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Jimmy Cypher
- Oral History
Jimmy Cypher is a vanguard guitarist who is forging a career of guitar performance with live DJ's in their environment.
Tony Blair
- Oral History
Tony Blair is the proud president of the Kay Musical Instrument Company, which has a long and important history in the music products industry.
Dominique Agnew
- Oral History
Dominique Agnew has been dedicated to the music industry, serving NAMM for over 25 years -- most notably as the Associate Director for Trade Show
R. Thomas Lockie
- Oral History
R. Thomas Lockie’s grandfather started a small music store in downtown Los Angeles in the 1920s.
Bob Sperzel
- Oral History
Bob Sperzel’s grandfather and father were both mechanical engineers working in their own shops creating machine parts for several industries.
Jerry Pellegrino
- Oral History
Jerry Pellegrino wanted to own a business ever since he was a kid, so when the opportunity arose to start his own music store, he jumped at the c
Barbara Paulsen
- Oral History
Barbara Paulsen is one of the joyous and passionate people our industry is lucky to have in great numbers.
Robert Palmer
- Oral History
Rob Palmer served as president of UMI (United Musical Instruments) in the final years of the company before the brands it manufactured were sold
Jackie Mills
- Oral History
Jackie Mills as a drummer put down the beat for jazz and big band stars such as Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Dizzy Gillespie and Billie Holiday.
Don Loeffler
- Oral History
Don Loeffler combined his love of music with his engineering skills to make several modifications to the percussion instruments he used throughou
Michael Kropp
- Oral History
Michael Kropp loved folk music for as far back as he could remember.
Thilo Kramny
- Oral History
Thilo Kramny is one of our industry’s creative minds that has established published material that has been innovative and resourceful for the mus
TK Keckler
- Oral History
TK Keckler moved to Memphis at an early age and began playing with local bands, which is when he met Mike Ladd.
Gez Kahan
- Oral History
Gez Kahan, on a whim, offered to be the musical director for his college’s production of Tommy.
Gabe Ireland
- Oral History
Gabe Ireland joined the Coast Wholesale Company while in high school.
Paul Freehling
- Oral History
Paul Freehling was brought up in the music retail business as the son of Art Freehling, the legendary music man of Montgomery, Alabama.
Maxine Eastman-Jackson
- Oral History
Maxine Eastman-Jackson met her future husband, Bud, in school when they were 14 years old.
Mervyn Davis
- Oral History
Mervyn Davis began working full time as a guitar luthier in 1978.
Paulo Caius
- Oral History
Paulo Caius played music as a child and enjoyed each chance he had to work with fellow musicians.
Monica Burdex
- Oral History
Monica Burdex grew up enjoying music of many styles and having a real interest in research and library science.
Robert Bromberg
- Oral History
Robert Bromberg has had a long career in the music products industry, as did his father.
Steve Oppenheimer
- Oral History
Steve Oppenheimer grew up playing music, as did his younger brother, known as Larry The O.
Crazy Pete Newport
- Oral History
Crazy Pete Newport began working at Breedlove Guitars in 1999 with the goal to help promote and market the product line.
John Nady
- Oral History
John Nady first began working on a wireless system for guitar in 1968 and debuted his Nasty Cordless product eight years later.
Don Middleton
- Oral History
Don Middleton taught music lessons around town before working for Billy Hill at Hill’s Music in 1967. A few months later Mr.
David McAllister
- Oral History
David McAllister grew up in Eastern Canada as a child of the 60s and 70s and a big fan of the music of the era.
John Mahlmann
- Oral History
John Mahlmann has been executive director of MENC: The National Association for Music Education since 1983.
Brian Kehew
- Oral History
Brian Kehew played a big role in the NAMM Foundation’s Museum of Making Music’s 2009-2010 Waves of Inspiration: The Legacy of Bob Moog exhibit,
Jonathan Lipp
- Oral History
Jonathan Lipp formed a recording studio, which by 1977 turned into a pro audio distribution company he called Full Compass.
Susan Lipp
- Oral History
Susan Lipp has a background in the theater, which she has used to great success in running the pro-audio distribution company Full Compass.