Features: Feature

March 26, 2021

Guitar Booms

The biggest trend in guitars over the past year has been simply how well they’ve been selling. Suppliers express confidence that any guitar they make right…

December 16, 2020

Can’t Even Call it a Curve Ball

Retailers called Yamaha a “true vendor partner” through the pandemic. Yamaha Corp. of America Corporate Vice President Garth Gilman said this praise coming…

December 16, 2020

Tilling The Soil

Retailers polled for this year’s Supplier Excellence Awards called Fender “a machine run by good people,” and praised the guitar giant for having the…

December 16, 2020

Back In A Better Way

Retailers polled for the Supplier Excellence Awards praised D’Addario for doing so much, so well during troubled times. But its CEO John D’Addario III still…

December 15, 2020

Continuing Communication

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way musicians record music. While many digital music product manufacturers have reported seeing a shift away from sales in…

December 08, 2020

Dealer Dedication

Like many manufacturers who have operations in China, Eastman Music felt the effects of the pandemic hit much earlier. The virus forced the B&O and guitar…

December 03, 2020

At a Crossroads

While Tommy Colletti is honored that his business, The Music Zoo in Farmingdale, New York, has been included as part of Music Inc.’s Retail Excellence Awards,…

December 02, 2020

Weathering the Storm

Founded in 1906 in Pittsburgh, Cooper Piano has faced it all: the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, World War II and now the coronavirus pandemic. In 1977,…