Type Division Key people Charles Kaman Parent organization U.S. Music Corporation Founded 1966 | Industry Musical instruments Website kmcmusic.com Founder Charles Kaman | |
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Predecessor Kaman Music Corporation Products String instruments
Brass instruments
Percussion instruments
Amplifiers Headquarters Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States Subsidiaries Ovation Guitar Company, Latin Percussion | ||
KMC Music, a division of Jam Industries, is an owner and distributor of several brands of musical instruments.
History
The company began as Kaman Music Corporation /kəˈmɑːn/, a part of the Kaman Corporation founded by Charles Kaman. In addition to his business interests in aviation, Kaman was a guitarist who came to explore the use of composite materials technologies in guitar building. He and his engineers created the round-backed, composite-body Ovation guitar in 1966.
In January, 2008, Kaman Corporation sold Kaman Music Corporation to Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) for $117 million.
In 2011, Kaman Music Corporation and Musicorp, sister companies under the FMIC umbrella, united their sales and catalog divisions as KMC Musicorp.
In 2014, FMIC sold KMC's Gretsch Drums, TOCA Percussion, Latin Percussion, KAT Percussion, Ovation guitar and Gibraltar Hardware brands to Drum Workshop.
In February 2015, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation sold KMC to Jam Industries