Tag: current-issue
Ways To Profit As Customers ‘GET SMART’
By David Hall, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Cutting-Edge Solutions It’s interesting to see how smartphone use has affected sales for brick-and-mortar dealers. Many feel that it’s starting to hurt their businesses. Customers come into your store, examine your products, play your instruments and then shop online for cheaper prices. But for every negative, there’s [...]
Sound That Sparkles
Overview: Sonor’s Red Galaxy Sparkle Finish Specifics: Sonor’s Safari and Bop kits are now available in a new Red Galaxy Sparkle finish. The Safari kit is a more affordable version of the Sonor Jungle Kit, offering compact size with uncompromised sound. This shell pack includes a 16”x16” bass drum with riser, a 10”x8” tom with [...]
In Memoriam: Gary E. Wallace
Gary E. Wallace, an industry veteran and professional musician, died suddenly on July 14. He was 59 years old and is survived by his beloved wife, Tammy Robinson-Wallace. Born and raised in St. Louis MO, Wallace toured the U.S. in his earlier years, playing sizzling, high register trumpet in a number of pop/rock/funk and show [...]
Drumming Up Sales
Drum And Percussion Manufacturers Weather Economic Storms By Michelle Loeb If you take a slow economic recovery, mix it with a European debt crisis and then add a pinch of presidential election uncertainty, what do you have? It’s a recipe for instability that’s affecting all markets, including MI. The Music & Sound Retailer spoke to [...]
In Memoriam: Eddy Shenker
Jam Industries Ltd. has announced the death of Eddy Shenker, Co-Chairman and partner in the company since 1974. He died on June 11 after a short battle with cancer. After graduating from Concordia University with a commerce degree, he went on to McGill while articling with Ernst & Young to become a Chartered Accountant (CPA). [...]
Summer NAMM Hugely Successful For iMSO
This might have been the best Summer NAMM to date for iMSO members. The evening of July 10 (before Summer NAMM), MIRC hosted about 35 iMSO members at its facility. Members were treated to a full factory tour, great barbecue and time to hand-select inventory from MIRC’s 14,000-plus guitars. The morning of July 11, independent [...]
QSC Audio Launches QSCtraining.com
QSC Audio Products has launched QSCtraining.com, a Web site that offers an interactive look into the products and technologies that make QSC products a desirable choice among professional customers. QSCtraining.com features training courses and product presentations, as well as instructional videos and podcasts, created to assist customers all over the world with the latest information [...]
Spinning Faster Than A Turntable
DJ And Lighting Retailers Adjust To Changing Technologies, Roiling Economy By Brian Berk Smartphones. iPads. Even mobile wallet payments at retail stores. New technologies have left quite the impression in the past couple of years. Technology has definitely affected what some would refer to as the music products industry’s most hip niche: DJ and lighting [...]
Rays of Hope
Summer NAMM Strengthens, But 2013 Is The Real Test By Dan Ferrisi Music City was rocking and rolling in July as it welcomed thousands upon thousands of music products retailers, manufacturers, distributors, reps and players to the Nashville Convention Center for Summer NAMM, the gigantic winter show’s smaller, yet still beloved, sibling. The Music & [...]
AMP IT UP!
The Speaker And Amp Segments Continue to Evolve, Innovate By Dan Ferrisi A guitarist can make his ax wail, a bassist can deliver the thump that perfectly anchors a song and the vocalist can play the audience as though it were an instrument—causing us to rise and slump based on his or her powerful lyrics [...]
