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Reverb.com Success Tips From the Top (2016 Summer NAMM)
- NAMM U Post
David Kalt, founder of the online buying and selling platform Reverb.com, stopped by the “NAMM Retail Summit” at 2016 Summer NAMM. There, he shared what he...
5 Steps to Building Your Retail Dream Team
- NAMM U Post
We all want our sales staff to perform like a finely tuned team of superstars. The hard part is motivating them so they produce consistent results. Here, Liz...
Michael Simmons
- Oral History
Michael Simmons is a co-founder of the Fretboard Journal and the author of several articles and books about vintage guitars and other fretted ins
Richard Johnston
- Oral History
Richard Johnston began buying and selling used fretted instruments long before there was a "vintage guitar market." Back when Richard started th
Frank Ford
- Oral History
Frank Ford was beginning to build guitars and mandolins when he met Richard Johnston.
Andy Penn
- Oral History
Andy Penn opened one of the first music stores dedicated to drums and percussion in Northern California. As a drummer he wants to create a place
Paul Shuffield
- Oral History
Paul Shuffield opened a small mom and pop music retail store with his wife in 2008, just a few weeks before the bottom fell out of the American e
Summer NAMM Provides Music and Sound Industry a Robust Platform for Business and Illuminates Strategies for Successful Second Half of Year
- Press Release
The 2016 Summer NAMM show returned last week to Music City Center in Nashville, offering a robust platform for buyers, exhibitors and professionals to engage...
Daily Tools for covering Summer NAMM - Saturday, June 25 (Music Industry Day)
- Press Release
TODAY'S NOTABLE EVENTS:
Best in Show, Breakfast Session
NAMM Headliner: Craig Wayne Boyd
American Eagle Awards
NAMM Congratulates the Top 100 Dealers and Recognizes the “Best Of” Award Winners
- Press Release
Earlier this evening at the Summer NAMM Show, NAMM honored the Top 100 Dealers and recognized seven with special category awards, including the coveted Dealer...
MAKE MUSIC DAY 2016 TO BE CELEBRATED IN 38+ U.S. CITIES ON JUNE 21, BRINGING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE TOGETHER TO MAKE AND ENJOY MUSIC
- Press Release
Make Music Day, the annual global celebration featuring more than 3,000 free, outdoor music making events in the United States, returns tomorrow – June 21.
Perry Pedersen
- Oral History
Perry Pedersen is a full blooded Basset Hound, who has been a show dog for several years. His role in the music industry started when he began j
Forest Legality Alliance Newsletter
- Issues and Advocacy
Forest Legality Alliance's June 2016 newsletter is now available.
Music City Gets An Audio Education at Summer NAMM 2016
- Press Release
At the Summer NAMM Show, held June 23-25 at Nashville’s Music City Center, the professional recording sector will gather for three days of high-end training.
The NAMM Foundation Grants $600k to Music Education Programs
- Press Release
The NAMM Foundation has announced that through the remainder of 2016, the organization will make $600,000 in grants to 18 music education programs.
Ed Seelig
- Oral History
Ed Seelig opened a small guitar shop when he was a teenager, having already made connections within the concert circuit selling used gear to trav
Reiff Lorenz
- Oral History
Reiff Lorenz grew up in the music publishing business and, like his father and grandfather, Reiff is happy and proud to carry on the family tradi
Ed Stasium
- Oral History
Ed Stasium, the producer and engineer, started out his career in the music industry performing with the Band Brandywine in the early 70’s.
Nedra Pedersen
- Oral History
Nedra Pedersen grew up playing French horn and studying all areas of music. She landed a job in the publishing side of Disney and worked with Ha
John Pedersen
- Oral History
John Pedersen, the founder of Pedersen's Band & Orchestra in Burbank, California, began his career with a small instrument repair shop. The
Mitch Holder
- Oral History
Mitch Holder is among the legendary Los Angeles recording studio musicians known for playing all styles of music.
Ted Kraut
- Oral History
Ted Kraut loves teaching guitar! It's in his blood and very evident to anyone who talks to Ted for over a minute.
Ray Scherr
- Oral History
Ray Scherr was hired by Wayne Mitchell, the founder of Guitar Center, to help strengthen and develop the small store. Ray added the culture and
Alexander Pietschmann
- Oral History
Alexander Pietschmann is CEO of Adam Hall. His dad, a professional musician works for Adam Hall as a salesman.
David Kirby
- Oral History
David Kirby, originally from England, started out as a professional musician touring in Germany in the mid 70’s.
Markus Jahnel
- Oral History
Markus Jahnel, COO of Adam Hall started out working for the company when he was 15 years old.
Siggi Jäger
- Oral History
Siggi Jäger is a founder of Human Base. He specializes in hand crafting bass guitars.
Petra Woodfull-Harris
- Oral History
Petra Woodfull-Harris recalls taking lessons on the recorder at the age of six, followed by the piano three years later. She enjoyed the idea of
John Tumpak
- Oral History
John Tumpak is the author and music historian who has focused most of his writings on the golden age of swing during the Big Band Era of the 1930
Allan Rosenthal
- Oral History
Allan Rosenthal has served as NAMM’s Certified Public Accountant beginning in the 1980s, when the trade association moved its headquarters from C