Based in the Milwaukee suburb of New Berlin, Wisconsin, musical instrument retailer Cascio Interstate Music provides musical instruments and accessories to amateur and professional musicians of all ages, as well as music educators at over 100,000 schools and universities. Products carried cover the nation’s top musical instruments and accessory categories and brands, including Drum Sets, World Percussion, Electric Guitars & Basses, Amplifiers, Acoustic Guitars, Keyboards & Digital Pianos, Home and Pro Recording Gear, Live Sound, Brass and Woodwind Instruments, plus Sheet Music Books & Educational DVDs.
Nationally, Casio Interstate ranks in the top 15 among musical instrument retailers, as well as being one of the nation's top drum retailers. The website www.interstatemusic.com features over 100,000 musical products, marketed through a variety of social media and email marketing developed in-house. Product catalogs for the drum and school markets nationwide are also designed and edited in-house.
Cascio also designs, markets and manufactures proprietary brand musical instruments, grouped under the umbrella of ARU Music, which include the main brands of Union Drums, Archer Guitars, Ravel Band Instruments and Melokia Ukuleles. ARU Music’s products and brands are carried at fine online retailers across the USA including Target, Best Buy, Kohls, Walmart, Amazon, and more. Additional brands developed recently include M. Ravel String Instruments, le'Var Band Instruments, Omâlha Ukuleles, Union One Earth Percussion and Gravity Pedals, as well as artist-series Archer Guitars.
In the local Milwaukee/Southeastern Wisconsin marketplace, Cascio Interstate Music SuperStore in New Berlin (Wisconsin’s largest music store) offers a comfortable retail shopping environment with large display areas and friendly service. Along with the vast selection of instruments and accessories, the store offers private music lessons, free educational clinics, musical instrument rentals, musical instrument and electronic repair, and more.
In the past decade, additional community involvement has included concert sponsorships at area theaters and venues, sponsorship of a stage for local/regional bands at Summerfest, (the world's largest outdoor music festival), sponsorship of the Bucks Beats drumline for the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, and sponsorship of the Wilson Center Guitar Competition & Festival.
Overall, Casio Interstate Music combines superior service, huge selection, fast and free shipping, and guaranteed lowest prices to its customers. The Company started in 1946 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and remains proudly independently owned, operated, and run by musicians.