Honolulu, HI, (December 27, 2013)—QSC and Quilter Labs founder Patrick Quilter, a 1964 graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, will donate $1.6 million to his former high school across the next five years to fund the construction of a new recital hall and the purchase of stringed and native Hawaiian instruments.
by Kelleigh Welch In 1942, while training with the Air Force, Harold Burroughs Rhodes created a laptop keyboard from scrap plane materials he found around the airfield. The invention would carry on to become one of the most revolutionary instruments in the music industry, and now that story has been captured in the sumptuous Book and Blu-ray set, Down The Rhodes: The Fender Rhodes Story.
"When I grew up, I was a liner note-reader; now we're in what we call the Information Age, and credits may be the only [piece of information] that used to be around that doesn't exist now. The reason I'm even doing what I'm doing as a writer and producer is because of growing up looking at liner notes." —Grammy-award winning producer Jimmy Jam. From the latest issue of Pro Sound News; want to read more? Click here to subscribe to our free online edition!