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Joe Cardinale
- Oral History
Joe Cardinale played jazz bass in clubs and theaters all around New England. He created his own trio and studied at what would be Berklee College of Music. He...
Dave Brubeck
- Oral History
Dave Brubeck played Baldwin Pianos for most of his long career. As a classically trained performer, he added poly-rhythmic concepts to jazz.
John Boylan
- Oral History
John Boylan is best known as a hit-making record producer working with Charlie Daniels, Linda Ronstadt, Boston and the Little River Band.
Kevin Bowe
- Oral History
Kevin Bowe, a native of Minnesota, began playing guitar and writing songs for the rock and punk talent coming out of the Midwest in the 1980s and
George Borun
- Oral History
George Borun began his luthier endeavors as a hobby and soon found himself enthralled with the angles, the woods and the tools of the trade.
Bruce Bolen
- Oral History
Bruce Bolen has had a long and colorful career in the music industry spanning nearly 50 years and with two of the best-known guitar makers in the
Ingbert Bluthner
- Oral History
Ingbert Bluthner followed in the rich history of his family tradition of building world-class pianos.
Brady Blade
- Oral History
Brady Blade was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, to the pastor of the Zion Baptist Church, Rev. Brady Blade Sr. and his wife Dorothy.
Rob Birenbaum
- Oral History
Rob Birenbaum has always had a love for percussion.
Paul Bierley
- Oral History
Paul Bierley was a leading expert and author on the life and music of John Philip Sousa.
Arnold Berlin
- Oral History
Arnold Berlin was a one-time president of Chicago Musical Instruments (CMI) and co-founder of Norlin Music Corp. He is also Mr. M.H. Berlin’s son, one of the...
Rich Berger
- Oral History
Richard Berger is the President of Grover Musical Products.
Irwin Berg
- Oral History
Irwin Berg has a million great stories, like the one when Glenn Miller ensured that his father not serve in the infantry during World War II, but
Gerhilde Benker
- Oral History
Gerhilde Benker served as president of Hofner Music, a firm founded by her grandfather Karl Hofner in 1864 in Eger, Germany.
Christian Benker
- Oral History
Christian Benker has been an influential leader in the German musical instrument manufacturing industry. With fresh ideas and marketing skills he helped Hofner...
Scott Baxendale
- Oral History
Scott Baxendale is a noted guitar luthier who has crafted a unique career based on his own style of guitar building that echoes several of his favorite...
Winfried Baumbach
- Oral History
Winfried Baumbach came to represent the German musical instrument industry beginning in the 1980s.
Dave Bartholomew
- Oral History
Dave Bartholomew was a noted bandleader, trumpeter, and songwriter who captured a pioneering sound known as the “big beat” of rock and roll.
Kyle Barker
- Oral History
Kyle Barker began working in the piano retail industry in 1969 when the Sherman & Clay Piano Company in Northern California hired him.
Tom Baker
- Oral History
Tom Baker began his career in the industry at Menchey Music outside of York, Pennsylvania, where he developed and managed the sheet music department. After 30...
Emile Baran
- Oral History
Emile Baran began a music retail business that led to the opportunity for expanding into the music wholesale business.
Rosemary Bailey
- Oral History
Rosemary Bailey was ten years old when she was hired by Hammond as a concert artist.
Dennis Awe
- Oral History
Dennis Awe is passionate about the organ! As a recording artist he has performed on many products, endorsing the Lowrey Organ for many decades.
Robert Averwater
- Oral History
Robert Averwater’s father, M. J.
Billy Ashbaugh
- Oral History
Billy Ashbaugh remembers with a smile his first drum kit as a kid and the desire to play professionally almost from the very beginning.
Tim Angell
- Oral History
Tim Angell grew up interested in the craft of woodworking. As a teenager he became interested in stringed instruments.
Hans-Jorg Andre
- Oral History
Hans-Jorg Andre’s great great grandfather formed Musikhaus Andre Musikverlag Johann Andre in 1774.
Whispering Bill Anderson
- Oral History
Whispering Bill Anderson began his music career as a songwriter penning the 1958 hit “City Lights” for Ray Price.
Muriel Anderson
- Oral History
Muriel Anderson sure puts her heart and soul into her music as both a performer and songwriter.
Kurt Anderson
- Oral History
Kurt Anderson, along with his sister and brother, took over the music publishing company formed by their parents and more importantly kept the fl