Oh... I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet here in HHW, but...
Patelson Music House in NYC will be closing their doors on April 18. They are currently running a "25%-Off Spring Inventory Sale", and I'm wondering if any other discounts will be introduced over the next week and a half.
I was in there recently and it was so bare, I asked if they were going out of business. They assured me they were not. Too bad. I loved that store, and the Patelsons were lovely folk.
However, even back then, I found the quality and knowledge of some of the staff quite appalling at times.
Can you top the time I walked into a Portland sheet music emporium and asked a clerk, "Do you have 'A Simple Song" from Bernstein's Mass?" "We might--what's the name of it?," asked the clueless clerk. (Think about it for a mo').
Yes. Or at least tie that one:
Customer: I'm looking for a copy of the piano version "Flight of the Bumble Bee" by Rimsky-Korsakov.
Clerk: OK. Hold on, let me check in the back.
(time passes)
Clerk: I'm sorry, I don't see anything on the shelves by that composer.
Customer: Really? I know I bought a copy of that here before.
Clerk: Well, maybe Korsakov is spelled with a "C"...
-That's when I spoke up...
