The sign says it all. The Gretsch Company, which has been manufacturing instruments since its founding in Brooklyn, New York in 1883, now has a permanent museum to celebrate its legacy, promote music education for future generations, and even make some noise. That Great Gretsch Sound! was opened by Fred and Dinah Gretsch on November 18, 2021, along the river walk in Savannah, Georgia’s bustling Plant Riverside District. A partnership between the Fred and Dina Gretsch School of Music at Georgia Southern University and The Kessler Collection, the interactive museum is a featured attraction of District Live’s lobby and performance venue, and showcases 135 years of Gretsch instruments, as well as memorabilia from the Gretsch family archives. Fred and Dinah Gretsch flank the museum’s Limited-Edition 125th Anniversary kit, manufactured in 2008 to celebrate the 1920s- and ‘30s-era Gretsch-American Series four-piece be-bop drum sets. Although the walls and exhibit cases tend […]

November 2021 Issue