Klarinet Archive - Posting 000488.txt from 1999/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Artist quality instruments from local stores
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 22:31:04 -0400

At 07:59 PM 7/16/1999 -0400, Mark Charette wrote:
>From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
>> At 05:39 PM 7/16/1999 -0400, Mark C. wrote:
>> >Just a small point:
>> >All the mail order houses that I know of for woodwind instruments are
>also
>> >local stores. None that I know of are just "warehouses". The only two
>I've
>> >personally visited are IMS and WW & BW, but I'm pretty sure that all the
>> >other popular ones have stores.
>> >
>> True, but that is a relatively small part of their business. Only this
>> year did Woodwind and Brasswind open a showroom with wind instruments.
>
>Bill, do you know if any started as a local shop & went into mail-order, or
>if they started as mail-order and opened a local shop?
>
I'm not sure. I was not there at the start (I left the area in 1973), but
it is likely. I have been in their old store (I believe actually their
second location) several times in the last 7 years. I was even offered a
job, but I did not want to move. Their store had only limited space for
display, mostly of guitars and drums. The larger store had been planned
since at least 1993, but was not completed until this summer. Apparently
not a very high priority project.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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