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merchandise for top brands, Bigsby® Vibratos and Sho-Bud® Pedal Steel Guitars. The BIGSBY® exhibit will showcase vintage-style vibratos and bridges originally designed and made famous by founder Paul Bigsby half a century ago. On display will be a variety of handassembled vibratos in addition to die cast licensed models. Bigsby also has several pre-packaged vibrato kits in full-color boxes ready for retail display. Daily installation performance demonstrations are planned. Booth #700 Veritas instrument Rental, inc. Veritas Instrument Rental offers a unique opportunity to establish (or recapture) a profitable band and orchestra instrument rental program through an exclusive affiliation. Inventory, marketing and collections are provided with no startup cost. Territories nationwide are available. Call, visit us at Booth #819 or go to www.veritas-online.com. Warehouse Guitar Speakers hal Leonard Corp. Thousands of songbooks, instructional publications and DVDs, featuring new releases in the Harmonica Play-Along series; new Rock Band collections available for Drum Recorded Versions, Bass Recorded Versions, Bass Play-Along series, Drum PlayAlong series, and Guitar Play-Along series; Guitar Hero 3 in the Guitar Recorded Versions series; The Real Book Staff Paper; The Real Book Volume 1 – Sixth Edition for C Instruments; new artist, Broadway, and movie collections; and more. Booth #1018 WGS provides high-quality upgrade speakers for guitar cabinets at outstanding prices. Our speakers are assembled in the U.S.A. using high-quality components. Custom basket colors are available. Come hear the Black & Blue; it’s the most outstanding alnico speaker ever made! Booth #2028 Wyman Piano Company Mid-East Mfg. inc. See the new state-of-the-art Wyman CD2 Player Piano System. It will play multiple CD and file formats and features an internal music library up to 8 GB and unlimited external file storage using USB ports. It is factory installed for assurance of quality and affordability. Booth #745 New line of handmade Turkish cymbals: “RAW” series and “Classic” series. These cymbals cover from rock to jazz. Booth #1144 Z Right Stuff, inc. Onori accessories New Kalynn Campbell guitar-strap designs. New suede Christian guitar strap. Booth #1328 First-time exhibitor Z Right Stuff will be showing its Z-Bar™ amplifier miking bracket. The Z-Bar is a great alternative to conventional mic stands, suspending the microphone directly from a guitar amp. Long favored by touring sound companies and guitarists, the Z-Bar is now available in hangtag packaging for retail display. Booth #216 Peak Music Stand D-12—the Dome Guitar Stand—the most innovative shape in the market. This stand is able to support a guitar on a wall or sit upright for the floor shows. Other new products include violin stands and banjo stands! Booth #721 NaMM uNiVERSiTy SESSiONS NAMM University is proud to offer the ever-popular free Breakfast Sessions each morning in the Grand Ballrooms of the Renaissance Nashville Hotel. This year, we will discuss the State of the Industry on Friday morning, learn what makes Guerrilla Retailing so successful on Saturday morning and hear the scoop about all the hottest products in the Best in Show session on Sunday morning. Once the show floor opens, the NAMM Idea Center (Booth #837) will host a series of short, focused sessions starting every 30 minutes. These sessions are designed to share the industry’s best practices—proven promotions, techniques and strategies that are working for NAMM Members in the current economy. Topics are organized into six main categories: Sales/Marketing, Lessons, Retail Ideas, Store Design, e-Commerce/Web and Music Education. All NAMM U sessions are loaded with great business-building ideas that you can put to use right away. Catch as many as you can and take the opportunity to learn what is—and isn’t—working in retail stores today. Reverend Musical instruments Reverend Guitars will debut new features: Bolt-On series now has black headstocks, Set-Neck series has neck binding and block inlays. All feature new Reverend Pin-Lock tuners, which use a thumbwheel locking mechanism underneath. Also new: Roundhouse RT, a single cutaway with two RevTron pickups. Booth #1429 SaBiaN Ltd. All the latest SABIAN releases, including the APX cymbal series with “high-decibel” design and models including Solid and O-Zone, the Vault Crossover Ride and Fierce Hats, the Chopper, Alu Bells and the newly renamed HH (formerly Hand Hammered) cymbal series and Vault expansion (with signature models). Booth #708 Santa Cruz Guitar Co. New SCGC Signature models! Richard Hoover Private Stock H-13 42 style. Booth #1211 Southland Music distributors, inc. 2008 Summer NAMM marks the return of a famous name in distribution—Southland. Southland Music Distributors is prepared to offer dealers fast and friendly service. We feature our own STANZ, Audio Geek, Guitar Geek and Vee Strap brands, as well as favorites like Dean Markley, Shubb and Grover. Booth #1140 T.G., inc. T.G., Inc. will be introducing the Tregan Guitars Ronny North Signature Guitar featuring the new Ronny North Hand Wound Monster Tone pickups. Booth #1436 4 PLAYBACK SUPPLEMENT Information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. http://www.veritas-online.com

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Playback - Spring 2008 Contents From the President NAMM Events Music in the News The Local Community Music Store: A Family Affair Commercial Retail Washington Watch Reps in the Field New Domestic Members International NAMM Foundation Music Notes Resources Viewpoint Playback Supplement : Summer NAMM08 Concerts & Events Artist Appearances What to See NAMM University Sessions

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