Chris Griffiths Joins American Music & Sound as M.I. Division Manager

American Music & Sound is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Griffiths as Division Manager of Musical Instruments. “As we continue to aggressively grow both our Pro Audio and Musical Instrument businesses, we are pleased to add Chris’ leadership to the MI side,“ comments Lynn Martin, President of AM&S. “This will allow Chris to use his 17 years experience to enhance our strengths across the many existing and new brands for MI both here in the US and Internationally.”


Griffiths has been working in the MI business since 1993 when he started his first business at the age of 19 – a specialized guitar custom shop and retail store. He later started Garrison Guitars in 2000 which he sold to Gibson Guitar in 2007 and remained on as the General Manager of Gibson Guitar Canada until recently finishing his transitional term.

“I am honored and excited to be entering American Music & Sound at such a time of wonderful opportunity. By building on their existing strengths, I plan to participate in the expansion of our US reach and International brand development. It is amazing to be a part of such an entrepreneurial organization.”

For more information please contact Chris Griffiths at 1.514.457.2555 (ext 2704) – chris.griffiths@americanmusicandsound.com

For more information about American Music & Sound, please visit www.americanmusicandsound.com

American Music & Sound (AM&S) distributes Allen & Heath professional audio mixing products, Focusrite Audio Engineering signal processing, Hagstrom Guitars, KV2 Audio speaker systems, EtherSound products by NetCIRA, a division of Fostex Japan, Novation Digital Music Systems synthesizers and controller keyboards, Stardraw.com web-enabled sales and design software tools, Turbosound professional loudspeaker systems, Vestax DJ and club sound equipment, UDG DJ bags and accessories, Quik Lok performance structures, Jay Turser Guitars, and Walden Guitars. For more information about AM&S, please visit http://www.americanmusicandsound.com