Bill’s Music Becomes Full Line D’Angelico Dealer
Bill's Music in Baltimore, MD recently became a full line D'Angelico dealer. To celebrate and to unveil the instruments, Bill's hosted a clinic & guitar sale on Black Friday featuring…
HARMAN Professional Division Announces New AKG Leadership Team
HARMAN Professional has announced a new leadership team for AKG’s professional business. Having previously appointed Bryan Bradley, general manager of HARMAN Professional’s loudspeaker business unit, to lead AKG in July…
Trade Regrets: Hugh Goldsmith
In 1937, Hugh Goldsmith was hired by the Mason-Risch Piano Company of Canada when he was still a teenager. After enlisting in the Canadian Air Force to serve in WWII, Goldsmith returned…
JHS Appoints Pieters Musical Agencies as New Benelux Agent
John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd. has strengthened its position in Benelux with the appointment of Pieters Musical Agencies as Sales Agent for Fret-King electric guitars, Santos Martinez Classical Guitars, Supro amplification, Danelectro and Italia electric guitars and a host…
Trade Regrets: William Kent
William Kent, who along with his late brother, Ed, formed the Kent Drum Company, passed away in his Buffalo, New York area home at the age of 99 on December…
Trade Regrets: Vern Schafer
Vern Schafer, founder of Colton Pianos and president of Schafer Piano Movers, passed away on December 8. As a teenager, Schafer joined the family business, Schafer Piano Movers, and developed…
Fishman Fluence Sponsors Sweepstakes
Fishman Fluence is sponsoring the “Win Greg Koch Sweepstakes” contest to promote brand awareness and desire to buy for its pickups, while driving traffic to MI retailers. Running from January…
31st Annual Fifty Dealer/Fifty State Review & Forecast
ALABAMA Guitars and More Gardendale Dustin Honeycutt, president 2014 vs. 2013? We’ve had an increase of 50 percent. Hot new product line? PRS, Takamine, Peavey and Blackstar. Technological advances? Facebook…
22nd Annual Dealers’ Choice Awards
The 2014 Dealers’ Choice Awards again brought together hundreds of enthusiastic music products retailers to select the lines that made this year a success. This winning slate of instrument, sound, lighting and…
Our Industry’s Trailblazers, and How They’ve Influenced Me
Ever since I was 11 years old, I’ve known what I wanted to do. My dad used to call me his “shadow,” because I’d follow him everywhere and eavesdrop on…
Social Climbing
Social media – Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, et cetera – has drastically reshaped the way that individuals, organizations, and companies interact with one another in a remarkably short span of…
Succeed at That Which You Do Well
In late October of this year, the U.S. government ceased qualitative easing (QE), a program which had involved the Federal Reserve purchasing government bonds to the tune of billions (you…