Triumphal Procession
28Mar 2012
- Michael Buchner (inventor) and Mario Schmitt (product manager) at the ceremony
- the ultimate selection
- wide range of bongos
- wide range of cajons
- visitors having fun at the booth
- the next generation
- the m.i.p.a. award for our slap-top cajon
- roland peil on our cubano retro congas
- ramesh shotham and jose j. cortijo
- dany schnyder checking out our new artisan cajons
- joannie labelle and annelie bum
Back from Frankfurt with lots of new ideas and an award for the best percussion product in 2012... YES!
We got our eighth m.i.p.a. award for the Slap-Top Cajon.
The unique cajon is a conceptual step up to a new level. It is designed to bring the striking surface up closer to the player for a more upright playing style. The sound projects forward into the audience. High and low tones as well as a snare effect are built in to the sound board. The invention was given to us by Michael Buchner.
Thanks to everybody that came by our booth! Thanks for the good business, the constructive feedback, and the positive vibes.
But most of all: thanks to our customers for loving our instruments - we put our heart and soul into their creation!
Check out some impressions from the show.
Mario Schmitt
Michael Jackson Immortal Tour - feat. Taku Hirano
24Feb 2012
MEINL artist Taku Hirano is currently on world tour with Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson The Immortal.
For this gig we prepared some stunning customized drums in sparkling gold.
They are touring all over North America until August 2012, followed by an European tour in October.
Don't miss it!
Mario Schmitt
Check out this official teaser:
MEINL PERCUSSION RAISES THE BAR... OVER AGAIN
12Jan 2012
Dear readers,
Greetings from our German headquarters - we wish you all the best for 2012!
I proudly can say that we are very optimistic for the new year due to our felicitous novelties. We have more than 60 new items that we are going to introduce at the upcoming NAMM show in sunny California next week!
Yes, we raised the bar over again :-)
We have so many new high-lights that I find it difficult to call one a favorit. But I definitely love the new ARTISAN EDITION CAJONS and the ARTISAN EDITION TAMBOURINES - real gems!!!
The new SLAP-TOP CAJON which allows the player many great possibilities is also very cool... It's just like a drum kit on your lap and absolutely comfortable to play - make sure to check it out!
Same for the MARACLAVES, the MULTI-JINGLE STICK, or the UNIVERSAL TRIANGLE! Man, I could go on and on...
Just visit our booth if you have a chance (NAMM show, Anaheim, booth #3454). We'll be happy to show you our new inventions.
MEINL artist Joannie Labelle will be at our booth, helping me to demonstrate the new instruments.
If you're not able to attend the show - download our new catalog here.
Sincerely,
Mario Schmitt
PS. Find enclosed two new videos. More will follow soon.
NAMM 2011
19Jan 2011
- NAMM convention center anaheim
- some customer played our ibo drum
- meinl artist larry salzman
- josh from meinl us sales team
- our new FX pedal in action
- paul from tomback, ecuador
- meinl cymbals & percussion booth
- mitch mcmichen - president of meinl us
- meinl rocks (juan arturo berrios)
- our new pro bongo cajon
- phil lopez taking some footage
- meinl artist josé cortijo
- the ultimate selection of percussion
- bernie amon - EMEA division
- our new kanjira
- mario schmitt - product manager
- ameenah kaplan checking out our cajons
- mrs. meinl
- our new foot tambourine
- linden degurian during a shoot at our booth
- diana f shores jamming with our frame drums
- julia from our russian distributor
- alexander meinl
- nice looking booth
- busy times
- claudio - our italian distributor
- luis conte with alex and mr. meinl
hi everybody,
we had a great time at NAMM again. the business went good and it was also nice to meet with some friends. attached you'll find some impressions of the show.
thanks to everybody that dropped by our booth.
mario
MEINL PERCUSSION all over the place
02Nov 2010
- impression from world expo - shanghai. featuring our headliner series djembes
- impression from a huge police show with 17.000 visitors - hamburg. featuring our headliner®series congas
- impression from a huge police show with 17.000 visitors - hamburg. featuring our headliner®series congas
today i received two kind emails - one from hamburg, germany and one from shanghai, china.
two different events but kinda like the same vibe ;-)
check out the enclosed files.
mario
thanks to arend schmidt-landmeier and to zhang ke for sharing!
