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Shiro Arai

Shiro Arai is the founder of Aria Guitars, a Japanese electric guitar company that gained great international success in the wake of the Beatles...

Lee Berk

Lee Berk’s father had a unique idea in teaching music, bringing the passion and fun of music making into the classroom. The Berklee School of...

Lennie DiMuzio

Lennie Di Muzio was told for years that he ought to write a book about his career and his many stories, so he did! Lennie was the artist relations...

Marshall Hawkins

Marshall Hawkins was the first African American to lead a US Navy band. He was also the first African American to serve not once, but four times, as...

Helga Kasimoff

Helga Kasimoff and her husband established the Bluthner piano dealership in Pasadena, California in 1963. Since that time many Blüthner grand...

Rob Walker

Rob Walker has been a leader in the global music products marketing that seemed to shift into high gear in the mid ‘90s when he was CEO of...

NAMM 2010 Industry Tribute

A tribute to the members of our industry who passed in 2009.

Yoshiharu Abe

Yoshiharu Abe is known as the father of personal multi-track recording in the audio engineering field. He was one of the five founders of...

David Abell

David L. Abell formed his piano retail store in Beverly Hills back in the late 1950s. Since that time he has established one of the...

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