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Guitar Magazine Subscriptions

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Here is a selection of some of the Guitar Magazines available on the market. If you are interested in learning more about these magazines you can click on the image of the magazine cover and you will be taken to magazines.com

Acoustic Guitar Magazine
Acoustic Guitar is a comprehensive resource for beginner to seasoned performers of all music styles. Find features, events, reviews, transcriptions from recordings and solo pieces for guitars in each issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine.

Bass Player Magazine
Bass Player magazine is written for serious musicians who play electric and acoustic bass. Each issue of Bass Player magazine features technique how-to articles, musician interviews and reviews of equipment, instructional videos, books and CDs.

Guitar Player Magazine
Guitar Player magazine is written for serious guitarists who want to become better, more informed players. Each issue of Guitar Player magazine is fiercely dedicated to stylistic diversity in its coverage of music, artists and guitar gear.

Premier Guitar Magazine
It’s the multimedia home for guitarists who are serious about their tone. See Premier Guitar’s print magazine, online digital edition and web site for in-depth gear info, artist features, how-to tips, lessons and more.

An Interview with Harvey Levy of Levy’s Leathers

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Harvey Levy with Laskin Guitar

RDGN: How long has Levy’s Leathers been in business?
Harvey Levy: 36 years

RDGN: Where are you located?
Harvey Levy: Two factories: Antigonish Nova Scotia & Winnipeg Manitoba

RDGN: What is your job title at Levy’s Leathers?
Harvey Levy: Vice President

RDGN: Which Product line came first? (Music Products or Hunting Products)?
Harvey Levy: They both emerged around the same time (1976). At first hunting grew and then within a ten year period the music side took off.

RDGN: How did you ever come up with merging 2 such diverse product lines?
Harvey Levy: Our hunting products are really guns lings or straps for guns. As with guitar straps they are made with leather and other webbing type materials. Only the attachment ends differ. When we first began in 1975. We would travel across Canada with a van full of various leather goods (belts, dog collars, guns lings and guitar straps). Having so many different products for different businesses allowed us to spend a few days, even in small towns visiting the various retail stores and
delivering out of the back of the van. We also made promotional key fobs for automobile dealerships.

RDGN: Are both product lines made in the same building?
Harvey Levy: The slings and guitar straps are made in both factories. The high end gig bags are made in our Winnipeg factory only and our entry level gig bags are made in China.

RDGN: Which product that you manufacture are you most proud of and why?
Harvey Levy: The guitar straps. I have been playing guitar, song writing and performing for fifty years (I just returned from a song writing trip to Nashville). When I joined my brother Dennis in 1979, I was playing in a band and immediately started designing some straps. At that point we had only three basic models. I have always thought of the guitar strap as a fashion item. The first thing I did when my brother gave me a guitar strap (before I joined him in the business) was to run to the mirror to see if it looked good with my outfit and my guitar. Clearly I am a vain guitarist and I thought there must be others like me and so began designing with that in mind. I am very proud of the fact that we offer over 350 models and over 3000 designs and colors.

RDGN: How long have you been playing the guitar?
Harvey Levy: Since 1961.

RDGN: What was the first guitar that you owned?
Harvey Levy: I play left handed and my brother Dennis owned a Framus. He wasn’t bothering to play very much, so without him knowing about it, I switched the strings around and started to learn a few chords. By the time he noticed, I was ready to buy my first guitar. I wanted a Goya, but couldn’t afford it, so I bought an EKO.

RDGN: What groups inspired you to want to learn to play the guitar? Harvey Levy: Everly Brothers, Bob Dylan, Peter Paul & Mary, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot.

RDGN: What was the first song that you wanted to learn to play? Harvey Levy: Wake Up Little Suzie but it took a long time to learn how to make the fast chord changes. I think Michael Row the Boat Ashore was what I actually learned first.

RDGN: What is your most favorite guitar that you have ever owned? and why did you like it so much?
Harvey Levy: In 1988 I took possession of a handmade one
of a kind William (Grit) Laskin guitar. It is still my main guitar; however I do have 14 others, both electric and acoustic, one National resophonic one banjo and a mandolin (all custom made left handed). It is my favourite because the sound, the action and balance across the strings is sweetness itself.

RDGN: What makes Levy’s Leathers different than the other companies out there?
Harvey Levy: I cannot comment on other companies, but Levy’s removes about 100 of its models every year and introduces a new 100 every January at NAMM. I still design a few of the straps, but I have four other designers/artists working with me and they are all guitar players of varying abilities, but they all understand that a guitar player wants to look good whether he in on stage or in his basement pretending he is on stage. First of all a guitar strap must do its job (hold up the guitar). After that has been accomplished the appearance is paramount. We consider the guitar strap to be a fashion accessory.

RDGN: Is there anything else that you would like to share with our readers, either about you or your company?
Harvey Levy: Be sure to visit our website after the NAMM Show. We will have a video of our booth and new straps. Every year we launch our new product on our website: www.levysleathers.com.

RDGN: We would really like to thank, Harvey Levy and Levy’s Leathers for taking time out to help us with this interview.

