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Black Diamond Strings (Folk instrument strings and accessories) See --> Cavanaugh Company
Blackheart Engineering (Guitar & bass amps) See --> Loud Technologies
Black Sun (Strings) See --> Savarez
Blade (Guitars) See --> Levinson AG
Blessing brass See --> Verne Q. Powell Flutes
Blitz Inc.
USA based manufacturer of cleaning products, that includes a line of musical instrument specific products. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : Non-Exclusive distribution in the USA by David Wexler & Co.
Blitz Inc., 263 America Place, Jeffersonville, IN 47130, USA.
Tel: +1 812 284 2548. Fax: +1 812 288 7766.
Blue Juice (Valve oil) See --> Nelson Enterprises
Blüthner (Pianos & grands) See --> Julius Blüthner Pianofortefabrik GmbH
Bobak Violino
Polish classical string instrument workshop and instrument dealer based in Nowy Targ, in addition to making instruments branded with the company name they make instruments branded with individual resident master builder names including violins, violas and cellos marked Grzegorz Bobak or Jan Bobak, violins and violas marked Andrzej Swietlinski (In some countries marketed as just Swietlinski) and cellos by Jan Szlachtowski. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : Andrzej Swietlinski violins are distributed in Japan by Mac Corporation and in the USA by JR Music Supply alsongside Jan Szlachtowski cellos
Bobak Violino, Ogrodowa 95, 34-400 Nowy Targ, Poland.
Tel/Fax +48 18 2664727. E-Mail: violino (at) bobak.pl
Bobby Dukoff Mouthpieces
USA based maker of saxophone mouthpieces, usually marketed as plain Dukoff. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : Non-Exclusive distribution in the USA by David Wexler & Co.
Bobby Dukoff Mouthpieces, 14368 S.W., 139th Court, Miami, Florida, 33186, USA.
Tel: +1 305 255 3967. E-Mail: info at dukoff.com
Bobcat
Mouthpiece pullers, distributed in the UK by Bill Lewington Ltd. Non-exclusive distribution in the USA by Conn-Selmer.
Bonmusica (Violin rests) See --> Michael Hammel
Boss See --> Roland (Guitar pedals, signal processors etc)
Bösendorfer (Pianos) See --> L. Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik
Boulder Creek Guitars See --> Morgan Hill Music
Bowed (Strings) See --> D'Addario & Co.
Brancher France
A long running mouthpiece specialist that has more recently started producing professional saxophones, run by and named after Pascal Brancher. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : In France by SML
Brancher France, L'Etang, 71400 Saint Forgeot, France.
Tel: + 33 (0)3 85 52 76 56. E-Mail: mail -at- brancher-france.com
Breedlove Guitar Company
USA based manufacturer of steel string acoustic guitars & basses in addition to mandolins and ukuleles. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : In France by Algam, in Italy by Gold Music, in New Zealand by Music Works Ltd and in the UK by McClelland Music Ltd.
Breedlove Guitar Company, 2843 Lolo Drive, Bend, Oregon 97701, USA.
Tel: +1 877 800 4848. E-Mail: info =at= breedlovemusic.com
Brian Wampler
USA based gentleman that trades as Wampler Pedals, makes boutique guitar pedals. Started out in the early 2000’s trading as indyguitarist.com offering modification services, started in 2004 selling effect pedal kits and DIY publications with titles such as “DIY Effect Pedal Mod Secrets...REVEALED!”, by 2006 he was offering amplifier modifications as well and had started selling custom pedals on a small scale in addition to having changed his trading name slightly to plain “Indy Guitarist” and in 2008 started selling serially manufactured guitar pedals and changed the trading name again, this time to Wampler Pedals. -- Official homepage.
Brian Wampler, P.O. Box 353, Trafalgar, Indiana 46181, USA.
Tel: +1 765 352 8626. E-Mail: brian _at_ indyguitarist.com.
Brillhart See --> Conn-Selmer
Brodmann (Pianos) See --> Joseph Brodmann Piano
Bruce Zumsteg
USA based gentleman that manufactures pedal steel guitars and strings under the ZumSteel brand. The Stage One line from the company that used to be their beginner/student line is now manufactured by D. Verle LLC. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : In Denmark by Henning Kock
Bruce Zumsteg, 25625 South Brush College Road, Harrisonville, Missouri 64701, USA.
Tel: +1 816 380 4568.
Brunswick See --> Barnes & Mullins (Plucked string folk instruments)
B&S GmbH
German manufacturer of brass wind instruments under the B&S brand, horns and Wagner tubas under the Hans Hoyer name and rotary valve trumpets under the J. Scherzer label (In some countries marketed as just Scherzer), their "Wenzel Meinl GmbH" subsidary makes brass instruments and hunting horns under the Meinl-Weston and Melton brands but is best known for their tubas. All of the above are pro-level high end instruments but the company also has a brand of instruments called Talis that are made in China and are at student/mid level prices. Company formerly known as "JA Musik GmbH". -- Official homepage. -- Melton homepage (German) -- Meinl-Weston homepage (English) -- Talis homepage
Distribution : In France by SML
B&S GmbH, Isaak-Eschenbach-Platz 1, 08258 Markneukirchen, Germany.
Tel: +49 (0)3 74 22 581 0. Fax: +49 (0)3 74 22 20 90. E-Mail: info -at- b-and-s.com
Wenzel Meinl GmbH, Seniweg 4, 82538 Geretsried, Germany.
Tel: +49 (0)8171 9 21 87 0. Fax: +49 (0)8171 9 21 87 19. E-Mail: info _at_ melton.de
BSM (Treble booster pedals) See --> Meiser Electronics
BSX (Drums, stands, supports etc.) See --> Gewa Music
Buchla & Associates
Pioneering USA based synthesiser manufacturing firm run by Don Buchla. Has been for the last 3 decades best known for their digital synthesis products and MIDI controllers but these days only makes a self-contained analogue modular synthesiser and one model of a wand type MIDI controller. The company has been active in one form or another since the early 60’s and in addition to their own products have also designed products for Gibson and Moog Music. The company has announced it's intention to change its name to "Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments" later in 2012, but a takeover of the company by a group of music tech vererans headed by Michael Marans (owner of pro-audio distributor MV Pro Audio) in late 2011 prompted the move. -- Official homepage.
Buchla and Associates, P.O. Box 10205, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA.
Tel: +1 510 528 4446. E-Mail: buchlaandassociates (at) yahoo.com (Note that as an anti-spam measure the company will only respond to e-mails that contain the word 200e on the subject line).
Bucklegard (Guitar accessory) See --> Roleay Corp.
Buddy Blaze Fine Stringed Instruments
USA based company, makes electric guitars, both custom models from their own Hawaii factility and mass produced guitars that they make in Indonesia in association with PT Stranough Global Sound. -- Official homepage.
Buddy Blaze Fine Stringed Instruments, P.O. Box 580, Kailua Kona, HI 96745,USA.
Tel: +1 808 325 6353. fax: +1 808 325 5538. E-Mail: sales [at] buddyblaze.com.
Bundy See --> Conn-Selmer
Burns London Ltd.
UK based company that manufactures electric guitars & basses under the Burns name. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : In France by MGM
Burns London Ltd., PO Box 285, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9YB, England.
Tel: +44 (0)2087 833638
Burny (Guitars) See --> Fernandes
BUWI
Belgian company that manufactures MIDI and CV interfaces for the Copperlan standard, their products are sold under the Alyseum brand. -- Official homepage.
BUWI s.c.s, 12 Rue Hanzée, 1495 Tilly, Belgium..
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