Music Trades back issues from May 1999:
LETTERS.
May 01, 1999 ... THREE KINDS OF DEALERS AND THE DJ MARKET In November 1997 your Market Analysis documented the growth of the DJ Market. In March 1999 your editorial documents the fast growing "broad family of d.j. gear" and how the majority of baby boomers who run m.i. companies ...
QUARTERLY RETAIL SALES DATA.
May 01, 1999 ... The music business may not be chalking up the double and triple digit gains like internet retailers; however, the industry, for the recently completed first quarter ended March 30, posted a strong 4.9% gain over the same period last year. For the recent three month period, overall retail ...
INDUSTRY BRIEFINGS.
May 01, 1999 ... The Mozart Effect In Georgia In 1997 Zell Miller, then governor of Georgia, was at the hospital for the birth of his great-grandchild. "When my granddaughter was set to go home, she was given this huge bag of free samples ... diapers, wipes, baby formula," Miller relates. "All ...
ARE VOLUME DISCOUNTS DESTROYING THE INDUSTRY?
May 01, 1999; ... Veteran Retailer Jim Darby Argues That Price Differentials Create Unfair Competition And Undermine Efforts To Cultivate The Market OVER 30 YEARS AGO an unknown young man entered my store dragging an amplifier behind him. "Hello, I'm Hartley Peavey from Mississippi, and I make ...
ROLAND EXPANDS US OPERATIONS.
May 01, 1999 ... ROLAND CORPORATION U.S. is in the midst of a major expansion of its U.S. facilities. Late last year the company effectively doubled its warehouse capacity, moving into a new 125,000-square-foot facility in Commerce, California. As this issue is going to press, preparations are underway to ...
SCHIMMEL BUILDS $4.6 MILLION CABINET PLANT.
May 01, 1999 ... DELITZCH, A SUBURB OF Leipzig, Germany, is home to a modern new Schimmel woodworking factory. The 35,000-square-foot plant will employ 29 and produce and finish all case parts for Schimmel grand and vertical pianos. "This state-of-the-art woodworking facility will allow us to produce the ...
DRUM COUNCIL NAMES '99 "YEAR OF THE LEOPARD".
May 01, 1999 ... THE PERCUSSION Marketing Council (PMC) has announced that the drum industry's trade association has "adopted" the Fabulous Leopards percussion group and will be developing a series of programs to support and promote the group throughout the coming year. Created by third-grade teacher Diane ...
MDA Golf Tournament Named For Rene Schaller.
May 01, 1999 ... The Music Distributors Association (MDA) has renamed its annual convention golf tournament for Rene Schaller of Germany's Schaller Electronics. Schaller, a member of MDA, died in an automobile accident late last year. The tournament will now be known as "The Rene Schaller MDA Memorial Golf ...
Selmer's Tom Burzycki Elected President.
May 01, 1999 ... Selmer's Tom Burzycki Elected President Tom Burzycki of The Selmer Company was unanimously elected president of the National Council of Music Importers and Exporters (NCMIE) at the group's annual breakfast meeting during the NAMM show. Immediate Past President Hap Kuffner now ...
Erikson Music Named Canadian Distributor.
May 01, 1999 ... Erikson Music Named Canadian Distributor Erikson Music, a division of JAM Industries, has been appointed the new exclusive Canadian distributor for Marshall Amplification. Erikson has many years of experience in the Canadian music marketplace and is renowned for its excellent ...
AUDIO-TECHNICA ONE-DAY SALE AIDS CHARITIES.
May 01, 1999 ... AS PART OF ITS ONGOING support of charitable causes, Audio-Technica recently held its second One-Day Only Sale promotional event. Donating a portion of the proceeds to worthy charities, Audio-Technica pledged over $20,000 to the following non-profit organizations: The American Red Cross, ...
Distribution Agreements With Curnow, De Haske.
May 01, 1999 ... Distribution Agreements With Curnow, De Haske Hal Leonard has reached a distribution agreement with Curnow Music Press and De Haske Publications. The announcement was made by Paul Lavender, director of instrumental publications for Hal Leonard; James Curnow, president of Curnow ...
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD CHOSES CAD 90 MICS.
May 01, 1999 ... GRAND FUNK RAILROAD will be "coming to your town" armed with both its legendary American rock anthems and the CAD 90 dynamic cardioid microphone. Members of the veteran power-rock trio have chosen to tour using the CAD 90 because of its "superior sound quality, high output, and exceptional ...
International Distributors Tour Factory.
