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Martel Music to hold guitar string swap this weekend
Musicians can recycle/replace instrument strings on Feb. 20 at Yandas
Yandas Music in Grand Island is hosting a free event for musicians to recycle and replace their old instrument strings with D’Addario NYXL or Nickel Bronze Acoustic strings.
Old strings collected will be recycled through Playback, the world’s first instrument string recycling program.
Sponsoring the event are D’Addario and TerraCycle, an international recycler of hard-to-recycle waste. The collected metal strings will be converted into recycled alloys, which are commonly used in the construction of guitar necks, and the recycled nylon will be used in automotive applications, for example.
The event is scheduled from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Yandas Music, 1004 Diers Ave., Suite 150.
For more information, call (800) 338-6939.
These Martin Guitars were born out of Superstorm Sandy's devastation at Jacobsburg
Superstorm Sandy hit hard seven years ago at Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center in Bushkill Township.
“We had a lot of storm damage,” said Rob Neitz, manager of the Pennsylvania state park. “We lost a lot of our big trees.”
Out of the devastation, the Martin Custom Shop at legendary guitar maker C.F. Martin & Co. has built guitars out of the wood of some of those trees felled by the storm.
Only three were built and, no, you can’t buy one. You can see them, though, at both the Jacobsburg visitors’ center and at the Martin Guitar factory in Upper Nazareth Township. The third is part of the guitar maker’s archives, spokeswoman Kristi Bronico said.
The design, according to Martin, features “book-matched Norway spruce for the top and the internal braces, white oak for the back, sides and head-plate, and ash for the neck. The unique inlays in the red oak fingerboard feature a variety of insects that may be found in the park.”
Martin inlay artist Sean Brandle hand-inlaid into the pick-guard the logo of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, which owns and operates the hilly park surrounding two miles of Bushkill Creek watershed streams.
The storm hit Oct. 29, 2012, spawned when Hurricane Sandy merged with two other weather systems. Beyond eastern Pennsylvania, it devastated the oceanfront coastline and caused catastrophic flooding in New York and cities in New Jersey. It was blamed for at least 182 deaths and $65 billion in damage in the U.S.
At Jacobsburg, Sandy compounded tree damage sustained one year earlier, when an unseasonably heavy snowstorm struck Halloween weekend in 2011, Neitz said. The park remained open as maintenance staff cut up the felled trees.
The idea for creating guitars out of some of the trees brought down by Sandy stemmed from a relationship between the park and the nearby company, whose guitars have been played by legions of stars from John Prine to Jason Isbell, Willie Nelson to Weezer, David Crosby to Chris Cornell, Sturgill Simpson to Amanda Shires, Johnny Cash to Elle King and on and on and on.
“We are right in their backyard,” said Neitz, who doesn’t play guitar himself but has heard Jacobsburg’s guitar strummed.
Neitz said salvaging the fallen trees’ remains demonstrates Martin Guitar’s commitment to sustainability in wood-resource management.
“Martin Guitar considers its commitment to sustainability a core value,” the company says. “At Martin, sustainability extends beyond environmental responsibility to the communities with whom we work to source our materials. Martin’s commitment is both local to Pennsylvania and global to Central America, Congo and India.”
Martin Guitar says its sustainability practices include:
- "Save the Elephants: Martin Guitar is proud to be a Founding Partner for The Nature Conservancy’s #SaveElephants campaign.
- "Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification: For 19 years, Martin Guitar has maintained Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody Certification first certified by the Rainforest Alliance and currently certified by NEPCon.
- "B Corporation Certification: In 2018 Martin Guitar received B Corp certification, meeting the highest standards of positive impact on society and the environment.
- "Wood Alternatives: On hundreds of guitars daily, Martin substitutes FSC certified Richlite (a recycled paper and resin), high pressure laminates, and sustainably harvested birch laminates rather than rosewood, ebony, mahogany and spruce.
- "Reforestation Efforts: Martin Guitar underwrites reforestation projects of mahogany and rosewood species in Nicaragua, maple in Pennsylvania and koa in Hawaii.
- "Indian Forest Management Plan: In 2019, Martin financed a Dalbergia (rosewood) field study in India which will support development of a forest management plan.
