The Circle Game – Acoustic Guitar Suppliers Discuss the Market
While fans and retailers of electric guitar impatiently await the next “guitar hero” to revitalize that segment of the market, acoustic guitar sales continue to climb (see our dealer survey…
KumbaYEAH! Acoustic Sales Continue to Set the Pace
With nearly half of the participants in our recent survey – sent out to over 400 MI retailers – reporting that acoustic guitar sales are “up,” and with an impressive…
SpiderCapo Harmonik Mutes Attachment
Create natural harmonics with any open string, while fingered notes still sound as played. This is possible because the depressed string is pushed down below the mute. When attached at…
Holiday Buyers Guide
With Summer NAMM disappearing farther and farther away in your rearview, it’s time to look into stocking up on the products you might have missed out on earlier in the…
Stomp The Band – Dressing Effects Pedals Creates an Aesthetic That’s Market-Ready
The overheated fine-art world is supposedly cooling off, with prices coming down off the blistering highs of recent years. But you’d never know that after walking the floor at the…
Vic Firth Remembered
Everett Joseph “Vic” Firth hit the ground running and never let up speed. When I interviewed him for a feature in our sister publication, School Band & Orchestra, a few…
Presidential Campaigns and the Arts – It’s on US!
I finally made it! I did something I’ve always wanted to do! I went to Iowa where presidential candidates were courting caucus-goers at the Iowa State Fair. Believe me, it…
Three Reasons Every Business Owner Needs A Right-Hand Man
Well, here we are in the fall season, and just when you have a good, young employee trained efficiently, they’re off to college, and the training starts all over again.…
Ovation resumes US production in Hartford
Anyone intrigued about Drum Workshop’s plan for the Ovation guitar brand it acquired from Fender earlier this year, will be interested by news that US production is about to resume…
Ovation resumes US production
Anyone intrigued about Drum Workshop’s plan for the Ovation guitar brand it acquired from Fender earlier this year will be interested by news that US production is about to resume again.…
Guitar Center, Gibson, Fender Cleared in Price Fix Case
A ruling in the US Ninth Circuit Court has cleared Guitar Center, Fender and Gibson of price fixing. According to www.courthousenews.com The Ninth Circuit refused to revive a class action accusing…
Guitar Center, Fender and Gibson cleared of price fix allegations
A ruling in the US Ninth Circuit Court has cleared Guitar Center, Fender and Gibson of price fixing. According to www.courthousenews.com The Ninth Circuit refused to revive a class action…