May 01, 1999 ... Ernie Ball/Music Mail treated its international distributors to California hospitality and sunshine during an inspiring three-day North American factory tour and training seminar January 31-February 3 at the company's San Luis Obispo, California, headquarters. Ernie Ball ...
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROVES PERFORMANCE AND DURABILITY OF KAWAI ABS ACTION PARTS.
May 01, 1999 ... NEARLY TWO DECADES AGO Kawai engineers took a cue from airplane designers who were starting to use carbon composite materials for the fabrication of parts subjected to harsh stress and fatigue. They reasoned that ABS styran, a composite carbon, would be ideal for high-stress piano action ...
PRO-MARK SPONSORS WINTER GUARD INTERNATIONAL.
May 01, 1999 ... PRO-MARK HAS BECOME an official sponsor of Winter Guard International (W.G.I.). Pat Brown, director of marketing at Pro-Mark, commented, "Pro-Mark has made a huge commitment to the marching activity over the last three years, becoming an official sponsor of both Drum Corps International ...
Independent Reps Honored at NAMM Show.
May 01, 1999 ... Littlite/CAE presented awards to a number of its top-performing independent representative firms during the NAMM Show in Los Angeles. The presentation was made by Fred Mikeska, sales manager at Littlite/CAE. Top honors went to Next Generation Marketing of Chicago, which netted ...
LICENSING AGREEMENT.
May 01, 1999 ... FENDER MUSICAL Instruments and BBE Sound, the parent company of G&L Guitars, have announced an historic agreement allowing Fender to use the name and likeness of the company's namesake on certain Fender products. A prolific inventor and tinkerer, Leo Fender founded Fender in the ...
ELECTROSWITCH SEEKS ACQUISITION OPPORTUNITIES.
May 01, 1999 ... ELECTROSWITCH ELECTRONIC Products, a leading manufacturer of electromechanical switches, is aggressively seeking to acquire a company to increase its current sales volume. The company, which is itself the result of the purchase of the switch divisions of Stackpole, CRL, Shallcross, and ...
HAEFLIGER, MEHLDAU JOIN STEINWAY ROSTER.
May 01, 1999 ... PIANISTS ANDREAS Haefliger and Brad Mehldau have joined the worldwide artist roster of Steinway & Sons. Andreas Haefliger continues to mesmerize audiences and critics in a career that spans several continents, appearing in extensive concerto and recital engagements in North ...
Company Spotlighted In Fortune Magazine.
May 01, 1999 ... QRS Music Technologies was featured in the March 15, 1999, issue of Fortune magazine. The half-page article in the national publication recognized the company for its innovative product line and for having the "nation's widest selection of self-playing instruments." Featuring ...
SOUND CHOICE REACHES PACT WITH ALLEGED COPYRIGHT INFRINGERS.
May 01, 1999 ... IN THE PAST SEVERAL months Sound Choice has entered into confidential settlement agreements for undisclosed amounts with several alleged infringers of Sound Choice's federally registered copyrights and trademarks. As a result of information provided to Sound Choice, karaoke ...
ALLEN ORGAN IN DEAL WITH LUCENT.
May 01, 1999 ... EASTERN RESEARCH, Inc., a subsidiary of the Allen Organ Company, has entered into an OEM agreement to supply Lucent Technology with its DACS digital communication interface. Michael Doyle, president of Eastern Research, ...
ACCOMPLISHED VIDEO TEAM FORMS HUDSON VIDEO.
May 01, 1999 ... ROB WALLIS AND PAUL SIEGEL, founders of DCI Music Video and the Drummers Collective and Bass Collective music schools in New York City, have announced the formation of Hudson Music, Ltd., a new publishing, video, and record production company. Following nearly 20 years of innovation and ...
Company Honored by Drummer Max Roach.
May 01, 1999 ... The Avedis Zildjian Company recently received a special musical tribute from drummer Max Roach in the form of a signed transcription of his famous 1958 composition, "Pies of Quincy." ("Pies" are cymbals, and in 1958 Zildjian was headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts.) The piece, written ...
MDA OPENS WEB SITE.
May 01, 1999 ... The Music Distributors Association (MDA) has announced the formal opening of its Internet Web site: http://www.musicdistributors.org. Paul Damiano, MDA president, commented, "Retailers can now visit our site and find all the information they need regarding musical instruments ...
KORG DISPLAYS TAKE TOP HONORS AT POP SHOW.
