[dave brum]

Bauer & Hieber, as far as I know the ONLY sheet music seller in town will be closing permanently on 15th November. Get yourself down there, we've gotten ourselves a nice load of bargains and rest assured there'll be more markdowns as the dreaded date gets nearer.

[Moonlight]

Oh, thats sad Dave . Its such a shame music shops are hard to come by, bloodly modern life! people are too bleming lazy to get of their ariss and do some thing constructive . Sometimes I wish I was brought up when the piano was a cool instrument...

Maybe you could ask your piano teacher where she gets her music from there must be some music shops, a bus ride away.

My local music shop is a short bus ride away, its rather run down looking; if it closed I would be upset but I do have Chaples though.

There used to be a music shop really close to me actually, but it was there even before my parents. I found this out as there was this old vinyl record in a charity shop, and I thought the packaging ( hey I'm a designer! ) looked funky ( looks about 1930s ). Turns out it came from a music shop near me! its says on the cover, Saville Pianos, piano tuning and repairs, gramophones, sheet music...etc etc, and its got these nice illustrations on it. I stuck it on my bedroom wall!

Its just a little bit of history when the piano was a popular instrument, maby you might find a little bit of piano history near you?

[dave brum]

Brum is fifty eight miles from here (fifty eight too many as far as I'm concerned) but Worcester has a couple of sheet music shops and it's only 26, so Ada would most probably use Music 47 or Cranes in Worcester, or maybe go to Gloucester (32 miles).

But as I said to Marius, there's a massive guitar shop practically over the road from New Street Station and they sell a handful of digital pianos/keyboards (no acoustics) and some sheet music (but nothing in terms of AB exam stuff) but the place is over 80% guitars. The nearest piano warehouse that I know of nearest to Brum is at Belbroughton, near Kidderminster (think it's called Drake House or something) but maybe there are more piano orientated music shops in the Second City (incidentally don't let Katmid know I called Brum the Second City!!)

But the piano IS cool to you and all of us too! But if you were brought up when the piano was a 'cool' instrument, it wouldn't be a graphic designers job you'd be looking for but a servant's or some other 'woman's job' in the absence of equality!!!

[Moonlight]

[dave brum]

You would be their resident piano player!!!

[Moonlight]

It could of been possible! To think if I grew up then I would be a piano playing waitress at Lyons! You see my parants would of had a piano in the house in those days and I would of had lessons as a kid! ...but its just a dream .

Actually my parants did have a piano in the house before I was born, but sold it . I was soo close to becoming a pianist!

[dave brum]

I was in Bauers this week and I asked the assistant where to go in town to get exam stuff after the shop closes. The answer - NOWHERE! I refuse to believe that! There must be SOMEWHERE in the Second City that sells a similar range of exam and music stuff with a heavy emphasis on the piano.

[markymark]

Is Bauers a piano shop too?
Here, music instrument retailers also supply examination music resources from the main examination boards. If they do not stock it in the store, most will order it on request.
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The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth

[dave brum]

Bauer and Hieber WERE a sheet music store with only the one piano so potential customers could try out the printed music on sale. The only piano shop I know of in town now is Fairdeal Music which sells mainly guitars but does have some Clavs and Casio keyboards and pianos in one section of the shop.