- "Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB) Hospital: Martin Guitar has made a three-year financial commitment to the community hospital in the Republic of Congo where we source our FSC certified ebony. The money is earmarked for specific programs and training dedicated for Indigenous people’s health care.
- "Energy Generation: The saw dust that we generate in manufacturing is compacted into pellets which are burned locally to generate energy.
- “Strings Recycling: Martin is a supporting sponsor of (D’Addario & Company Inc.’s Playback Program), a musical instrument strings recycling program managed by TerraCycle, that has collected and recycled millions of strings.”
These Martin guitars were born out of Superstorm Sandy’s devastation at Jacobsburg
Superstorm Sandy hit hard seven years ago at Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center in Bushkill Township.
“We had a lot of storm damage,” said Rob Neitz, manager of the Pennsylvania state park. “We lost a lot of our big trees.”
Out of the devastation, the Martin Custom Shop at legendary guitar maker C.F. Martin & Co. has built guitars out of the wood of some of those trees felled by the storm.
Only three were built and, no, you can’t buy one. You can see them, though, at both the Jacobsburg visitors’ center and at the Martin Guitar factory in Upper Nazareth Township. The third is part of the guitar maker’s archives, spokeswoman Kristi Bronico said.
The design, according to Martin, features “book-matched Norway spruce for the top and the internal braces, white oak for the back, sides and head-plate, and ash for the neck. The unique inlays in the red oak fingerboard feature a variety of insects that may be found in the park.”
Martin inlay artist Sean Brandle hand-inlaid into the pick-guard the logo of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, which owns and operates the hilly park surrounding two miles of Bushkill Creek watershed streams.
The storm hit Oct. 29, 2012, spawned when Hurricane Sandy merged with two other weather systems. Beyond eastern Pennsylvania, it devastated the oceanfront coastline and caused catastrophic flooding in New York and cities in New Jersey. It was blamed for at least 182 deaths and $65 billion in damage in the U.S.
At Jacobsburg, Sandy compounded tree damage sustained one year earlier, when an unseasonably heavy snowstorm struck Halloween weekend in 2011, Neitz said. The park remained open as maintenance staff cut up the felled trees.
The idea for creating guitars out of some of the trees brought down by Sandy stemmed from a relationship between the park and the nearby company, whose guitars have been played by legions of stars from John Prine to Jason Isbell, Willie Nelson to Weezer, David Crosby to Chris Cornell, Sturgill Simpson to Amanda Shires, Johnny Cash to Elle King and on and on and on.
“We are right in their backyard,” said Neitz, who doesn’t play guitar himself but has heard Jacobsburg’s guitar strummed.
Neitz said salvaging the fallen trees’ remains demonstrates Martin Guitar’s commitment to sustainability in wood-resource management.
“Martin Guitar considers its commitment to sustainability a core value,” the company says. “At Martin, sustainability extends beyond environmental responsibility to the communities with whom we work to source our materials. Martin’s commitment is both local to Pennsylvania and global to Central America, Congo and India.”
Martin Guitar says its sustainability practices include:
- "Save the Elephants: Martin Guitar is proud to be a Founding Partner for The Nature Conservancy’s #SaveElephants campaign.
- "Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification: For 19 years, Martin Guitar has maintained Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody Certification first certified by the Rainforest Alliance and currently certified by NEPCon.
- "B Corporation Certification: In 2018 Martin Guitar received B Corp certification, meeting the highest standards of positive impact on society and the environment.
- "Wood Alternatives: On hundreds of guitars daily, Martin substitutes FSC certified Richlite (a recycled paper and resin), high pressure laminates, and sustainably harvested birch laminates rather than rosewood, ebony, mahogany and spruce.
- "Reforestation Efforts: Martin Guitar underwrites reforestation projects of mahogany and rosewood species in Nicaragua, maple in Pennsylvania and koa in Hawaii.
- "Indian Forest Management Plan: In 2019, Martin financed a Dalbergia (rosewood) field study in India which will support development of a forest management plan.
- "Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB) Hospital: Martin Guitar has made a three-year financial commitment to the community hospital in the Republic of Congo where we source our FSC certified ebony. The money is earmarked for specific programs and training dedicated for Indigenous people’s health care.
- "Energy Generation: The saw dust that we generate in manufacturing is compacted into pellets which are burned locally to generate energy.