May 01, 1999 ... KORG U.S.A.'S D8 AND PX2 in-store displays were selected from over 800 contestants at the annual P-O-P (Point of Purchase) Show to win the Bronze "Design of the Times" Award in the Merchandising Display category. The annual P-O-P show, held in Chicago, is the largest event of its kind, and ...
Tacoma Guitars to Feature Elixir Strings.
May 01, 1999 ... W.L. Gore & Associates, maker of Elixir guitar strings, signed an agreement with Tacoma Guitars under which Tacoma will ship all of its acoustic guitars, basses, mandolins, and the new Papoose electric guitar with Elixir guitar strings; the agreement became effective February 1. ...
ALFRED TO DISTRIBUTE BOOSEY & HAWKES.
May 01, 1999 ... ALFRED PUBLISHING and Boosey & Hawkes have reached an agreement whereby Alfred would handle shipping and inventory for the prestigious U.K. print catalog. Alfred will pack, ship, and invoice all future Boosey & Hawkes print products out of its Utica, New York, distribution center. Boosey & ...
SAM ASH SET TO ACQUIRE THOROUGHBRED.
May 01, 1999 ... AS THIS ISSUE WENT TO PRESS, Sam Ash Music had signed a letter of intent to acquire Thoroughbred Music. With eight stores in Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Orlando, Florida, and Nashville, as well as a mail-order catalog, the Florida-based chain posted sales of $48.0 million last year. Guitar ...
Jonny Lang Draws 300 In Connecticut Store.
May 01, 1999 ... Jonny Lang Draws 300 In Connecticut Store The Daddy's Junky Music location in Orange, Connecticut, recently held a very special Meet & Greet with Interscope recording artist/Fender endorser Jonny Lang. Over 300 Jonny Lang fans started gathering outside Daddy's before the store ...
GUITAR CENTER & GIBSON PART WAYS.
May 01, 1999 ... IN A SURPRISING development, Gibson Guitar. one of the world's leading guitar makers, and Guitar Center, the largest music products retailer, have decided to terminate their business relationship. Guitar Center stores will no longer stock Gibson and Epiphone products. Separately, Gibson ...
Jeff Hamilton Trio Holds Rhythm Workshop.
May 01, 1999 ... Jeff Hamilton Trio Holds Rhythm Workshop The Jeff Hamilton Trio recently presented a rhythm section workshop and concert at Memphis Drum Shop in Memphis, Tennessee. The workshop was open to all musicians and featured each member of the trio explaining the role of his instrument ...
California Dealer Wins Pignose Contest.
May 01, 1999 ... California Dealer Wins Pignose Contest Longtime Berkeley, California, retailer Tupper & Reed is the winner of Pignose's Los Angeles NAMM "We'll Set You Up in Business" drawing. The drawing was held on the last day of the L.A. NAMM show in January, and awarded Tupper & Reed a ...
Steinway Sale Benefits Florida Orchestra.
May 01, 1999 ... Steinway Sale Benefits Florida Orchestra The Music Gallery of Clearwater, Florida, west central Florida's exclusive dealer for Steinway & Sons pianos, has donated $24,800 to The Florida Orchestra from the proceeds of its second annual Steinway & Sons Florida Orchestra Benefit ...
Buddy Shirk Named Marketing Manager.
May 01, 1999 ... Harold "Buddy" Shirk, an organist and pianist who has performed on national television as well as in numerous recording studios and churches, has been named marketing manager of Cooper Music of Atlanta, one of Georgia's largest and oldest piano dealers. Shirk, who served Cooper ...
SWEETWATER HOLDS LIVE NETCAST.
May 01, 1999 ... SWEETWATER SOUND hosted its first live Netcast on February 24. Sweetwater customers from all over the country logged on to the company's Web site to take part in Craig Anderton's featured seminar on digital mixing. The Netcast marks the first time a music dealer has invited its customers ...
Ann Erickson Wins Baldwin Promotion.
May 01, 1999 ... Ann Erickson Wins Baldwin Promotion Ann Erickson, a salesperson at Hamilton Music in Rochester, Minnesota, is the Grand Prize winner of Baldwin's "Test Drive a Baldwin" promotion. Her name was randomly selected by Baldwin CEO and President Karen Hendricks from nearly 700 contest ...
Craig, Thompson, And Theofilatos Join Sales Team.
May 01, 1999 ... Craig, Thompson, And Theofilatos Join Sales Team Sweetwater Sound, the direct-mail retailer, has added three sales engineers to its sales staff. Matthew Craig, Spiro Theofilatos, and Bill Thompson have joined the Sweetwater sales department with years of experience in electronic ...
