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It's Time to Talk Tariffs. (This one's a little long - TL;DR: at bottom). The last thing I want to do is take political sides, so I won't. But there is a stark reality in world trade right now: the current US government administration's on-again/off-again tariffs have created massive instability in world trade, and will, it seems, have resounding effects on the US economy. On a more micro-economic level, it means things are already starting to get more expensive for us, which means (unfortunatel …

Yeah - it's been a problem, not just for us, and not even just in the musical instrument industry. What's going on with all the stock outages and delays? Lately, we've had to put a few more items on backorder than we normally have to. Some of our amp and preamp manufacturers have been dealing with product shortages, and some of our basses have been suffering from availability issues as well. What's the deal?In a lot of cases, even US-made items rely on components that are sourced worldwide. Whet …