Joel Menchey

Oral History Information

Interview Date
Job Title
President
Company Name
Menchey Music Service
Tags
NAMM Board of Directors-Interviewed, High School Band, RPMDA (Retail Print Music Distributors Association), Music Retail, NASMD (National Association of School Music Dealers), Band and Orchestra, Pennsylvania, Elementary School Bands, Menchey Music, NAMM Former Chair, Pandemic of 2020, Joe Lamond, John Mlynczak, Multiple Interviews

Joel Menchey is the president of Menchey Music Service, a Hanover, Pennsylvania, based retail store established by his grandfather in 1936. Joel has been very active within the industry serving on boards and committees for such organizations as NASMD, RPMDA, and NAMM. For NAMM, Joel served on the Board of Directors, The Executive Committee, and as Chairman of the NAMM Board beginning in 2021. Joel, himself a music maker, can be heard playing guitar and singing at industry events with the same passion he approaches his business, after all a passion for music is a passion for music!