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Nagoya Suzuki See --> Suzuki Violin Co.
Natal (Pecussion & drums) See --> Marshall
National See --> KMC Music (Guitar picks)
Native Instruments GmbH
German company tham makes audio processing, musical instument and synthesiser emulations in VST and other plug-in standards in addition to DJ software and hardware controllers, sequencers, control surfaces, audio interfaces and utility software. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : In Australia by Central Musical Instruments, in Croatia by Provox, in Hungary by Absolute Bt. and Pako, in Iceland by Tónastöðin, in Lebanon by Ragtime Technology Group, in South Africa by Tuerk Musical Technologies, in Thailand by S.D.K. Technology Innovation, in Turkey by Akalin Muzik Elektronik
Native Instruments GmbH, Schlesische Straße 29-30, D-10997 Berlin, Germany.
Tel: +49 30 61 10 35 0. Fax: +49 30 61 10 35 2600.
Native Instruments North America, 6725 Sunset Boulevard, 5th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA.
Tel: +1 323 467 5260. Fax: +1 323 372 3676.
Navigator (Guitars) See --> ESP Co.
Neat See --> Frank Neat
Negri (Cases) See --> Luis Negri
Neil W. Brook
UK based maker of wheel fiddles (hurdy gurdys) both folk variants and medieval style symphonies and historical fretted instruments. Also produces educational material for such instruments in the form of DVD's. -- Official homepage.
Mr. Neil W. Brook., 1. Shire Bank Crescent., Fulwood, Preston. PR2 9QE, Lancashire, England.
Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1772 774650. E-Mail: nwbrook [at] gmail.com.
Nelson Enterprises
Company run by Larry S. Nelson that sometimes trades as Roberts Engineering, sells valve oil under the Blue Juice brand.
Distribution : In the UK by Bill Lewington Ltd. and Barnes & Mullins
Larry S. Nelson, 114 Cliffwood Court, Greer, SC 29650, USA .
Tel: +1 864 268 3253. E-Mail: lnelson268 /at\ aol.com.
Neotech (Straps & harnesses) See --> Op/Tech USA
New Sensor Corporation
USA based company that manufactures effect pedals, guitar strings, guitar amplification, signal processors and guitar related accessories under the Electro-Harmonix name and thermionic valves under the Electro-Harmonix, Mullard, Tung-Sol, Sovtek, Svetlana and Gold Lion brands. Prior to the acquisition of the E-H name the company used the Sovtek name to brand guitar pedals and related products.
Please note that the company has simply re-registered the Mullard, Tung-Sol and Gold Lion brands in the USA and in the case of Tung-Sol elsewhere as well, they have no connection business or technology wise to Philips, Lectric, GE or OSRAM and other companies that used to make products under those names in the past, and despite reports to the contrary NSC did not purchase the names but simply re-registered them, and that is perfectly legal. Also note that the company tried to trademark common valve names in the 90’s and that they do not have the rights to all of the aforementioned trademarks except in the USA and Canada so valves sold under the Svetlana, Mullard and Golden Lion names in the USA may be sold under the Sovtek or E-H names in Europe and Asia. This means that the company's practice of implying in their product descriptions that their current crop of valve products “has history” is misleading at best, their valves are after all just re-branded Russian consumer level products. The claims that they are re-issuing valves in particular borders on dishonesty, these "re-issues" are simply functionally similar designs; they have not even made an effort to clone them properly which would be the least you would expect in the case of a re-issue.
The military-spec Svetlana products were distributed in the USA by New Sensor but the company registered the trademark and logo in its own name in 2003/4 and has since been supplying valves made in their own factory as Svetlana products in the USA and Canada, they even modified the colour arrangement of the NSC/Relfektor made valves to look like the original Svetlana products which makes complaints from the company about Chinese knockoffs of their pedals seem a little hypocritical, not the least since when NSC started making copies of E-H pedals in the 90’s they themselves had neither the rights to the E-H name nor designs. -- Official homepage. -- Electro-Harmonix -- Alternative homepage
Distribution : In Indonesia by Melodia Musik, in Japan by Nihon Electro Harmonix and in New Zealand by South Pacific Music. MI products distribution only : In Ecuador by Banlow S. A., in Greece by I. Diamantopoulos, in Iceland by Tónastöðin, in Switzerland by Sacher Music, in Thailand by Rock Planet and Sound About Group and in Taiwan by Tun Huang Music. Thermionic valve distribution only : In Australia by Soundlabs Group, in Poland by RCM Audio, in Switzerland by Sacher Music (Sovtek only) and in Thailand by Audio Excellence.
