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Article: The guitar industry's debt to Mel Bay. (includes related article on Mel Bay)
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- Music Trades
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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With Over 8 Million Copies In Print, The Modern Guitar Method Taught A Generation How To Play And Illustrates The Tremendous Power Of Print
Addressing a convention of music educators in 1954, Mel Bay predicted that the guitar would emerge as "an important bulwark of the music world." To a group of horn players steeped in the big band tradition, such a statement seemed outlandish, and a man sitting in the back row blurted out, "Mr. Bay, I think you'll see a man walk on the moon and Mississippi vote Republican before the guitar comes to the forefront." Reflecting on that meeting today, Bay smiles and says, "There's been a man on the moon and Mississippi is Republican, ...