Gigbag
December 2006
Gig Bag: December 2006
Tito Puente Book/DVD From Hudson music comes the Tito Puente: King of Latin Music combo pack, a book/DVD set featuring an 88-page biography rife with personal stories, Latin-jazz history and the timbales-master’s rich humor, as well as a 45-minute DVD comprising...
November 2006
Gigbag: November 2006
Rogers Drums Yamaha recently acquired the intellectual property rights to Rogers Drums and plans to release new product from the hallowed brand. Founded in 1849 and considered a bastion of manufacturing excellence and innovation (especially for the Dyna...
October 2006
Gigbag: October 2006
Veillette Jazz Archtop Every musician needs a travel-friendly, road-ready guitar, and the Veillette Jazz Archtop, with its small body and compressed scale length, would make a fine addition to every touring guitarist’s collection. Weighing in at six pounds...
September 2006
Gigbag: September 2006
Town Talk Polish Products England’s Town Talk Polish Company has partnered with Yamaha to release a line of cleaning products for silver and lacquer-finished woodwind and brass instruments. Among the products in the line are polishes, cloths and mitts, including...
July/August 2006
Gigbag: July/August 2006
Peterson StroboSoft Suite Peterson previously only offered its StroboSoft Suite as a digital download, but the software-based strobe tuner for Mac and PC now ships in a retail box that includes a hard-copy manual and an audio adapter for a sound-card jack...
June 2006
Gigbag: June 2006
Yamaha P140 Series Keyboards In the market for a compact, contemporary-looking, computer-compatible electronic piano? Yamaha’s P140 series keyboards are worth a look, featuring 88 weighted keys, 64 notes of polyphony and 14 realistic voices, each with three...
May 2006
Gigbag: May 2006
Prelude Bass Strings Recognizing that student bass players don’t necessarily have the dough for pro-level strings but need to restring their instruments still the same, D’Addario responded with Prelude bass strings. Available in four scale lengths from 3...
March 2006
Gigbag: March 2006
Vater Chop Builder Pads Vater recently rolled out a new line of percussion practice pads. The five different models are all single-sided and feature a nonskid rubber base. Mountable to a cymbal stand, the pads are available in six-inch soft, six-inch hard...
January/February 2006
Gigbag: January/February 2006
The Acoustic Bass DVD Who better to help hone your improvising skills on upright bass than Gary Peacock? In this 75-minute DVD, Peacock covers the basics of bass playing--posture, alignment, etc.--before sharing his insights into improvisation and how to...
December 2005
Gigbag: December 2005
M-Audio TimewARP 2600 Cutting-edge tech that simulates an old but time-honored sound--that's the story of M-Audio's TimewARP 2600, a software-based re-creation of the famed ARP 2600 analog synthesizer put into play by Joe Zawinul on many a Weather Report...
