Acoustic Guitar Trade, 06/23/09

		JUNE 23, 2009
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	MOVING DAY AT KMC The Kaman Music Corporation, having been acquired by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation more than a year ago, has relocated its offices from its former home in the Kaman Corporation office to a new building just a few miles away at 55 Griffin Road South in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Ovation guitars will still be built in its New Hartford factory, which is also now home to Guild Guitar’s guitar-making operation. kamanmusic.com

	MEISEL MST-10 TUNER Meisel Accessories has recently introduced the compact MST-10 chromatic clip-on tuner, which offers the option of tuning through a built-in microphone or through the headstock clip. It includes guitar, bass, and chromatic settings and can tune virtually any instrument, according to Meisel. meiselaccessories.com CÓRDOBA LA PLAYA Córdoba Guitars has released the La Playa series, which consists of the Donavon Frankenreiter signature model beach/travel guitar and ukulele. The Traveler is a ½-size cutaway acoustic-electric nylon-string guitar that comes with an insulated gig bag, neck strap, battery powered amp, and guitar cord. The La Playa Uke is a mahogany-body tenor uke that also comes with a gig bag. cordobaguitars.com FOCUSRITE LIQUID SAFFIRE 56 Home-recording acoustic guitarists looking to upgrade their stable of mic preamps will be interested in Focusrite’s new Liquid Saffire 56 audio interface. The Saffire 56 includes two Liquid mic preamps, each of which lets users choose from ten different classic preamp emulations (API 3124+, Neve 1073, Pultec MB-1, Telefunken V72, Focusrite’s Red 1, etc.) in order to match their microphone with the perfect mic preamp. focusrite.com

	DPA 4099 MICROPHONE Acoustic Guitar reviews a new clip-on microphone from Danish audio experts that provides studio-quality guitar sound onstage. With video. [more]

	THE PERFECT FINGERSTYLE GUITAR Five renowned guitarists and guitar makers talk about the process of designing and building a great fingerstyle guitar. [more]

	July 3–5, 2009 MONTREAL GUITAR SHOW Montreal, Quebec, Canada salondeguitaredemontreal.com July 17–19, 2009 SUMMER NAMM SHOW Nashville, Tennessee namm.org/summer July 31–August 3, 2009 THE CANADIAN GUITAR FESTIVAL Kingston, Quebec, Canada canadianguitarfestival.com August 14–16, 2009 HEALDSBURG GUITAR FESTIVAL Healdsburg, California lmii.com/GuitarFestival August 23–24, 2009 MUSIC INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION OF CANADA TRADE SHOW Toronto, Canada miac.net October 13–16, 2009 MUSIC CHINA Shanghai, China messefrankfurt.com.hk January 17–19, 2010 WINTER NAMM SHOW Anaheim, California namm.org

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