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WHEATWARE I MANUFACTURING<br />
Wheatware’s<br />
Factory Woes<br />
Wheatware<br />
guitar picks<br />
Earlier this year, Midwest Manufacturing,<br />
which produced goods for Wheatware<br />
Biodegradables, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.<br />
The Grand Island, Neb.-based company<br />
has listed $1.3 million in assets and<br />
$4.1 million in liabilities.<br />
Midwest Manufacturing CEO and<br />
Secretary Warren Kirsch, who also serves as<br />
CEO of Wheatware, said that the filing was<br />
made to reorganize the manufacturer’s debt.<br />
Wheatware is a separate business entity and<br />
is not named in the bankruptcy filing.<br />
Wheatware makes eco-friendly guitar<br />
picks and drumsticks. {wheatware.com}<br />
MUSIKMESSE I SHOWS<br />
Messe Gets Small<br />
Attendance Bump<br />
The Musikmesse and Prolight and<br />
Sound 2010 trade show in Frankfurt,<br />
Germany, was held March 24–27 and<br />
attracted 79,069 visitors. Of the attendees,<br />
33 percent, or 25,662, came from outside<br />
Germany, an increase of 1 percent from<br />
last year. More than 1,510 music product<br />
exhibitors also attended.<br />
PEAVEY HONORED<br />
The Musikmesse International Press<br />
Awards (MIPA) were announced on<br />
March 25. Hartley Peavey, founder of<br />
Peavey Electronics,<br />
received the 2010<br />
MIPA Hall of Fame<br />
Lifetime Achievement<br />
Award.<br />
“Peavey Electronics<br />
has stayed at the forefront<br />
of the music and<br />
audio industry by<br />
evolving,” Peavey said.<br />
Hartley<br />
Peavey<br />
The next Musikmesse and Prolight and<br />
Sound will be held April 6–9, 2011. The<br />
organization’s other big trade show, <strong>Music</strong><br />
China, will be held Oct. 12–15, 2010, in<br />
Shanghai. {messefrankfurt.com}<br />
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NAPBIRT I SHOWS<br />
NAPBIRT MAKES REPAIRS<br />
The National Association of<br />
Professional Band Instrument<br />
Repair Technicians (NAPBIRT) held its<br />
34th annual international conference<br />
from April 9–12 at the Hyatt Regency<br />
in Tampa, Fla., with 293 members and<br />
guests in attendance. Twenty-one<br />
educational seminars covered topics,<br />
such as repair procedures, shop<br />
safety and machine tool operation.<br />
NAPBIRT’s next two conferences<br />
will be held April 4–8, 2011, at the<br />
Atlantis Casino Resort in Reno, Nev.,<br />
and April 13–16, 2012, at the Marriott<br />
Hotel and Conference Center in<br />
Bloomington-Normal, Ill. {napbirt.org}<br />
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