April 2010 - March 2011

Musican Expo is undertaking a detailed study of the MI Market in India. A report of the MI industry will be prepared alongwith a feasibility study for manufacturing, retail, education and music career. This MI Industry Report will be prepared in close cooperation with IMMA - Indian Musical Merchants Association.

Diversified Market Research offers a detail anaylsis of the imports with break down for items of Musical Instruments and other relevant information. For the cost of the report, please write at info@divcom.in

The CMIA committee warmly welcomed Mr. Anil Chopra, convenor, Musician Expo and Managing Director of Diversified Communications India, the organizer, to their head office in Beijing.

Seen in the photograph, left Mr. An Zhi, President of CMIA, Mr. Anil Chopra, Mr. Zeng Zemin,Secretory, Mr. Feng Yuankai,Vice secretory at the head office.

The Musician Expo was also warmly welcomes by CMIA at Music China Expo at Beijing. The friendship between the two organisations began at the Music China. (See photo)

The CMIA presented prestigious album of commerative stamps issued by the postal depth of china to honour the hundred years of CMIA.

The china postal authority also celebrated the CMIA 100^th anniversary in issuing stamps of classical Chinese musical instrument.

The CMIA is a very active association closely monitory and supporting the musical instrument industry in China. China exported 4,380,194 units of musical instruments to india in 2010.

The estimated musical instruments exported from china to india is 5.5 million units below is the details of exports of CMIA members to various countries in the world.

Click here to view the Chinese Musical Instrument Export Report.

The Programme will include works by Rachmaninov, Suchubert, Scriabin, Mussorgsky, Mendelssohn and saint Seans, and will showcase the launch of the new Steinway Model D Concert Grand Plano acquired by Furtados for use in the concerts and events in the city of Mumbai and in Western India.

By Megha Mahindru
Courtesy: Hindustan Times
January 22, 2011

Music composer and guitarist Ehsaan Noorani is one busy man these days. After making a very jetlagged presence at the Rock awards on Thursday, Noorani who recently arrived from Los Angeles is working on organising a mega bash to launch his signature series of guitars this month. “I’m excited. It’s an
honour to be an endorsee of a signature series. It doesn't get better than this,” says Noorani, who will be the first Indian to have a Fender Stratocaster series to his name.

Fender supplies a variety of signature models, each with specifications similar to those used by well-known performers across the world. Previously, Fender signature series endorsees include the likes of guitar gods such as Mark Knopfler, Elvis Costello, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and Jimi Hendrix. Contemporary guitarist John Mayer too has a series to his credit. “It’s a long process. The Fender distributor in India, Sara Trans, put forward the proposal last year to have my Squier Stratocaster series in India. It so happened that my friend from music school, Chris Jill was working on the project fro Fender. So we sat on the design and the specifications, and that’s how things just worked out.”

Noorani’s signature series will be available in four colours- blue, purple, red, green and is expected to hit stores in 20 days. “The neck shape is designed for smaller hands and has a comfortable size that suits Indian fingers,” adds Noorani. Although signature series usually differ significantly in terms of quality and construction, thereby making them much more expensive, Noorani adds that his electric guitar series will be modestly priced around Rs 30,000. “The response I've got so far from people who have played the guitar has been fantastic,” signs off the guitarist, who has a collection of over 20 guitars at home.