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Ammunition Box Amplifier I'd like to see the look on the faces of the airport security staff when you present this at check-in. Note that I said when you present it. United States Music |
Live-ish Music Q: What do you get when you cross automated intruments with standard MIDI file? Dae Chang Co., Ltd. |
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Elegant G5 Mad Professor Amps must have had some free time on their hands because they made a new faceplate for their iMac G5 complete with mother of pearl Apple logo. Mad Professor Amplifications |
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Racks For Your Axe The Oddities finally feature instrument stands as out of the ordinary as the instruments we cover. Axe Totem |
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Belt Buckle Pick Storage Here we have the latest volley in the war against lost picks. I feel sorry for the back of the poor guitar. Picksation |
Muppet Guitar Stand Doesn't your guitar deserve to be cuddled by some furry creature when you're not playing it? Axe Hugger |
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More Furry Things It's a furry arms race. The guitar player gets the furry guitar stand and then the singer has to get the furry mic stand. It looks like someone's already onto the idea of furry drums. Skydancers, Inc. |
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Shagadelic Just when you thought we'd narrowly averted a furry apocalypse Kustom comes along and blows it all to hell. Kustom Amplification |
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Resistance Training For Your Lungs For some reason "sucking plastic" doesn't sound quite as tough as "pumping iron." PowerLung, Inc. |
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Pick Mutations These guys ought to get together with Frito Lay and cut a deal to put these picks into Cracker Jack boxes.
That would beat the hell out the lame prizes they put in there these days. Hot Picks USA |
Really Big Things You can't have a proper NAMM show without some oversized promotional item. It looks like Wallacher was the only company there this year that understands this. Wallacher Guitar Hangers |
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Powered Monitors Groove Tubes Style What's this? A tube device that doesn't proudly display the glowing (or backlit) tubes up front? Groove Tubes |
Frett Fingers Use this spring loaded device to keep your fretting fingers in top form even in the off season. FrettFinger |
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ChopSaver Don't they think they're limiting their market by saying "for musicians with lips?" ChopSaver |
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Accessorizing Cables How could the humble guitar cable have gone this long without accessories? You'll never be able to go back to normal metal cable housings after using these oh so stylish clip-on jobs. Full On Management |
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Things For Bottles Forgot your mic stand? No problem. Just pop over to 7-11 and grab a bottle of coke and you're in business. American Recorder Technologies |
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Tube Dude There were several of these little guys floating around the CD Distribution booth. I think this one looks a little like Chris Martin if you ask me. CE Distribution, LLC |
Pikcard Should one of the many pick storage solutions fail you could use this as a backup. Pikcard has put four picks on a credit card-sized piece of plastic. You can even put them back into the card when you're done. This assumes that you're a guitar player with enough money to warrant owning a wallet. Pikcard USA |
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String Things Otto makes a collection of shoulder rests and pin stoppers that are designed to project the resonance that they receive from the instrument thus improving the sound. Otto Musica Corp. |
Lindsay Mac I was walking past the Fostex booth when I happened to see Lindsay Mac performing solo. She straps on a cello and then plays it like a guitar and let me tell you, she rocked. I bought her CD on the spot and I'm very impressed with the songwriting, the singing, the performances, and the production. Check it out. |
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Upside Bass Yes, this guy was really playing like that. Not only playing, but really playing well.
His name is Quintin Berry
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NAMM Oddities '06 Home | Guitars |
Other Goodies | Percussion |
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