The 2013 NAMM Show in Anaheim

Antiquity Music demonstrates the wheelharp in its booth at the NAMM Show in Anaheim.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

The Ludwig drum company has a giant presence at this year’s show.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Musicians Hayley McClean and Fernando Jones hold an mpromptu jam session at the Gretsch booth in the Fender area.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Grammy-winning jazz guitarist George Benson, right, talks to visitors in the Fender area where the Artist Signature Amplifiers are on display.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Fender’s Diamond Legend Cabronita is one of the masterpieces from the Fender Custom Shop on display at the NAMM Show in Anaheim. Featuring 377 diamonds and a handcrafted fingerboard and headstock inlay with silver wire, the guitar built by Yuriy Shishkov sold for $120,000 dollars.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Crowds stream past the Ibanez guitar booth.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Guitarist Hal Negin gets a little quiet time with one of the guitars in the Fender room.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Roy Arias tries out an instrument at the NAMM show.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)