Amistar

Hi all,

last week I visited the Musikmesse in my hometown Frankfurt am Main Germany. I will give you some infos I got from different mostly European reso-related manufacturers. I divide the report in a few chunks to make it more readable.

Traditionally the Musikmesse is not a very reso-oriented fair, although it is the biggest fair of its kind worldwide. Especially the North American based reso-manufacturers are not represented at all. But when you look at the European reso-market, the costs and the crisis it is not surprising.

Let me start with the homeland of the Dopeyras:

I've heard a lot of good things lately about Randy Kohrs' new Amistar tricone, both from Randy and members of his band. The Bluegrass Blog is reporting a new RK signature model announcement at the NAMM show. Nothing on the US distributor's website about the signature model yet, nor on Amistar's site either, although they do have some photos of Randy and Mike Auldridge playing Randy's Amistar at last year's Resosummit.