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Blackstar Amplification recently received
the 2011 Queen’s Award For
Enterprise in the International Trade
category. The awards are the United
Kingdom’s most prestigious honor for
business success and are presented in
three categories.
“In 2007, four friends launched
Blackstar Amplification,” said Paul
Hayhoe, Blackstar U.K.’s sales and
UNIVERSAL PERCUSSION, YAMAHA I PARTNERSHIP
UNIVERSAL &
YAMAHA TEAM UP
Universal Percussion has announced
it will distribute
Yamaha drums and hardware to
dealers across the United States.
“Yamaha drums have always
been known for quality, craftsmanship
and attention to detail,” said
David Jewell, marketing manager for
Yamaha Drums. “Through this new
partnership, Tom [Shelley, president
of Universal Percussion,] and his
team will be able to better serve the
markets we couldn’t reach before.”
Shelley said he’s thrilled by
the opportunity to enter the
partnership with Yamaha.
“Yamaha makes great drums,
and we’ll be supporting them with
Universal’s equally great sales and
The Blackstar team
BLACKSTAR I AWARD
ROYAL ACHIEVEMENT
marketing director. “Having worked
together for years at the highest levels
of the amp-designing industry, their
dream was to create new and innovative
guitar amplifiers and pedals that
would be the ultimate tools for selfexpression.”
Blackstar received the award after
only being a business for four years.
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service,” he said. “That
means maintaining a solid inventory
of drum kits, add-on drums
and spare parts. At Universal,
we work hard to earn and main-
customers with all of our product
lines. And that’s how we’ll be
handling Yamaha products.”
To start, Universal will carry the
GigMaker and Stage Custom Birch
drum kit lines in all standard
These will be accompanied by
an assortment of stands, pedals
and parts. Yamaha’s 700 and
800 series hardware packs will
also be available. {universal
percussion.com; yamaha.com}
BAG END I REAL WORLD
Bag End
Creates a Storm
Bag End Loudspeaker is helping
bring storms to life at the “Sci-
Museum of Science and Industry.
The new 26,000-square-foot,
high-voltage lightning and a tsunami
in a 30-foot wave tank.
Bag End D10E-I subwoofers are
“The main audio for the large
screen includes Bag End D10E-Is
mounted below a grill at each of the
listening stations,” said Maris Ensing,
president of AV designer Mad
Systems, which designed both the
AV system and the safety controls
its
feature rear-projection screens
with D10E-Is mounted in the ceiling
above them.” {bagend.com}
TRIBUTE
Thank you for your contributions to the
music industry. You will be missed.
“Science Storms”
exhibit at Chicago’s Museum
of Science and Industry
Don Broman
Don Broman, former vice president
of Baldwin Piano, passed away on
May 12 in Kenosha, Wis. He was
96. Broman joined Lyon & Healy in
1937 during the Great Depression,
where he worked with the staff to
keep the company above water. He
stayed 38 years until he became
the vice president of Baldwin Piano
in 1975. Broman remained at Baldwin
until his retirement in 1984.
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