This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with Herb Remington, which was captured on November 16, 2015. For his biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww1.namm...
This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with Robert Perine, which was captured on November 17, 2003. For his biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww1.namm....
Band Instrument Repair Technicians are always working behind the scenes to save the day when instruments come in damaged and in need of some repair. They are the ones that have all the c...
Ralph Peer II is the Chairman and CEO of Peermusic, which was formed by his father in 1928. While his father played a historic role in early-recorded music, the publishing company is equa...
Tom Steuckert is a veteran of the music industry having served as store manager at Union Grove Music in Santa Cruz, a road rep and sales manager. His career began when he helped assemble...
Richard Gellis remembers the early days of the vintage guitar movement when greater value was being placed on "used instruments." As his small store grew in Santa Cruz, California, so di...
Fat Dog is the founder of Subway Guitars in Berkeley, California. Since the 1960s, the store has become a hub for musicians to gather to discuss everything from politics and human rights...
Jason Berg is a guitar tech at Union Grove Music in Santa Cruz, where he was interviewed for the NAMM Oral History program to discuss his involvement with the Supro Guitar line as well as...
Accordions make a sound when the bellows are expanded or compressed with air, while pressing keys causing the pallets to open. The air moves across the strips of reeds, allowing them to ...
This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with Phyllis Fender, which was captured on September 20, 2003. For her biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww1.nam...
This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with George Fullerton, which was captured on October 11, 2003. For his biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww1.nam...
This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with Mary Lou Hoogenboom, which was captured on September 30, 2012. For her biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww...
This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with Billy Carson, which was captured on July 21, 2001. For his biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww1.namm.org/l...
This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with Michael Diehl, which was captured on January 15, 2010. For his biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww1.namm.o...
This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with Susan Davis, which was captured on September 27, 2003. For her biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww1.namm.o...
This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with Bruce Bolen, which was captured on July 17, 2009. For his biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww1.namm.org/li...
This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with Richard Allen, which was captured on May 17, 2003. For his biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww1.namm.org/l...
This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with Orrin Foslien, which was captured on July 9, 2015. For his biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww1.namm.org/l...
The harmonica is a free wind instrument used in several genres of music worldwide. The reeds are pre-tuned to individual pitches, which can be done by changing the length or stiffness of ...
This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with Don Randall, which was captured on Decemer 15, 2003. For his biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww1.namm.org/...
This is the full length NAMM Oral History interview with Wilbur Fuller, which was captured on June 9, 2005. For his biography and web clip, please follow the link: https://ww1.namm.org/li...
Ann Patrick Green is the founder of Patrick Music School in Fullerton, California and the music teacher who provided training lessons during the NAMM Shows. Her passion has always been c...
Dick Nash was a first call trombone player in the Los Angeles studios for several decades. He played for over two thousand movies and TV programs and with a list of artists ranging from ...
Bob Bain played with a number of the big bands during the golden era of swing before he became the iconic studio session player in Los Angeles. His session playing is well known for a wi...
Colin Bailey famously played brushes on the song “Linus and Lucy” by Vince Guaraldi, which was made popular thanks to the Peanuts cartoon television specials. His long career included gig...
Rudy Van Gelder was the recording engineer for countless jazz records beginning in the 1940s. To say he was a pioneer seems like an understatement when you take into consideration not onl...
Joe Veillette took a luthier class, a class by Michael Gurian back in 1971 and never looked back! He became so interested in guitar building that he teamed up with Harvey Citron and form...
Malcolm Cecil was the engineer and product designer behind the famous synthesizer known as TONTO! TONTO is the acronym for "The Original New Timbral Orchestra," the first, and still the l...
Sara Faust may be the only music retailer who has won both the Chopin Piano Competition's first prize as well as the Concert Artists Guild's first place award! In 1996, after her career ...
Pauline Oliveros pioneered composing music using electronic instruments. She recorded both with the Moog and Buchla synthesizers as well as the Expanded Instrument System, an electronic s...
