{"id":151916,"date":"2026-01-25T15:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=151916"},"modified":"2026-01-25T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:59:39","slug":"generalmusic-returns-with-the-promise-of-new-gem-keyboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/01\/25\/generalmusic-returns-with-the-promise-of-new-gem-keyboards\/","title":{"rendered":"Generalmusic Returns, With The Promise Of New GEM Keyboards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_151973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151973\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/generalmusic-returns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-151973 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/generalmusic-returns-320x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/generalmusic-returns-320x247.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/generalmusic-returns-728x561.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/generalmusic-returns-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/generalmusic-returns-389x300.jpg 389w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/generalmusic-returns-1200x925.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/generalmusic-returns.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Marco Medica<\/strong>, left, and <strong>Fabio De Fazio<\/strong>, right, are bringing back Generalmusic and GEM synthesizers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/tag\/2026-namm-show\/\">2026 NAMM Show<\/a>, Italian keyboard and synth maker <strong>Generalmusic<\/strong> announced that it&#8217;s back in business.<\/p>\n<p>The brand&#8217;s releaunch will mark the return of two historic brands:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>GEM<\/strong>, dedicated to keyboards and digital pianos;and<\/li>\n<li><strong>LEM<\/strong>, focused on professional audio, installation, and broadcast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nostalgia for vintage keyboards and synthesizers has resulted in the renaissance of many brands in recent years, like Rhodes and Oberheim &#8211; along with companies like Moog and Sequential releasing new versions of some of their classic instruments. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Generalmusic is being reincarnated by Italian music industry veterans <strong>Fabio De Fazio<\/strong>, co-founder of the retailer StrumentiMusicali.net and <strong>Marco Medica<\/strong>, CEO of Audio Effetti, an Italian distributor of entertainment technology.<\/p>\n<p>The company is not making any official gear introductions at this time, but they say that they expect new products to be introduced as early as later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Details are to come at the <a href=\"https:\/\/general-music.com\/\">Generalmusic<\/a> site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/tag\/2026-namm-show\/\">2026 NAMM Show<\/a>, Italian keyboard and synth maker <strong>Generalmusic<\/strong> announced that it&#8217;s back in business.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/01\/25\/generalmusic-returns-with-the-promise-of-new-gem-keyboards\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Generalmusic Returns, With The Promise Of New GEM Keyboards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,27],"tags":[36060,29786,29787],"class_list":["post-151916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-keyboard-synthesizers","category-workstations","tag-2026-namm-show","tag-gem","tag-generalmusic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/generalmusic.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151975,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151916\/revisions\/151975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}