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

[Jason Smith]

If you read my emails you might think I am retarded or
something I think I'll shut up now

--- Jason Smith <jbone72 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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 true with band
> instruments.  If you use too 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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