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High End Piano Guy at NAMM
I’m giving a presentation at NAMM this year in LOUNGE 88, in the piano area. Here’s the link NAMM is, as you probably know, the big musical instrument/products industry trade show, held in Anaheim California, every January. Continue reading
2010 NAMM part 1 – Overview
NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) is the big musical instrument industry trade show. Technically it’s held twice a year, but the big show is every January in Anaheim, California. Anybody and everybody connected with the musical products industry shows … Continue reading
2010 NAMM part 2 Bösendorfer
Bosendorfer, in the past, has used NAMM to show some beautiful examples of our cabinet design skills and veneer work. However with business being slow and space smaller, it made more sense to show instruments that have more immediate sales … Continue reading
2010 NAMM part 3 Yamaha CFX
Yamaha has had a high end “craft built” line for a number of years and has been a very serious builder of concert pianos for decades. The concert grand, the CFIII (CF3) has undergone a number of iterations and experiments, … Continue reading
2010 NAMM part 4 – Bösendorfer and Yamaha
So now you have a major Japanese piano maker with a proven high end approach owning and taking marketing and sales responsibility for a 180 year old Austrian maker of what is generally referred to as one of the worlds … Continue reading
NAMM 2009
Namm has come and gone. We did something completely different this year by not showing at NAMM in our customary large booth with nice lighting, Viennese coffee and champagne. Instead we hosted our dealers at the very nice Le Merigot … Continue reading
NAMM Notes part 1
It’s been a busy January. The big annual Musical Instrument Industry trade show NAMM descended on us again, as usual at the Anaheim Convention center outside Los Angeles. I don’t have hard numbers but traffic seemed definitely down…hey, it’s been … Continue reading