IMPRESSIONS FROM THE 2010 MEINL DRUM FESTIVAL
07Jul 2010
- happy visitors
- stephan haenisch tuning the surdos
- drummers with our hand percussion
- waiting for the factory tour
- gergo borlai from hungary
- drum fans
- visitor with our african style djembe
- percussion slatwall
- bertil mark and oli rubow during their master class
- visitors
- dave mackintosh featuring his signature attack timbales
- drum circle
- bill saragosa and mario schmitt after setting up the percussion tent
- kid with luis conte shakers
- percussion slatwall and congas from the contest
- thomas lang in action
- stephan maass enjoyed the day
- drummers testing hihats
- impression from the drum circle
- a family checking out our sea drum
- holger mertin on stage
- damien schmitt hard-hitting
- mrs. meinl and gomez from reamonn
- passion
- charly boeck does the drum circle
- benny greb and frank itt at their master class
- beat the rhythm with your hands
- the flyer is upside-down... whatever ;-)
- josé cortijo and lerryns hernández
- drum tech tommy noack
- drum circle
- bertil mark in action
- der holger
- guys from tollwerk with dave mackintosh
- chris coleman grooving
- drum circle
- lerryns from venezuela
- oli rubow experimental
- view from the stage in our huge tent
- charly boeck jamming
- tugba learns how to play frame drum
- bill saragosa in his element (the bigger, the louder, the better)
hi friends,
our annual meinl drum festival is gone and our team is already working on the next one which is going to take place on 2nd of july 2011 in mexico city!
this year, we had round about 2.000 visitors, perfect weather, and a magnificient atmosphere. thanks to all visitors, drummers, and cooperator for this felicitous event!
attached you'll find some impressions from the show.
mario
ps. special thanks to nadja vogel and david brenner for capturing those great moments!
CONGA DESIGN CONTEST IS OVER AND THE WINNERS ARE...
30Jun 2010
- MEINL contest winner! #1
- MEINL contest winner! #2
- MEINL contest winner! #3
today at 12pm our conga design contest has ended.
and the winners are:
#1 - anne-sophie innmann
#2 - junior high school hof
(thomas kuttkowski, kevin trivel, christiana gemeinhard)
#3 - nadine schilling and florian hagmueller
thanks to all the creative people for the nice designs and to everybody out there for the votes! it was a very exciting and interesting project... maybe we'll have something similar in the future.
stay tuned!
mario
MEINL DRUM FESTIVAL
23Jun 2010
dear friends,
my trip to bangkok went pretty good. we are working on nice and promising projects... can't wait to see first prototypes!
next upcoming high-light will be the MEINL DRUM FESTIVAL 2010 which is going to take place this saturday! you can imagine that everybody is working to capacity right now...
we got meinl percussion artist holger mertin for a stunning frame drum performance. bertil mark will be jamming together with oli rubow along some electronic beats. bill saragosa and charly boeck are going to entertain our visitors with drum circles during the whole day! and last but not least we present an exquisite selection of some of the best drummers nowadays! make sure to check the website and drop by if you have a chance.
even meinl artist lerryns hernandez (bongo project) from venezuela is visiting us later today! will be great to finally meet in person...
beside the two stages we will have a wide cymbal and percussion exhibition including the 30 designed congas from our contest!
i'm looking forward to this event and i hope many of you are going to show up!
mario
RATE YOUR FAVORITE DESIGN!
29Apr 2010
our online voting contest for the best conga design has started!
check out all the designs we got from our artists and fans and vote for them.
the contest will last until 30th of june! we are also going to exhibit all congas at our meinl drum festival.
thanks again to all attendees for their designs and incredible work!
mario
MUSIKMESSE REVIEW
30Mar 2010
- meinl cymbals and percussion
- jose j cortijo
- holger mertin in action
- lets play frame drum
- percussion slatwall
- passion for percussion
- roland peil likes our new vented jingle pandeiros
- the taku hiranu signature hand-bale with its mipa award
- max klaas plays with our new pro-tablas
- happening at the booth
musikmesse frankfurt is over and everybody is catching up with emails and other responsibilities. but i have to say that the show has been very positive for us. we had a nice booth, met with many great friends, did some good business, and came home with our seventh m.i.p.a. award : ) so i would say, it's been worth the trouble!
i will post some photos from the event to give you an idea of the happening if you couldn't have been there.
thanks to everybody that came to our booth and special thanks to holger mertin for helping me with performances and demonstrations during the trade show.
mario
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