Klarinet Archive - Posting 000462.txt from 2000/12

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Ash in Columbus
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 16:20:59 -0500

At 10:55 AM 12/8/2000 -0800, you wrote:

>The Sam Ash in Columbus, OH is actually decent. That pathetic
>hole in the wall on 48th in Manhattan is a sorry excuse. The
>one in Columbus is easily 10 times larger, with a full selection
>of instruments and the whole ball of wax. Decent prices, too,
>not that this information is terribly useful to you, but you
>might find yourself in Columbus one day...

I quite agree about Columbus. My S.O. used to live there before she came
back to Jersey, her "home port," and after my Centered Tone was overhauled
by some guys connected with Hauer Music on Morse Road (don't remember their
names but they put a second life in a dead horn), I made several trips to
the Ash out there to buy sheet music and generally slobber over the
stock. It's a fine store, and miles ahead of the 48th Street
version. There is also a place called Stanton's Sheet Music on South 4th
Street which, if it is not Frank Music or Patelson's, is a remarkably good
place with a huge inventory of material in all genres.

I find it a bit odd that even though I've lived in New Jersey since 1976
I've been in the Sam Ash in Paramus exactly once, and that was in 1977. I
have no idea how it stacks up against the New York store or any of the
others in the Ash chain. Getting anyplace in Jersey requires fighting
traffic from Hell, and I'd rather take an assembled contrabassoon onto a
New York subway at 5:30 than deal with Routes 1 or 4 on Saturday afternoon.

Ken

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unchanging essence, when they're gone from us, when we take into ourselves
their portions of them still available to us, to acknowledge them more
perfectly, more purely, and do homage to the fugitive, protean forms of
love of, and love from."--C.K. Williams, "Misgivings"

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