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FARMINGDALE – In its second takeover this year, J. D’Addario & Co. Inc. said it acquired Rico International, a Sun Valley, Calif.-based manufacturer of reeds and mouthpieces. D’Addario, a maker of ...

The company’s nonprofit D’Addario Foundation was created 35 years ago to make music education more accessible by providing grants — mostly to community-based nonprofits, but in some cases to needy ...

The world’s largest maker of musical instrument strings, D’Addario & Company, unveiled its latest innovation—the NYXL electric guitar string—with a tour of its new factory in Farmingdale and a special ...

For decades, D'Addario has manufactured strings for guitars and orchestral instruments with an eye on a more sustainable future. By Josh Glicksman Writer Since the 1970s, D’Addario has manufactured ...

A century ago, an immigrant who settled in Astoria set up a tiny, home-based guitar string manufacturing shop, continuing a family tradition that he brought with him from the Italian countryside. That ...

D’Addario has its new XS acoustic guitar strings, claiming to offer players "maximum life" and "an unprecedented level of strength and stability". To achieve the latter D’Addario combined its previous ...

There is a moment every guitarist knows. You’re standing at the bench, or maybe crouched on a tour bus floor, or hunched over a coffee table at two in the morning, with a fresh set of strings spread ...