From 11:00AM to 6:00PM at the Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY.

Promoting the art of lutherie, The Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase is a low-key, laid-back event for the community of acoustic stringed-instrument builders, players, collectors and aficionados. Fine, handmade acoustic instruments are not usually available in music stores or other retail environments. This will be a rare opportunity for the public to see, hear, play, buy or commission custom-made instruments - the finest examples of the luthiers’ art - gathered together in one place. Meet the builders, discuss custom instruments, and hear some fine music. Classical and steel-string guitars - flattops, archtops, manouche and hybrids - plus mandolins, banjoes, violin and bowmakers, lutes, ouds, and ukuleles. Other vendors will include wood, parts and tool suppliers, string and accessories manufacturers, publications and instructional materials.

There will be live music, demos and performances throughout both days, by some of the region’s finest musicians, plus an exhibit of rare and significant historic, vintage and contemporary instruments loaned by major collectors. There are plans for an associated concert of acoustic music featuring some of the Woodstock area’s famous musicians, singers and songwriters.

Tickets: ONLY $10.00

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Along with the dramatic tonal enhancements, the Babicz FCH offers substantial performance improvements. With the patent pending Babicz “eCAM” technology, string action height is quickly and easily set to any playing preference while the Full Contact Saddles make direct contact to the body.

There is no loss of transference between string and body, even as string height and intonation adjustments are made.

The Babicz Full Contact Hardware will be on exhibit at the Reliance International/Dixon Hardware booth at the upcoming Frankfurt Musik Messe, April 1st through April 4th, in Hall 3.0, Stand # C31

KMC Music is the largest independent distributor of musical instruments and accessories in the United States and a major producer of guitars and guitar parts and accessories. KMC Music owns a number of subsidiaries and brands in music industry, including Ovation, Takamine, Hamer and Adamas Guitars and Genz Benz Amplifiers.

Reliance International Corporation is the global leader in hardware manufacturing for the guitar and musical instrument industries. One of Asia's most active exporters and importers of musical instruments and accessories, Reliance has served the global music industry for more than two decades. Reliance is also involved in numerous manufacturing joint ventures with factories in Taiwan and China. Its longevity and reputation for quality products has helped it become respected worldwide.

The proprietary "Full Contact Hardware" technology uses the equivalent of over 50 contact points between the string and the body per saddle, as opposed to just two. The result is over 300 times the transference, resulting in unmatched sustain and tone.

Along with the dramatic tonal enhancements, the Babicz FCH offers substantial performance improvements. With the patent pending Babicz Serpentine Lever technology, you have the ability to set the string action height to any playing preference while the Full Contact Saddles make direct contact to the guitar’s body. There is no loss of transference between string and body, even as string height and intonation adjustments are made.

Babicz Guitars USA is a producer of patented performance based, innovative and licensable musical instrument technology, including the Variable Set Neck, Torque Reducing Split Bridge, and the Lateral Compression Soundboard. The company was founded by guitar industry veterans Jeff Babicz Sr. and Jeff Carano in 2003, and maintains their corporate headquarters in Poughkeepsie, New York. The company also has a showroom facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where it performs sales/marketing, manufacturing, R&D and fulfillment operations.

Babicz Guitars has received several awards and stellar reviews from the industry’s most respected trade publications. Their innovative guitars are favored by many of the music industry’s most renowned artists, such as Todd Rundgren, Foreigner, The Black Eyed Peas, The Pretenders, Kansas, Adrian Belew, Pat Travers, Porcupine Tree, Orleans, Gregg Allman, Don Dokken, and many others. Their patented features are also licensed by some of the guitar industry’s best known brands, including C.F. Martin and Michael Kelly Guitars.

For more info call 877-856-0780

Please join us, January 17th -20th, at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California and check out all the latest and greatest Babicz products!

The NAMM Show is the largest music products trade show in United States. Held every January in Anaheim, California, USA the show brings together all facets of the music products industry to reveal new musical instruments/products and ideas to help music products retailers and manufacturers become more successful. More than 80,000 NAMM Members and guests attended the January 2007 show. The NAMM Show is not open to the general public. The acronym NAMM originally stood for the National Association of Music Merchants, but has evolved from a national entity representing the interests of music products retailers to an international association including both commercial, retail members and affiliates. Therefore, the long form of the name is no longer used, and it is simply known as NAMM, the International Music Products Association.

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