- “Strings Recycling: Martin is a supporting sponsor of Playback, a musical instrument strings recycling program managed by TerraCycle, that has collected and recycled millions of strings.”
The guitars aren’t the only reminder of Sandy created out of storm damage. Lehigh University turned some of the trees brought down on its Bethlehem campus into furniture.
Event helps local musicians, food banks
BRADLEY — Local musicians are invited to attend a free recycle and restring event from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at King Music Inc. on Broadway in Bradley.
Sponsored by D’Addario and international recycling company TerraCycle, musicians can bring any used instrument strings for recycling and get their electric or acoustic guitars restrung with D’Addario NYXL or Nickel Bronze Acoustic strings.
Old strings collected during the event will be recycled through Playback, D’Addario’s free, national recycling program. In exchange for the restringing, King Music asks that visitors bring in six nonperishable food items that will be donated to the Knights of Columbus Notre Dame Council 7072.
“We’ve been searching for a solution for old string reuse after installing a new set on a guitar, so it’s great that D’Addario and TerraCycle are helping dealers confront this issue,” said store owner Benjamin King. “Recycling these strings, regardless of brand-name, will greatly minimize our store’s landfill contribution.”
Musicians interested in recycling through Playback can go to daddario.com/playback. For more information on the recycle and restring event, call King Music Inc. at 815-935-3222.
FREE guitar re-stringing with canned food donation
Biz Buzz: Napa Music Supply to host string recycle event and food bank donations
Napa Music Supply is hosting a free event for musicians to recycle and replace their old instrument strings with D’Addario NYXL or Nickel Bronze Acoustic strings on Wednesday, Nov. 20 from noon to 6 p.m.
Old strings collected will be recycled through Playback, an instrument string recycling program. In exchange for the new strings, Napa Music Supply asks customers to also bring in two or more non-perishable food donations to benefit a local food bank.
The event is sponsored by instrument string and accessories business D'Addario & TerraCycle, an international recycler of hard-to-recycle waste.
Watermelon Music in Davis hosting a free recycle and replace event
Yolo County musicians are invited to attend a free recycle and restring event at Watermelon Music in Davis on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sponsored by D’Addario and international recycling company TerraCycle, musicians can bring any old instrument strings for recycling and get their electric or acoustic guitars restrung with D’Addario NYXL or Nickel Bronze Acoustic strings. Old strings collected during the event will be recycled through Playback, D’Addario’s free, national recycling program.
In exchange for the restringing, Watermelon Music asks that patrons bring-in two cans of non-perishable food to benefit the local food bank. The collected metal strings will be converted into recycled alloys which are commonly utilized in the construction of guitar necks and the recycled nylon will be used in automotive applications, for instance.
As an independently owned and operated local music store, Watermelon Music has worked to provide products and services to musicians in Northern California for over 23 years. The retailer has a diverse inventory of musical instruments and hosts complete departments for fretted instruments, brass/woodwinds, orchestra, drums/percussion, and print music, as well as a selection of keyboards, pro-audio and home-recording gear.
Additionally, the “full-line” music shop offers instrument repairs, rentals and music lessons, free (or nearly-free) in-store workshops, concerts and clinics, and sponsors arts and music in local public schools.
Playback is the world’s first instrument string recycling program, launched through a partnership between D’Addario and innovative recycling company, TerraCycle. The program is a part of D’Addario’s Players Circle loyalty program and allows registered users to recycle their used strings in exchange for extra Players Circle points. Musicians attending the recycle and restring events will receive a code at the event, redeemable for extra Players Circle points. Points can be used towards merchandise or donated to the D’Addario Foundation, the company’s non-profit organization supporting music education in underserved communities.
“Instrument strings have been a huge waste for us in the past, and it’s great that D’Addario has teamed up with TerraCycle to provide a program for dealers that confronts this issue,” says store representative Erin Wall. “We are looking to minimize landfill usage by collecting used instrument strings, regardless of brand, for recycling.”
D’Addario has been committed to the environment, working to reduce their company’s packaging waste and use the most environmentally responsible packaging available on the market. Their partnership with TerraCycle allows them to further reinforce their role as an environmental leader in the music industry.
TerraCycle is a global leader in recycling typically non-recyclable waste, working with companies to implement recycling initiatives and finding solutions for materials otherwise destined for landfill.