Mel Bay, founder and first president of Mel Bay Publications, Inc., died at age 84 on May 14, 1997. Mel Bay was born in the Missouri town of Bunker and raised in DeSoto where as a teenager he taught himself how to play the guitar and performed regularly with various Ozark region bands. His plans [...]
Carl Fischer Music looks back with pride with over 135 years of distinguished history as one of the few remaining family-owned music publishers and the leader in educational print music publishing. The company looks forward to the challenges posed by changing technologies and tastes of consumers worldwide. Throughout the years, Carl Fischer Music has educated [...]
