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The Fork’s team accepts top Gretsch honors AWARD Fork’s Top Honor KMC Music recently named Fork’s Drum Closet the top Gretsch USA Custom Dealer for 2009. Gretsch’s Ridgeland, S.C., custom drum workshop created a commemorative award made of a USA Custom snare shell that was cut in half, wrapped in black glass glitter nitron and mounted on wood that was finished in piano black gloss lacquer. KMC presented the award to Fork’s Drum Closet during a Stanton Moore clinic in March. CONTEST The Next Blues King Guitar Center has launched its fourth annual King of the Blues contest, a nationwide search for the next undiscovered blues guitar giant. Starting April 1, guitarists were invited to sign up at any GC location for the chance to compete for thousands of dollars in prizes and perform alongside Derek Trucks at the King of the Blues finals in Los Angeles. Local competitions are being held at each of GC’s 214 locations. The final competition will be held Sept. 2. APPOINTMENTS New M.F. Veeps Musician’s Friend Tim White has appointed Tim White as vice president of sales and Pamela Turay as vice president of human resources. White brings 15 years of experience Pamela Turay in sales and management and will be responsible for leadership of sales activities. Turay also brings more than 15 years of experience in human resources, branding, sales, marketing and finance. She’ll be responsible for the development and implementation of company strategies, policies and programs for human resources. 18 I MUSIC INC. I JUNE 2010 JORDAN KITT’S MUSIC I CLOSING KITT’S PLANS TO RELOCATE HQ P iano retail chain Jordan Kitt’s Music is currently liquidating inventory from its College Park, Md., headquarters and plans to close the store. From April 16–18, the company hosted a by-appointmentonly pre-sale for preferred customers, dubbed the “Largest Piano Store Closing in History.” According to P.J. Ottenritter, the company’s vice president of sales and marketing, Kitt’s plans to relocate the facility but hasn’t determined the new location yet. He said recent construction at the University of Maryland has made the area around the store less accessible. “With all the changes to College Inside Alto Music’s new Airmont, N.Y., location ALTO MUSIC I OPENING Alto’s Design-Focused Retail Alto Music recently opened a fifth location in Airmont, N.Y., and according to owner Jon Haber, it’s the company’s best-designed store yet. “Everyone’s jaw hits the floor when they see it,” Haber said. “It is a full-line store with a really beauti- The piano chain liquidates its flagship location, prepares to move Park in the past few years and with stores now covering area counties once only served by College Park, we’re better suited with a more efficient facility with easier distribution capability and a more suitable [administration] office for our current staffing needs,” Ottenritter said. He added that store count “may not change.” ful design and layout.” The 5,600-square-foot store is located a mile and a half from the original Alto Music location, which opened in 1966. Haber mentioned that he also recently purchased a new building for the company’s Wappingers Falls, N.Y., store.
Performers in Gist Piano Center’s first annual Doctors’ Recital and Benefit concert GIST PIANO CENTER I OUTREACH MUSIC, DOCTORS & HEALING On April 8, Gist Piano Center in Louisville, Ky., hosted its first annual Doctors’ Recital and Benefit concert, featuring a dozen physicians performing live on The Kentucky Center stage. Guests enjoyed the music of Dr. B and The Boppers, led by Dr. Kenneth Beilman, along with other musical works and refreshments. Thirty-five dollars of each ticket sale went to Kentucky’s Arts in Healing program, a partnership between members of Kentucky’s arts community, medical professionals and The Kentucky Center. Through this initiative, The Kentucky Center partners with healthcare providers to bring local and national artists into places of healing. “Countless studies have proven that people of all ages, styles or skills can gain permanent benefits to body, mind and soul through participation in music,” said John Gist, vice president of Gist Piano Center. “With partners like The Kentucky Center, we are working to build a musical future for our community.” “Through music and art, patients transcend pain and the confines of their illness or hospital room, escaping into the worlds of imagination,” said Kelly Cummings, Arts in Healing corporate gifts manager. “They move from a sense of helplessness to a mindset of control, from hopelessness to optimism, from depression to motivation.” STEINWAY PIANO GALLERY I SALES Bower Goes Strictly Steinway The Bower School of Music at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) in Fort Myers, Fla., recently became an all-Steinway school. It’s the 111th school in the United States to receive the designation, which means it only features Steinway pianos. Steinway Piano Gallery of Naples handled the transaction. Greg Billings, owner of Steinway Piano Gallery, and Tommy Edds, regional manager for Steinway & Sons, presented a commemorative plaque to FGCU dignitaries. The Bower School invested in more than 30 Steinway, Boston and Essex pianos. JUNE 2010 I MUSIC INC. I 19
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