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July 2016 Digital Edition

Staff
COVER STORIES Music Speaks The wind at our collective back, NAMM’s team of music industry leaders and artists swarmed the halls of Capitol Hill in May to thank our federal lawmakers for shepherding through the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a...

Largest Ever NAMM Fly-In Builds On Past Successes

Dan Ferrisi
Twenty-fifteen ended on a triumphal note for many in the music products industry, as Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) on December 9 and, the next day, President Obama signed it into law. MI industry members, who have traveled t...

Perspective On The MI Market Sector

Staff
The guitar amp market seems to be “polarizing,” by which I mean that the trend seems to be moving toward the extreme ends of the market. The bulk of the market appears to be either the $500-and-below price point (sometimes way below) or the boutiqu...
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DPA Microphones Announces New CEO

Matthew Van Dyke
DPA Microphones, a manufacturer of high-quality miniature microphone solutions for professional audio applications, has announced that Kalle Hvidt Nielsen will become the company's new Chief Executive Officer on September 1, 2016. At this time, Niels...
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SLM Family of Brands Broadens With StagePRO

Matthew Van Dyke
St. Louis Music has added the StagePRO line of stands, cables and other combo accessories to its family of brands. Previously known as StagePRO by Hamilton, SLM Acquired Hamilton stands and StagePRO in November of 2015. “One of the most fortun...

Challenging The Status Quo

Donovan Bankhead
I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have an internal drive always to improve anything of which I’m a part. I’m never satisfied with the status quo, and my mind seems to be wired to push beyond boundaries and to try to improve things. ...
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Kala Brand’s 2016 Elite Ukulele Series

Dan Ferrisi
The popularity of individual musical instruments tends to be cyclical, with “hot” periods sometimes being measured in years and sometimes being measured in decades. For the past half-dozen years or more, the ukulele has enjoyed a renaissance in p...