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NAMM Oral History Program
The NAMM Oral History Program is an oral history project and archive of recordings of interviews with people from all aspects of the music products industry, including music instrument retailers, musical instrument and product creators, suppliers and sales representatives, music educators and advocates, publishers, live sound and recording pioneers, innovators, founders, and musicians.
Established in 2000 by NAMM: The International Music Products Association to preserve the history of the music products industry as well as improve music education worldwide, the program includes over 5,000 audio or video interviews available to the public via online streaming.
In 1996, NAMM established the NAMM Resource Center to preserve the history of the music products industry. In 2000 the Oral History Program was founded, with Dan Del Fiorentino, NAMM Music Historian and former curator of the NAMM Foundation's Museum of Making Music as lead interviewer. The first NAMM Oral History interview, with professional harmonica player Bill Walden, was conducted on March 5, 2000 at the Museum of Making Music's opening day.
The NAMM Oral History Program seeks to capture one-on-one interviews with those involved with the music products industry to document and preserve the evolution of musical instruments and music retail, and improve music education worldwide. Interview subjects include but are not limited to: music instrument designers, manufacturers, and retailers, composers, arrangers, and publishers, recording and live sound engineers, and musicians.
The collection includes interviews with people from over 80 countries and all 50 U.S. states, born between 1903 and 2001.
Musical instrument pioneers and founders of companies that manufacture music products have been interviewed for the collection, including Moog Music founder Bob Moog, Roland and Boss founder Ikutaro Kakehashi, Korg co-founder Tsutomu Katoh, Orange founder Clifford Cooper, guitar innovator Ted McCarty, Taylor Guitars co-founder Bob Taylor, Remo founder Remo Belli, Roger Linn, Tom Oberheim, Ray Kurzweil, Henry E. Steinway of Steinway & Sons, Meyer Sound Laboratories co-founder Helen Meyer, and Hirotaka Kawai, a key figure in the Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Company. The collection's interviews also include factory workers and salespeople who worked for music product manufacturers or sold the products those companies produced.
The collection includes interviews from music product retailers, covering the history of such music store chains as Guitar Center and Sam Ash, as well as independent music stores around the world such as Andertons Music Co. in England, Daynes Music in the U.S., and Tom Lee Music in Hong Kong. Other interviews include key figures in music product retailing, such as Henry Goldrich of Manny's Music and George Gruhn of Gruhn Guitars.
Interviews with songwriters within the collection include interviews with Songwriters Hall of Fame members Allee Willis and Marilyn Bergman, and folk singer and songwriter Pete Seeger. Composers interviewed for the collection include electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick and former Yes guitarist and film composer Trevor Rabin.
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NAMM Oral History Program
The NAMM Oral History Program is an oral history project and archive of recordings of interviews with people from all aspects of the music products industry, including music instrument retailers, musical instrument and product creators, suppliers and sales representatives, music educators and advocates, publishers, live sound and recording pioneers, innovators, founders, and musicians.
Established in 2000 by NAMM: The International Music Products Association to preserve the history of the music products industry as well as improve music education worldwide, the program includes over 5,000 audio or video interviews available to the public via online streaming.
In 1996, NAMM established the NAMM Resource Center to preserve the history of the music products industry. In 2000 the Oral History Program was founded, with Dan Del Fiorentino, NAMM Music Historian and former curator of the NAMM Foundation's Museum of Making Music as lead interviewer. The first NAMM Oral History interview, with professional harmonica player Bill Walden, was conducted on March 5, 2000 at the Museum of Making Music's opening day.
The NAMM Oral History Program seeks to capture one-on-one interviews with those involved with the music products industry to document and preserve the evolution of musical instruments and music retail, and improve music education worldwide. Interview subjects include but are not limited to: music instrument designers, manufacturers, and retailers, composers, arrangers, and publishers, recording and live sound engineers, and musicians.
The collection includes interviews with people from over 80 countries and all 50 U.S. states, born between 1903 and 2001.
Musical instrument pioneers and founders of companies that manufacture music products have been interviewed for the collection, including Moog Music founder Bob Moog, Roland and Boss founder Ikutaro Kakehashi, Korg co-founder Tsutomu Katoh, Orange founder Clifford Cooper, guitar innovator Ted McCarty, Taylor Guitars co-founder Bob Taylor, Remo founder Remo Belli, Roger Linn, Tom Oberheim, Ray Kurzweil, Henry E. Steinway of Steinway & Sons, Meyer Sound Laboratories co-founder Helen Meyer, and Hirotaka Kawai, a key figure in the Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Company. The collection's interviews also include factory workers and salespeople who worked for music product manufacturers or sold the products those companies produced.
The collection includes interviews from music product retailers, covering the history of such music store chains as Guitar Center and Sam Ash, as well as independent music stores around the world such as Andertons Music Co. in England, Daynes Music in the U.S., and Tom Lee Music in Hong Kong. Other interviews include key figures in music product retailing, such as Henry Goldrich of Manny's Music and George Gruhn of Gruhn Guitars.
Interviews with songwriters within the collection include interviews with Songwriters Hall of Fame members Allee Willis and Marilyn Bergman, and folk singer and songwriter Pete Seeger. Composers interviewed for the collection include electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick and former Yes guitarist and film composer Trevor Rabin.