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    Shadows Fall's Brian Truthful: Trump tariffs inflicting “harm” to music instrument market

    James EvendenBy James EvendenApril 7, 20253 Mins Read
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    President Trump’s sweeping tariffs have shook the US financial panorama, and the music instrument market isn’t any exception.

    Along with fronting veteran metallic band Shadows Fall, Brian Truthful works for instrument distributor St. Louis Music, one of many largest distributors of musical devices and equipment in North America. Posting by way of his Threads account, Truthful shared a few of his first-hand observations of the “harm” already being brought on by Trump’s tariffs on the instrument market within the US, which depends closely on abroad manufacturing.

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    The metallic vocalist famous that the tariffs have already resulted in increased prices, which can inevitably result in increased costs for customers.

    “I work for an organization that owns quite a lot of devices manufacturers: guitars, percussion, orchestral strings, brass, woodwinds and so on. our touchdown prices have sky rocketed and people prices are being became increased costs that might be sadly be handed right down to the customers,” wrote Truthful. “We now have tried to keep away from will increase the place ever doable however a variety of it’s unavoidable. A few of these manufacturers was made within the US however that priced them totally out of the market so manufacturing shifted to abroad a few years in the past.”

    He continued, “I work straight with Primary St. brick and mortar music shops, some which might be barely scraping by. These will increase, regardless of how small, will make it much more tough for these shops to outlive. I’m in no way an skilled on worldwide commerce however I’m seeing the harm brought on by these tariffs first hand and that is only the start. Hope there may be nonetheless a market left as soon as the mud clears.”

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    Truthful then acknowledged that home manufactures and people unaffected by the tariffs will possible elevate their costs accordingly to match the inflated post-tariff market.

    “Additionally, the concept home or different producers which might be NOT affected by tariffs received’t elevate their costs to match the market haven’t paid consideration to historical past. We noticed costs elevated by these unaffected as quickly as they had been introduced and as we see with inflation, as soon as costs go up they don’t come down for any motive. The market resets, everybody jumps on board to maximise income no matter their prices and retains it shifting.”

    It’s a miserable prospect for musicians. Corporations corresponding to Fender craft a lot of their finances mannequin guitars in Mexico, whereas numerous devices and equipment are manufactured in China (i.e., drum producers PDP, Yamaha, and Pearl all checklist devices made in China on their web sites).

    Trump’s tariffs on imports type different international locations have despatched the inventory market tumbling, with the Dow Jones shedding practically 5,000 factors as of this posting for the reason that president’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement final Wednesday (April 2nd).

    Shadows Fall, in the meantime, will embark on a run of US tour dates in Might, kicking off with a set on the Sonic Temple pageant, and together with a lot of reveals supporting Killswitch Have interaction. Tickets can be found right here.



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