New Sensor Corporation, 55-01 2nd Street, Long Island City, NY 11101, USA.
Tel: +1 718 937 8300. Fax: +1 718 937 9111.
Nicolas Parola (Classical string instruments) See --> Gatchell Violins Co.
Nilton AB
Swedish company, amongst other products they manufacture musical instrument stands, seating, pro-audio lightinstands and trussing but are best known for their "Nilton Magic" stand which is a music stand that collapses into itself to becoma a self-contained unit for transport. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : In the USA by Shar Products
Nilton AB, Älgvägen 1, 428 34 Kållered, Sweden.
Tel: +46 (0)31 795 01 50. Fax: +46 (0)31 795 00 45.
Nord See --> Clavia DMI
Nikko Seiki Co.
Japanese manufacturer of metronomes, these are usually sold as just Nikko these days but in the past they have been sold with the company's full name since there were at that time other Japanese companies selling under the Nikko Audio brand. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : In France, Italy and Spain by Carisch SRL
Nikko Seiki Co., 1-16-10, Aobadai, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0042, Japan.
Tel: ++03 3463 2511. Fax: ++03 3463 2514. E-Mail: info [AT] nikkoseiki.com
Nikolay Andreev
Russian maker of hand built classical guitars also supplies rosettes to other guitar makers, based in Moscow.
Note that Mr. Andreev is not an easy man to track down, we have seen some of his guitars and managed to confirm that he has been active in guitar building at the least very recently (2009/2010), pics of them can be found on the net and examples of his rosettes are shown on the webpage listed below, however he is not in the Moscow phone directory and cannot speak English so the contact method usually given out is via his friend Andrei Golitsyn who does speak English, but his E-Mail is amgolin@geol.msu.ru but that contact info may be outdated. -- Basic info in English and examples of his rosettes
Nikolay Gusev
Russian acoustic guitar repairman based in Moscow that sometimes trades as Grey Goose Guitar, this is the gent that most of the high end Russian builders point to when you ask them for repair advise. He has been known to make high end guitars as well on a custom basis, mostly steel string and classical style guitars, some using exotic materials such as reclaimed sunk hardwoods, but that is mostly a sideline to the repair work.
Note that his name is sometimes transliterated as above but sometimes as Nikolai Gusev or even Nikolai Gusef. -- Official homepage.
Nikolay Gusev, Tel: +7 495 506 1049. Tel/Fax: +7 095 310 2491. E-Mail: ggoose {at} mail.ru.
Nordiska (Pianos) See --> Gibson Guitar Corp.
North Texas Oboe Reeds and Cane
USA based maker of oboe reeds, also retails new oboes. -- Official homepage.
North Texas Oboe Reeds and Cane, P.O. Box 567991, Dallas, TX 75356, USA.
Tel: +1 214 289 3493..
Noteheads
Swedish developer of the Igor Engraver notation software. -- Official homepage.
NoteWorthy Software Inc.
USA based company that makes "Noteworthy Composer" a fairly simple notation software for Windows computers. -- Official homepage.
NoteWorthy Software Inc., PO Box 211, Valdese, NC 28690-0211, USA.
Tel: 1 888 689 6784 (Tol free, USA & Canada only). E-Mail: sales (at) noteworthysoftware.com.
Nova (Drumsticks) See --> Avedis Zildjian Company
Nuvo-Instrumental
British company that manufacture the Clarinéo, a clarinet like instrument made out of plastic with simplified fingering and tuned in C intended for students.. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : In Australia by Kurt Jacob & Co., in Belgium by AB Music, in Canada by B&J Music Ltd, in France by SML and in Italy by Carisch SRL. Worldwide distribution by Trust Network
Nuvo-Instrumental, 11 Tinley Garth, Kirbymoorside, North Yorkshire YO62 6AR, GB.
Tel: +44 (0)1751 433379.
Nyman Harts
Swedish company that manufactures rosins for double basses sold under the Nyman, Nyman-Harts and Carlsson brands, company run by Hans Nyman. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : Carsson branded rosins are distributed in the USA by Shar Products. Non-exclusive distribution/wholesaling by Petz Kolophonium
Nyman Harts, Ankdammsgatan 40, S-171 67 Solna, Sweden.
Fax: +46 8 83 99 95. E-Mail: info %at% nymanharts.se
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