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Music instrument retailers still drumming up good business: school band sales jump 4 percent to 5 percent in '08.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 26-JAN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Music instrument retailers still drumming up good business: school band sales jump 4 percent to 5 percent in '08.(Financial report)

Article Excerpt
"Flat is the new up," was emblazoned on T-shirts worn at the National Association of Music Merchants' tradeshow held recently in Orange County.

"There's a lot of gloom and doom out there right now, and it's not that our industry hasn't been impacted, but it's still doing well," said Joe Lamond, president of the Carlsbad-based association, which staged the annual four-day event in Anaheim earlier this month.

While attendance of 85,799 was down 3 percent from last year, Lamond says the number of merchants and manufacturers represented was on par with last year, but individual companies sent fewer people.

He won't have U.S. musical product's shipment figures for 2008 until later this summer, but expectations are that...

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