King brand featured in black football exhibit:
Conn-Selmer.(FOREFRONT)
THE KING 2350 SOUSAPHONE is part of a new display, "Blood,
Sweat, and Tears: The History of Black College Football," featured
in The College Football Hall of Fame. Here visitors experience . . .
Eminence & Yamaha celebrate collaboration.(FOREFRONT)
YAMAHA CORPORATION of America recently received a citation from
Eminence Speaker company heralding the two firms' longstanding
relationship. Eminence inducted Yamaha into its Million Dollar . . .
Line 6 acquires X2 digital wireless.(FLASH)
LINE 6, INC., the industry leader in modeling technology for music
products, has acquired X2 Digital Wireless Systems, one of the leading
manufacturers of digital wireless systems for musical . . .
Ford & Fender team up for limited-edition guitar/car: 40th
anniversary shelby comes standard with a Carroll Shelby autographed
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FORD MOTOR COMPANY and Fender Musical Instruments Corp. made some
noise together at the 37th annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in
Scottsdale, Arizona, January . . .
Stop chasing after more customers.(EDITORIAL)
At any industry gathering, talk inevitably gravitates towards how
to expand the market. Some suggest an industry-wide marketing blitz to
raise consumer awareness. Others call for innovative new . . .
The cost of shop lifting.(Industry Briefings)
U.S. retailers lost more than $40 billion to theft in 2006, which
equaled 1.6% of retail sales and was up $3 billion from 2005, according
to the National Retail Federation, a trade . . .
Wal-Mart says consumers want brands.(Industry Briefings)
Wal-Mart has been reducing the shelf space it allocates to private
label goods. While private label goods are theoretically attractive,
offering consumers lower prices and retailers higher margins, . . .
Musical diplomacy in North Korea.(Industry Briefings)(Concert
review)
The unprecedented concert of the New York Philharmonic in North
Korea on February 26 made the world's front pages the following
day, but in North Korea merited only brief mention in the main . . .
iTunes now number two music seller.(Industry Briefings)
iTunes is now the second-largest music retailer in the U.S., behind
Wal-Mart. The research firm NPD Group announced that Apple's
digital music store has jumped ahead of Best Buy to take the No. 2 . . .
Too many stores too few shoppers.(Industry Briefings)
The growth rate of personal consumption has declined for the third
year in a row through 2007, the first time that has happened since
consumption slowed for three straight years through 1991, . . .
Imports stabilize in 4th quarter.(IMPORT TRACKER: What's
Coming Into The U.S. And From Where?)
FULL-YEAR IMPORT DATA FOR MUSIC and audio products coming into the
U.S.A. point to some industry segments that are far outperforming the
economy at large and others that have clearly fallen victim . . .
Competition redefines in-store education.(LETTERS)(Letter to the
editor)
Having been in the organ business with multiple Hammond Organ store
locations on the North Shore of Boston, I would agree with Bob Popyk
that finding a niche or reinventing yourself with teaching . . .
Consistency in ranking methods required.(LETTERS)(Letter to the
editor)
In your most recent ranking of the Top 225 Global Music Products
firms [Dec. 2007] Roland Corporation was listed as the fourth largest
company with revenues of $495 million. A year ago [Dec. 2006), . . .
Hal Leonard's online sales.(10 YEARS AGO)
After two years of extensive development, Hal Leonard has taken the
first step towards making selections from its vast catalog available
online with a new service dubbed Sheet Music Direct that . . .
Running a teaching program.(25 YEARS AGO)
Tom Hughes of Tom's Music Center in Nebraska explains,
"Having a teaching studio is a lot like raising roses--you get
beautiful results but in the process you run into a lot of thorns. To
keep the . . .
The hottest news.(50 YEARS AGO)
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THE HOTTEST NEWS to come out of the NAMM show 25 years ago was the
introduction of the Yamaha DX-7. the first affordable all digital
musical instrument Overnight it became . . .
Truman takes organ lessons.(50 YEARS AGO)
In these days of his retirement, former President Harry S. Truman
has found himself an avocation which both eases off the strain of his
still intensely busy life and satisfies his longstanding . . .
75 years ago.(75 YEARS AGO)
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75 YEARS AGO school music programs had been in existence for less
than a decade and some were already predicting their imminent demise. In
a spirited call to action, . . .
Poor quality hurts industry.(75 YEARS AGO)
V.C. Squier of the Battle Creek, Michigan string making company
that bears his name, says, "Cheap merchandise is not profitable to
manufacture, nor to retail, and it is not wanted by the . . .
End of a tough year.(100 YEARS AGO)
The year 1907 will go down in business history as one characterized
by great disturbance, by considerable interruption of business, by
terrific shock to public confidence, by tremendous losses in . . .
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