From jbgange@si.rr.com Tue Apr 20 10:23:36 2010
Subject:Re: Are there any stores that carry many of these different keyboards?

I'ts harder and harder these days. It's like no one plays for real anymore.
They just use plugins and press play. very sad.


> Geez..Just for the heck of it I tried Googling music stores in your area &
> you're right! Nada! Except Guitar Center!
> In the Seattle area we have a few choices luckily. Petosa Music did close
> down except for accordion sales. They carried all the cool stuff. Bought
> my
> first Electro there. They had Hammond clones, Leslie 2101's, Voce modules,
> etc. to try out. Also a great variety of software instruments all set up
> to
> demo. I miss that place!
> Norm
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:42 AM, raisindot wrote:
>
>>
>> Okay, a bit of a rant here, but I would love to be able to try out all of
>> the wonderful tonewheel keyboards as well as other controllers and
>> workstations that people mention here and that I drool over in the
>> Sweetwater and Musicians Friend catalogs.
>>
>> But, at least here in the Boston area, one of the great musical capitals
>> of
>> the world, the only choice you really have to see any even moderately
>> sized
>> collection of keyboards and synths is Guitar Center. And, at the one
>> local
>> to me, it stinks. Other than the top-shelf Yamahas, Rolands and Korgs,
>> the
>> rest of their selection is dismal.
>>
>> In your area is there a store that does carry a very large selection of
>> keyboards? How can the companies expect to sell these things if no one
>> can
>> try them out?
>>
>> Grrrrr.
>>
>> Jeff in Boston
>>
>
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> Norm
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