The list of benefits is long: Players of niche instruments now have more access to teachers.
The accordion's popularity started to wane with the rise of Elvis, the electric guitar and rock 'n' roll, which eventually banished it to niche-instrument status, popular during Oktoberfest and in polka clubs.
Once a niche financial instrument, sukuk have become a mainstream alternative source of capital for corporations.
That firm designs microchips that can be easily programmed by makers of niche goods such as audio equipment, musical instruments and fitness monitors.
Most musical instruments wear out or are consigned to niche markets by design changes.
Celestron's line, as well as the LightSwitch line from Meade Instruments in Irvine, Calif., fills that last niche in automation, he said.
The University of South Carolina, now a model for the rest of the country, is doing work here that may at best keep the violin a mainstream instrument and at worst provide it a permanent niche.
We're very excited by the evolution of a particular niche that we see in the music industry, which sort of revolves around these acoustic instruments...mandolin, violin, upright bass, banjo, dobro, etc.
A natural niche for Japan would be technology developments in the service sector – such as the development of diagnostic instruments in the health-care industry.
So there was a niche waiting to be filled by friendly young men who write their own songs, play their own instruments and come across as genuine and uncontrived, singing from the heart.
There is money to be made in niche products for niche users and crowdfunding is definitely the way forward for fans of board games, writing instruments, odd electronics, and the like.
