Yamaha NP-30 - Compact Digital Piano

—BUENA PARK, Calif. — The new Yamaha NP-30 Digital Piano, which debuted at Winter NAMM 2007, represents an entirely new class of Yamaha digital pianos. Designed to offer quality, value and portability with a lighter touch, the NP30 includes 76 Graded Soft Touch piano-style keys and stereo-sampled piano voices. Additional features include 10 quality voices like Pianos, Organs, and Strings plus 32 notes of polyphony and ten recordings of standard piano repertoire.

The NP30 offers Yamaha's first-ever Graded Soft Touch key action. While the touch is lighter than the Graded Hammer Standard and Graded Hammer Effect actions of the more robust digital piano models, Graded Touch provides medium resistance in the left hand that gets lighter as you move up the keyboard allowing faster passages with your right hand. For lower-impact playing, this semi-weighted action is also ideal for aspiring pianists who suffer from arthritis or repetitive stress disorders. What's more, the physical aspects of the Graded Touch action help bring the overall weight of the NP30 to 12 pounds, even lower than the P70, previously Yamaha's lightest digital piano.

For more information on the NP30 Digital Piano visit www.AndysMusicOnline.com or call Andy's Music at 251.633.8944.

Fender G-DEC Guitar Amp

The Music Trades magazine, the musical instrument industry’s most senior and prestigious trade publication, has awarded Fender its coveted “Product of the Year” for the company’s G-DEC amplifier, as announced in the April 2006 issue.

The Fender G-DEC (Guitar Digital Entertainment Center) is Fender’s wildly successful new guitar amplifier that features digital reproductions of various amps and effects, plus onboard drum loops, bass lines and many other features that represent a quantum leap forward in the technology of learning and practicing the guitar.

According to Music Trades, selecting the Product of the Year “has often been a difficult task, given the number of creative minds at work within our business.”

“This year however, you made it relatively simple. In terms of impact, Fender’s creation of the G-DEC is momentous and a logical choice for Product of the Year. We feel that one of our roles as a trade paper is to honor those who have enriched the industry. So it is a pleasure to be able to accord a small tribute to a product that has fostered the creative process and provided a source of profit to retailers.”

The G-DEC joins an impressive list of Music Trades Product of the Year winners. Last year, for example, the award went to the popular GarageBand™ home recording software system by Apple Computers Inc.

“When we consider the company we are in and the other fine products that have previously won this award, we can only say that we are honored to be held in such high esteem,” said Shane Nicholas, marketing manager for Fender amplifiers. “We owe thanks to everyone involved, including our design team, our dealers and, of course, the huge number of guitarists around the world who have made the G-DEC the success that it is.”

For more information on Fender Guitars and Fender Amps, visit www.AndysMusicOnline.com.