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Buying & Selling

I get e-mails from all corners of the industry, from both the retail and the supply side. Sometimes, the message is “thank you” or “you took the words out of my...

Rattle & Strum

The guitar market is often lumped together as exactly that: an amalgam of all different types of guitars, and every manufacturer from small to large. That, ...

PRS Guitars’

2-Channel Custom Amplifier PRS Guitars, based in Stevensville MD and in business since 1985, has become known over the past nearly three decades—by retailers a...

Guitar Sales Hit A High Note

2012 Was Another Good Year, Led By Acoustics What a difference two months can make. In February, a story titled “The State of Our Union,” written by this autho...

Sleuthing In ‘The Steel City’

He did it again… The Chief gave me an assignment in a city that’s typically blustering with snow and wind in the middle of winter. “The assignments have to b...

This Grandma’s No Little Old Lady

Grandma’s Music & Sound is currently the largest music store in the state of New Mexico—in terms of both square footage and sales—but that wasn’t always the...