NAMM Oddities 2014

Every year, the National Association of Music Merchants hosts a big tradeshow and companies or individuals hoping to bring a new instrument to market rent a booth and display their great ideas.

A few months later, Barry Wood compiles his list of some of the stranger finds and publishes them as his annual NAMM Oddities -- the list for 2014 was just released:

Welcome to the 2014 edition of the NAMM Oddities
Another NAMM, another late edition of the NAMM Oddities. This year the Oddities were again delayed by an unexpected influx of work, which was good for me but not so much for fans of the Oddities. One of he delay-causing bits of work was being part of the sound crew for a documentary shoot in Ireland with an Academy Award-winning director. I can think of many things that suck more than that.

As you may have already noticed, there are two products featured on the right. This year I've decided to award two products the distinction of being Oddities of the Year.

The Aerodrums fall into that rarified category of technology that I consider magic. While I can see that it works, the fact that is does is simply magical.

While the Aerodrums are not much to look at, there's no denying the striking visual appeal of the PianoArc.

 Make sure you check out the videos I shot for these two products.

-Barry

Very cool stuff -- here are three that caught my eye:

20140511-mix-table.jpg Cool coffee table 20140511-hohner.jpg Talk about an accordion 20140511-drumstatic.jpg Drum stand with integrated microphone attach points - nice piece of metalworking!

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