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Essential Purchasing Tips
- NAMM U Post
Most of us wouldn’t think about walking out of a retail store without our receipt, yet when it comes to your business, do you know exactly what you’re spending...
How To Use Mobile Marketing To Drive Sales in 2013
- NAMM U Post
Mobile marketing continues to expand (predicted to be a $30 billion industry by 2015!), yet many brands and retailers of all sizes still have not embraced it.
Successful Tips from a Top 100 Dealer
- NAMM U Post
NAMM's Top 100 Dealer Awards have highlighted many top-performing, innovative retailers. The Candyman Strings & Things was one of these stores that shined...
Joe Lindner
- Oral History
Joe Lindner has a real passion for playing and teaching music. He gives lessons, mostly on drums and guitar, in his parents’ music store, Lindne
Bill Robinson
- Oral History
Bill Robinson began working in the music industry when he was in his 20s. His high school friend opened a music store after graduation and hired
Shelly Morris
- Oral History
Shelly Morris was a school music teacher before she decided to open a music store. She always loved the small town feeling of Sheridan, Wyoming,
Rod Lindner
- Oral History
Rod Lindner and his wife Sally truly own and operate a mom and pop music store. They have no employees, so when they are sick or out of town, th
Ralph Goldheim
- Oral History
Ralph Goldheim worked in music retail before jumping the counter and exploring a career in manufacturing. He worked with George Luther for sever
Stu Goldberg
- Oral History
Stu Goldberg established Marina Music in San Francisco at the beginning of the guitar boom. The folk music craze was in full swing and the Beatl
NAMM Foundation Invites Music Teachers and School Administrators to Attend "Music Education Days" at the 2013 NAMM Show
- Press Release
The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) invites music educators and school administrators from across the country to Anaheim, Calif.
Katie Wheeler
- Oral History
Katie Wheeler was an early volunteer of the NAMM Foundation’s Museum of Making Music in the NAMM headquarters in Carlsbad, California. Her docen
Dave Weiderman
- Oral History
Dave Weiderman was raised in a family with a great love of music. Dave’s father owned a music store in Chicago, where Dave was able to meet some
Andy Powers
- Oral History
Andy Powers began working with wood as a kid and soon realized he had a strong interest in building. With the guidance of his father and the use
Tim Luranc
- Oral History
Tim Luranc grew up in San Diego with his father, an educator, playing music in the house all of the time. His dad wanted to play a guitar with s
Gene Joly
- Oral History
Gene Joly is a well respected leader within the industry who has mentored many young employees who have developed within their own careers as wel
David Hosler
- Oral History
David Hosler had a friend in school whose father had a wood-working shop. It was in that small shop where David built his first guitar and where his passion...
Mary Ann Eckroth
- Oral History
Mary Ann Eckroth quietly sat behind the desk working on the books while her husband Bill traveled to the local schools to help the band directors
Bill Eckroth
- Oral History
Bill Eckroth enjoyed being a band director in his home town of Mandan, North Dakota, just across the Missouri River from Bismarck. He started ou
Don Bindrim
- Oral History
Don Bindrim is the owner of Tooters Music store in Cleveland, Tennessee. The store focuses on band and orchestra instruments with a strong focus
Finalists Announced In 12th Annual FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands
- Press Release
Get ready to see executives strumming guitars and belting out lyrics to an audience of hundreds of rock enthusiasts.
Lamont Dozier
- Oral History
Lamont Dozier was one of the most successful songwriters in popular music history. From 1962-1967 he teamed with Brian and Eddy Holland to write
Brooks Arthur
- Oral History
Brooks Arthur began singing as an early age, and in fact began taking lessons to sing in his temple before he was a teenager. While working in t
Allan Clark
- Oral History
Allan Clark began taking training classes as a volunteer docent right when the NAMM Foundation’s Museum of Making Music was opened to the public
Eddie Kramer
- Oral History
Eddie Kramer is perhaps best known as the recording engineer for Jimi Hendrix, but he also worked for the Beatles and countless other performers
Music Making Helps Boomers Stay In the Groove
- Press Release
With growing research evidence supporting music’s beneficial impact on the brain, leading advocates for healthy aging are encouraging past and present...
WT Warmoth
- Oral History
WT Warmoth is currently an Industrial Design major at Savannah College of Art & Design and has dreams of becoming a guitar luthier. As the s
William Warmoth
- Oral History
William Warmoth and his wife Ellen opened a small guitar shop in Franklin, Tennessee, with the dream of providing acoustic guitars to music maker
Ellen Warmoth
- Oral History
Ellen Warmoth and her husband, William, created a true “Mom and Pop” music store when they opened Artisan Guitars in Franklin, Tennessee, not far
Dave Miller
- Oral History
Dave Miller was just 14 years old when he cut grass for a summer to pay off a neighbor for their old guitar. He and his friends would hang out a
Chris White
- Oral History
Chris White is the president of White House of Music, with multiple locations in Wisconsin. The full line store has a very strong band and orche