Mel Bay Publishing Inc

Mel Bay represents the best in music education and instruction along with great classical, jazz, Celtic music and more for all instruments. Renowned for guitar pedagogy, Mel Bay himself founded the company in 1947 with The Orchestral Chord System for Guitar, and after years of promoting his guitar books claimed to have known virtually every guitar teacher in America on a first name basis! Today, sales of Mel's Modern Guitar Method series are estimated to be well in excess of 20 million copies and established the structure for modern guitar education.