Planet Waves Accessories : News Details

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D’ADDARIO & COMPANY RECENTLY FEATURED ON CNN’S “YOUR MONEY” AND HEADLINE NEWS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Story Aired through the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend, Now Available for Online Viewing

FARMINGDALE, NY, November 30, 2009 – For the past two years, D’Addario & Company has cut inventory, streamlined factory floor operations, updated technology and saved jobs at their Long Island-based company. Keeping a promise made in the 1970s, D’Addario has implemented the efficiencies necessary to keep jobs in – and bring jobs back to – America with LEAN Manufacturing. These principles were recently showcased on the CNN show “Your Money,” also known as “Your $$$$$,” and on CNN Headline News. It is also available for viewing online. “Your $$$$$” is a one-hour news show hosted by Christine Romans and Ali Velshi broadcast by CNN from the Time Warner Center studios in New York City. Breaking down the business news of the week and showing viewers how it impacts their bottom line, it is the only program on the network devoted to in-depth financial coverage.

The piece discusses D’Addario’s recent but devoted adoption of Toyota’s LEAN practices, and D’Addario’s 35-year commitment to factory automation. Though critics maintain that LEAN implementations and automation eliminate jobs, Jim D’Addario, company CEO, disagrees. By cross-training and teaching workers new skills, like constructing Planet Waves straps, D’Addario has been able to profitably move jobs back from China to Long Island, NY. This point is reiterated by Labor Economist of the University of Maryland, Peter Morici, who discusses how LEAN makes it possible to create products in the US both efficiently and cost effectively.

The story has garnered an overwhelming response from consumers and artists, many showing their pride for products made in the USA:

“I just saw your piece on CNN and I wanted to thank you for keeping your manufacturing in the USA, especially Long Island, which is where my hometown is (Huntington Station, NY). Too many companies outsource their product and I am glad that CNN showcased your stance for manufacturing in America and trying to keep as many of your employees as you can. I might not be a buyer of guitar strings but I will be sure to mention you when I am on Twitter and YouTube. Thank you for staying American!”

“After seeing the piece about the company on CNN all I wanted to express was how proud you all made me feel to have been, and still be, a loyal user of your strings for as long as I can remember. I've been playing for over 45 years now and really feel good about making the conscious decision to use your products exclusively, both for the quality and also the fact that they are made here in the U.S.A.”

“What a great opportunity, not only for our company but for the music products industry as a whole, to increase visibility in this piece by CNN,” Says Jim D’Addario. “Through these tough economic times, we relied on LEAN efficiencies to improve our quality, our customer service and to keep manufacturing jobs in America. Getting the word out in this piece will hopefully encourage other manufacturers to maintain their U.S. factories and bring jobs to America.”

To view the story online, please visit, http://ping.fm/q9U9k

For more information on D’Addario & Company, please visit http://www.jdaddario.com.

D’Addario & Company, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets complete lines of strings for fretted and bowed musical instruments, drumheads, drum practice pads, and guitar and woodwind accessories under the proprietary brand names D’Addario, Evans Drumheads, Planet Waves, Rico, HQ Percussion and PureSound Percussion. The company also runs D’Addario’s Musician Hub, The Stage (www.tothestage.com) and The Lesson Room (www.thelessonroom.com). D’Addario products are marketed in approximately 120 countries.

Media Contact:

Angela Magliocca

angela.magliocca@daddario.com

via Planet Waves Accessories : News Details.

Line6 Spider IV 15 Guitar Amplifier Review

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Spider® IV 15 delivers a perfectly distilled collection of celebrated American and British amp tones. With one-touch ease, access the 4 absolutely essential amp models that every guitarist needs.

Inspired by the features that made Spider III 15 the best-selling guitar amp in the U.S.*, Spider IV 15 boasts celebrated amp tones, 6 inspiring effects that add exceptional colors and textures, a built-in tuner, a three-band EQ section for tone-shaping control and more.

A wolf in sheep’s clothing, Spider IV 15 sounds ferocious at low volumes as well as cranked to 11. Plus, value-packed, it puts pro sounds and into a lightweight box that’s small enough to tuck under your bed or desk.

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Line 6 Spider IV Guitar Amplifier Overview Video

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Ebtech Swizz Army Cable Tester

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The Swizz Army 6 -in- 1 Cable Tester is six handy tools in one. Not only a cable tester but a handy LED display for wiring and intermittent detection, an installed cable tester, test tone generator, phantom power detector and ground shield detector.

Encased in cold-rolled steel, the Swizz Army Cable Tester is made to be road worthy and comes with a no hassle two-year warranty. Each function is clearly marked on the unit for ease of use and runs off 2 AA batteries (not included). Anyone that deals with cables needs this handy device. Don’t get caught without one!

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Morley ABY Selector / Combiner Pedal

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Model: ABY

This pedal is designed for 2 basic functions:
1. Routing one input signal to two output paths.
2. Routing 2 input signals to one output path.

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Planet Waves Chromatic Pedal Tuner Product Demo

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Planet Waves Universal II Chromatic Tuner Product Demo

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PW-CT-09

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