BIGGER ISN'T BETTER BETTER IS BETTER.
May 01, 1999; ... Size Isn't Everything And Big Retailers Have Their Weak Spots ... A Few Thoughts On How To Exploit Them A BEST BUY STORE JUST opened in our town. Sears, Home Depot, and quite a few of the other "big box" stores have already been around here for a while. Every time a new one ...
NEW CHALLENGES FOR SCHOOL MUSIC.
May 01, 1999 ... Competing With Chain Stores, Coping With An Educator Shortage And Education Reform Topped The Agenda At NASMD In California WITH ROBUST SCHOOL budgets and surging student enrollment, the near-term prospects for the school music business remain bright; however, proposed ...
A NEW WAY TO MANAGE PRINT MUSIC.
May 01, 1999 ... AS LONG AS PRINT music has been sold. tracking thousands of individual titles has been a major retail headache. At this year's NASMD meeting, Steve Manus, vice-president of Alfred Publishing, unveiled a truly new approach to buying and managing print inventory. Alfred is proposing to ...
LESSONS IN STEEET FIGHTING OR, GET A BANG WITHOUT SPENDING BIG BUCKS.
May 01, 1999 ... THE GROWTH OF LARGE retail chains remains a major challenge for independent retailers. NASMD keynote speaker Jeff Slutsky addressed this issue in an entertaining session entitled "Being A Street Fighter in Today's Retail Business." "Street fighting is an attitude. It's a way of ...
BUILDING CUSTOMER LOYALTY.
May 01, 1999 ... "YOU DON'T OWN THE customer and you can't put walls around them in today's market," explained Steve Weingrod, a marketing consultant specializing in direct marketing. "If you want to keep your customers, you have to know more about them. The old retail paradigm was to open a store, fill it ...
THE INTERNET!
May 01, 1999 ... Amazing Technology Destined To Alter The Nature Of Commerce? Or The Biggest Hype Job Since The CB Radio .... A Look At The Most Talked About Phenomenon In A Decade And What It Means For The Products Industry It's been called bigger than the telephone and television put together ....
IS THIS WHAT FUTURE STORES WILL LOOK LIKE?
May 01, 1999 ... The Internet And Music Retailing, Who's Using It And How Type in the words "Music Store," and the America Online Internet search engine will turn up 2,187,543 sites. Narrow your search a little more to the words "Guitar Store," and AOL can only find 1,450,763 related sites. Type ...
INTERNET CASE STUDIES.
May 01, 1999 ... J.W. PEPPER Real Stories About How Retailers Are Putting The Internet To Work To Grow Their Business www.jwpepper.com Ten years ago, long before anyone outside of the Defense Department even knew about the Internet, J.W. Pepper management anticipated the ...
INTIMACY AND EFFICIENCY.
May 01, 1999 ... AN APRIL 9 EDITORIAL in The New York Times highlighted the efforts of Lyle Bowlin, an internet entrepreneur who hopes to compete selling books against Amazon.com from his bedroom in Iowa. Since being featured in the Time. Bowlin saw his daily hits surge to over 100,000 per day. ...
PRINT MUSIC & TECHNOLOGY.
May 01, 1999 ... AT FIRST GLANCE, THE PRINT MUSIC market seems only marginally affected by changing technology. After all, the print business still relies on applying ink to paper, a technology first pioneered by Gutenberg over 500 years ago. Take a closer look and you quickly realize that print is one of ...
VIDEOS TO JUMP START THE LEARNING PROCESS.
May 01, 1999 ... SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 40% and 60% of all new guitars end up in a closet or under a bed within six months. When Warner Brothers Publications explored this phenomenon with focus group research among failed guitarists, they heard a the same complaint over and over. "People told us that learning ...
INTERACTIVE CDS ... LEARNING SYSTEMS ON A DISK.
May 01, 1999 ... AT FIRST GLANCE, ALFRED'S new interactive CD/Music book combination looks like hundreds of other packages on the market. On closer analysis the disk proves to be an amazing educational tool, masquerading as a simple audio CD. When used in conjunction with a PC, Alfred's CDs offer the ...
A WORKABLE ELECTRONIC DELIVERY SYSTEM.
May 01, 1999 ... THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE facing manufacturers who attempt to sell online is not technological; "ecommerce" software and hardware solutions are readily available; rather, it's preventing a major turf battle. Suppliers who develop an online presence run the risk of losing the support of ...
