[Trombone-l] End of the Music world is coming

[Jason Smith]

One time a was talking with a prospective band parent
and I came up with this analogy.

You can plant a acorn in a small pot.  Eventually with
soil, water, and care that acorn will grow and outgrow
that pot and need a bigger pot and eventually need to
be placed in ground.  The same is try with band
instruments.  If you use to small a pot and don't
transplant soon enough the tree wont flourish and it
will die.

I use that quite often now seems to work.

Jason

--- Jeff Albert <jeffalbert.smb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, the fact that their service was mediocre at
> best and their prices were
> high didn't help either. They stocked very little
> that fit my needs, so I
> had no reason not to use internet/mail order places.
>  I tend to suggest the
> places that I do business to my students... Maybe
> that was just my
> experience with the Brook Mays that were near me
> here in Louisiana.  Anyway,
> I do't see it as that big a loss to me as a
> consumer.  If I worked there, I
> am sure I would see it differently.
> 
> I see the threat to traditional music stores more
> from their own bad
> business practices than from Wal-Mart.  If the
> stores treated the teachers
> and pros right, a large portion of their students
> would shop at those
> stores.  When my step son started playing trumpet a
> couple of years ago, the
> band director passed out a list of acceptable brand
> instruments.  It was a
> long list, probably longer than I would have made
> it.  The point was that
> she couldn't tell people where to shop, but she
> could say "these are
> respectable brands, and if you buy something else,
> you are doing your
> student a disservice."  Well, only real music stores
> sell those brands.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On 7/21/06, Charles De Paolo <chuck at hickeys.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Did you read the article?  Their demise is not
> related to the jury
> > settlement. The lawsuit was just a thorn in their
> side. Their insurance
> > carrier covered most of that, and the millions
> they had to pay, while
> > annoying, didn't capsize the ship.  What killed
> them was WalMart, Target,
> > Best Buy et al.  And by extension, clueless
> consumers.
> >
> > This has been predicted for years.  Not
> necessarily that it would be
> > Brook-Mays who bit the dust, but that traditional
> rental based retailers
> > were going to start feeling a serious squeeze from
> cheap offshore
> > instruments, big box retailers entering the
> market, and the continuing
> > demise of the informed consumer.
> >
> > --Chuck
> >
> >   I don't know if anybody else is aware of this
> story or
> >   if anybody really cares.  Their demise can be
> >   attributed to the earlier jury settlement.  Word
> of
> >   caution, be cautious about what you say about
> >   instruments brands and quality it could come
> back and
> >   bite you big brother is watching.
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