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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-03-07 04:04
As a user of sheet music I cannot even fathom this. I begrudgingly shop on line for solos and exercise books (J.W. Pepper), having grown up with a Carl Fischer's in downtown Chicago.
You CANNOT obtain serious editions of music through free online sources. You still have to find competent retailers. I think it's a matter of subsequent generations not having been informed through ADVERTISING that places like this exist (particularly in this case as described in the article).
Those of you still out there need to get in Twitter and Snap-Chat pronto before J.W. Pepper is all we have left.
..............Paul Aviles
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Author: Wisco99
Date: 2015-03-07 05:42
This reminds me of record stores. Even when things went to CD the stores eventually disappeared. I took a trip from Milwaukee to Chicago with a friend in high school to go to Carl Fisher, and it was a big event for us. Having worked for Hal Leonard twice, they are the world's largest music print publisher. They have bought up the rights to most publishers or the distribution rights. You can check their site out to order music, but it is just not the same as going into a music store with a great collection of music. This closing marks the end of an era.
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Author: Ed
Date: 2015-03-07 06:02
Frank Music was a great shop. It is sad to hear.
sigh
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2015-03-07 07:39
I visited that store during my last trip to NYC three years ago. It was not very obvious to find; as I recall the elevator seemed pretty shakey. I was impressed by the store, it was like stepping back decades, at least, into the past. The owner waited on me. I purchased several works by Rudolf Jettel. She just knew where in the vast stacks they were. There was no computer to be seen, which I commented on. The owner said she was considering implementing a website, but apparently that never happened.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2015-03-07 23:21
Wow. Well, I guess this news was inevitable, but I still enjoy leafing through a score in my local music shop before I decide whether or not to buy that music. Browsing the file cabinets, I've also found and purchased music it never would have occurred to me to buy -- including music I'd never heard of before.
Not sure the online experience works quite that way, since I tend to get irritated with the websties' pop-up suggestions about what I might like next. I "X" those suggestion boxes on automatic pilot, without paying much attention to them, as if they were pesky salespeople who wouldn't leave me alone, even though when I browse in a music store, I tend to take a look at just about everything that's unfamiliar.
Not that I ever find much unfamiliar music for clarinet, of course -- I'm thinking more about browsing the vast quantity of music for piano. For clarinet it's same old limited repertory for sale, year after year. If I need a fresh copy of the Brahms sonatas or the Mozart concerto, I'm just as happy to order those online.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: eddiec ★2017
Date: 2015-03-08 05:13
Something that would get my business is richer, fuller pop arrangements. I mean this mostly in piano sheet music, but to a lesser degree in instrumental. Most of what you see (and apparently, what sells) is "big note" arrangements. Sure, a lot of rock/pop is fairly well covered by no more than two notes at a time, one of which is a whole note in the bass.. but some deserves a better treatment than that.
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