A COMPLETE MUSIC LIBRARY ON A CD.
May 01, 1999 ... AT ITS MOST BASIC, the CD is a remarkably efficient means for storing vast quantities of audio, video, or text data. A new CD product offered by Mel Bay Publications, the International Print Edition Masters Collection, harnesses this "multi-media" storage capability to create an ...
PEOPLE.
May 01, 1999 ... LEADERSHIP CHANGE AT HOHNER Cotton New President And CEO, Mucha Named Chairman And Managing Director In Germany HORST MUCHA, PRESIDENT of Hohner Inc., U.S.A., announced his retirement as the company's chief executive officer effective April 1. Mucha, a veteran of the ...
GEMINI SOUND PROMOTES TIBERIO & LAINO.
May 01, 1999 ... GEMINI SOUND PRODUCTS has named J.P. Tiberio as senior vice-president/sales and marketing, and Robert Laino has been named international sales manager. In addition to directing Gemini's global marketing programs, Tiberio will oversee worldwide sales efforts and assist with ...
KORG UNVEILS N5EX MUSIC SYNTHESIZER.
May 01, 1999 ... KORG U.S.A. HAS INTRODUCED the 61-note N5EX, an expanded version of the company's popular N5 Synthesizer, priced the same as its predecessor. The new keyboard employs Korg's AI-2 Synthesis System, a technology used in many of the company's professional instruments, and provides 18Mb of PCM ...
DeArmond Guitars & Basses Now Available.
May 01, 1999 ... DeArmond Guitars & Basses Now Available Guild Guitars, a division of Fender, has announced the arrival of its new line of DeArmond guitars and basses in the U.S. market. The DeArmond brand of musical instrument pickups was purchased by Fender two years ago and then combined with ...
New Security Lock Cuts Cymbal Theft.
May 01, 1999 ... New Security Lock Cuts Cymbal Theft In response to dealer concerns about cymbal theft, Sabian has introduced a display-friendly Cymbal Security Lock. Specially designed for use with Sabian slatwall and cymbal tree displays and stamped with the Sabian name, these aluminum ...
HARTKE UNVEILS TWO NEW BASS HEADS.
May 01, 1999 ... Redefining the scope of modern bass amplification, the new Hartke HA4000 and HA3000 amps offer unprecedented sound-shaping and a wide range of interfacing options. The HA4000 produces 400 watts into four ohms and 220 watts into eight ohms. A special Shape circuit with a variable ...
""Duallist" Double Bass Pedal for One Foot.
May 01, 1999 ... ""Duallist" Double Bass Pedal for One Foot The MacRobert Corporation of Scotland has introduced "The Duallist," a double bass pedal for one foot. This innovative pedal features two beaters; one plays when the pedal is pressed down, the other plays when the pedal is up. Drummers ...
SoundMaster Heads Provide Performance.
May 01, 1999 ... SoundMaster Heads Provide Performance & Economy Remo's new class of drumheads, SoundMaster, is designed to offer premium performance at a mid-range price. SoundMaster heads are available in light, medium, and heavy, coated and uncoated. The models are made from the same classic ...
Silent Brass For Tuba.
May 01, 1999 ... Silent Brass For Tuba The Silent Brass for Tuba is the newest addition to the growing Silent Series of Yamaha instruments. The Silent Series offers musicians and composers the ability to practice and perform at any hour in complete privacy, using headphones, offering neighbors ...
SOUND CHOICE TO DISTRIBUTE RSQ KARAOKE MACHINES.
May 01, 1999 ... SOUND CHOICE Accompaniment Tracks and its distributors will now be endorsing the RSQ CGK-70 karaoke machine. Due to a limited supply of affordable, quality Compact Disc plus Graphics (CDG) compatible karaoke hardware for k.j.s and d.j.s, Sound Choice and its distributors have chosen to ...
JBL UNVEILS ENTRY LEVEL EON SPEAKER LINE.
May 01, 1999 ... JBL PROFESSIONAL introduced its EON1500 loudspeaker system at the recent Frankfurt Musikmesse. The system includes many of the features that have made JBL's EON Series extremely successful and will allow artists to integrate the power and performance of EON into existing systems. ...
Student Saxes Redesigned.
May 01, 1999 ... Student Saxes Redesigned Jupiter Band Instruments has announced major design changes to its 600 and 700 series alto and tenor saxophones. Through its ongoing R&D, Jupiter has recognized that many of the features found on professional-model saxophones could greatly increase the ...