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SABIAN INTRODUCES B8X SUSPENDED CYMBALS

StaffFebruary 6, 2015

Shortly after announcing its best-selling B8 series would be replaced with the significantly improved B8X, SABIAN also announced it was adding Suspended cymbals to the new B8X line. The first-ever Suspended models in B8 alloy for the innovative c...

Get Involved with the PMC: Making a Difference at NAMM 2015 and through May International Drum Month

StaffFebruary 5, 2015

The Percussion Marketing Council (PMC) hosted a percussion industry leaders panel at the 2015 NAMM Annual All-Member Meeting on January 23. The “Get Involved in Growing the Percussion Industry and Create More Customers in 2015” panel was moderated by...

D’ADDARIO AND LONGTIME PARTNER, ALVAREZ GUITARS, WORK TO BOOST AWARENESS ABOUT GUITAR HUMIDIFICATION

StaffFebruary 4, 2015

D’Addario, the world’s top music accessories manufacturer, and Alvarez, one of the leading acoustic guitar brands worldwide and a long-time D’Addario OEM string customer, have struck up a pilot program in an effort to promote proper guitar humidifica...

MXL’s Mobile Media Series

Dan FerrisiFebruary 3, 2015

Look around you on a train, in the mall or at the movies, and you’ll have no doubt that we’re in the age of mobile devices. More than just a phone and Web browser, these devices have also become our primary tool to take pictures and shoot video. ...

9 Worst eBay Seller Mistakes

David HallFebruary 2, 2015

Love it or hate it, eBay has become a formidable competitor to music retailers. Although originally intended for individuals to clear out their attics, eBay has evolved to become one of the most popular vehicles for selling musical instruments an...

New Company President Had The NAMM Show Floor Buzzing

StaffJanuary 30, 2015

Alfred Music’s Complete Starter Packs Godin’s Montreal Premiere Supreme Lightburst Flame HG Kirlin Cable’s Light Gear Series Schecter Guitar Research’s Hellraiser Passive Series Brian Ball Appointed President Of Ernie Ball Inc. Che...

Guitar Center Reduces Corporate Staff Levels

StaffJanuary 30, 2015

Yesterday, The Music & Sound Retailer learned that there had been a substantial wave of layoffs at Guitar Center, centered specifically on the corporate and field-supervision level. This news comes only a couple of months after the resignatio...

Veddatorial: A Tangled Webb

Dan VeddaJanuary 29, 2015

Some in the industry media expressed surprise at the “abrupt” resignation of Mike Pratt from the CEO position at Guitar Center, having been replaced by Darrell Webb, former CEO and Chairman of Sports Authority (and, earlier, CEO and Chairman of i...

A Retailer That Gives The People “Moore”

StaffJanuary 28, 2015

The year was 2012. Brett Mulzer, an accomplished musician and music instructor, had been operating a world-class recording studio in a small town about an hour east of Evansville IN since 2005, and he decided to move his studio, and his family, t...

Adapted For Success: An Inside Look At Gruhn Guitars, 45 Years On

StaffJanuary 28, 2015

It is perhaps not surprising, given his undergraduate work in animal behavior studies and graduate work in both that and zoology, that George Gruhn, Owner of Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN, analogizes his widely respected vintage, used and new gui...