manufacturing have been greatly exaggerated. And, although both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump might be painting too rosy a p...
In an industry characterized by passion, the drum and percussion segment is perhaps most imbued with that quality. Simply put, drummers and percussionists are m...
Connolly Music has launched a free online publication, stringovation.com.
The publication, which debuted in October, is devoted to music teachers, string mus...
The Avedis Zildjian Company has promoted Neil Larrivee to Vice President of Education and Drumstick Product Development.
In the role, Larrivee will bring tog...
On October 4, the Sabian Education Network held an event at Humber College in Toronto, Canada, attended by an enthusiastic group of local teachers. It was the f...
I am the Editor of The Music & Sound Retailer, the most widely read trade publication serving the music products market. I am a lifelong writer and editor, working for Testa Communications, publisher of The Retailer, for more than 10 years.
