Summer NAMM Will Give You The Key… And Here’s Why
Well, it’s official: summer has finally come! For most of us, the season’s arrival evokes images of basebal...
Every once in a while, a store is fortunate enough to have one person who can fulfill all the roles of a Web site coordinator, with technical knowledge and co...
Reenergized Kluson Tuners
The love for, and the desire to make, music has been a hallmark of humankind as far back as we can be traced. So, it’s perhaps not su...
As I write this, the music for Disney’s “Frozen” is selling like the proverbial…er, hotcakes. The House of Mouse hasn’t had this big of a success in years, and ...
Island Music is one of the East Coast’s must-see musical instrument retailers, with a jaw-dropping inventory that literally goes from the floor to the top of th...
“So, now that the NAMM show is over, I guess you folks can take it easy for a while, right?” It’s a remark we sometimes hear (and one I might have even said mys...
I felt exhilarated when I found out about my latest spy mission. I was to go—undercover, of course—to four musical instrument stores in search of a mid-leve...
In the music products industry, there are some companies whose history of making musical instruments goes back not only decades but, in fact, a century or more....
Lee Raymond and Damon Walker.
High Strung Violins & Guitars, Durham NC’s 25-plus-year-old music store, is on the move again, this time expanding from 18...
Leading Manufacturers Illuminate A Segment of Growing Importance
As part of its annual exploration of the pro audio market, The Retailer sat down with three in...