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5 New Things You Must Know About Instagram
- NAMM U Post
If you’re using Instagram for your business in the same old way, you’re missing out!
7 Ways to Supercharge Your Lesson Program
- NAMM U Post
Get more lesson sign-ups, increase retention and improve your lesson operations—all while boosting add-on sales in your retail business.
Breakfast of Champions
- NAMM U Post
In the near future, 70 percent of the population will be walking around with a super-computer in their pockets; the sharing economy will upend the very concept...
The 20 Dumbest Things Music Retailers Do
- NAMM U Post
Are you a veteran music retailer or new to the business? Financial gurus Alan Friedman and Daniel Jobe of Friedman, Kannenberg & Co. say it doesn’t matter—...
Aerosmith’s Co-Founding Member & Lead Guitarist Joe Perry to Receive Les Paul Award at 32nd Annual NAMM TEC Awards
- Press Release
As part of its 32nd Annual NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards (NAMM TEC Aw
How We Grew Our Business With YouTube
- NAMM U Post
In just three years, Carter Vintage Guitars has grown into a $6 million indie retail powerhouse. Find out how YouTube and video marketing played a role in...
Dante Spoken Here: Dante Training Program to be Offered at The 2017 NAMM Show
- Press Release
Demonstrating a continued commitment to serve its community of professional audio members and attendees, The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) has...
John Blair
- Oral History
John Blair grew up during the first wave of the Surf Music craze in America during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Peter Asher
- Oral History
Peter Asher teamed with his school friend, Gordon Waller, to form the group Peter and Gordon.
Jeff Shrieve
- Oral History
Jeff Shrieve was playing drums in a rock band during the 1960s when he was offered a job at Muncie Music Center.
Joan White
- Oral History
Joan White began her career with Muncie Music Center in 1944, just three years after the store opened.
Dave Helms
- Oral History
Dave Helms is the owner of Muncie Music Center.
Larry McWilliams
- Oral History
Larry McWilliams developed the jazz program at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He joined the faculty in 1970 and soon organized a jazz
Jim Swearingen
- Oral History
Jim Swearingen began composing for his students.
Vaughn Wiester
- Oral History
Vaughn Wiester recalls the day he played with the Woody Herman band for the first time.
Christopher Weait
- Oral History
Christopher Weait attended Potsdam's music program in the late 1950s, the same time as John O'Reilly and Sandy Feldstein.
Robert Gillespie
- Oral History
Robert Gillespie was teaching at Ohio State University in the music department when he developed and hosted a summer workshop for violin teachers
John Trakas
- Oral History
John Trakas was hired by Ziggy Coyle to serve in the store's accounting department.
Russell Hill
- Oral History
Russell Hill first met Ziggy Coyle in 1957 when the famed retailer hired Russ to help with the business side of the company.
Phyllis Snedeker
- Oral History
Phyllis Snedeker has worked for Stanton's Sheet Music Service since the 1960s and was still at work several days a week in 2016 when she was inte
John Stavash
- Oral History
John Stavish and his sister took over the music company their parents established in the early 1950s. John recalls the first milestone of the business was...
Rick Roth
- Oral History
Rick Roth will greet you with a warm smile when you enter Stebal Drum Shop outside of Cleveland, Ohio.
Jim Anastasi
- Oral History
Jim Anastasi served as the trumpet tester for the King Band Instrument factory in Cleveland, Ohio for nearly 40 years.
John Stebal
- Oral History
John Stebal owns the Stebal Drum shop outside of Cleveland, Ohio. The store was originally called Stebal Music when his father opened it.
Richard King
- Oral History
Richard King is a principal French horn player for the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra.
Hans Clebsch
- Oral History
Hans Clebsch began playing French Horn for the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra in 1996.
Mark Gifford
- Oral History
Mark Gifford was a band instrument repairman before he joined the King Band Instrument Company, now known as Conn-Selmer.
Dave Woodruff
- Oral History
Dave Woodruff began working for King Band Instruments right out of college.
Pete Cumming
- Oral History
Pete Cumming began playing a King trombone as a student, never dreaming he would one day work for the company. Growing up outside of Cleveland,
Theodore Johnson
- Oral History
Theodore Johnson was playing in the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra when he began to think of ideas that would improve his clarinet's mouthpiece.