At 12:44 PM 9/8/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> Has anyone on here ever bought an instrument from a music store,
>then after a couple of years you feel like you've outgrown it's sound, so
>you go back to the same place and try to use the first instrument you
>got from them in a partial trade up for a better instrument?
> I've bought two violins from this one particular store and the
>last time I was there, they were acting like they didn't want to consider
>working a deal out with me, regardless of the terms. Needless to say, that
>is the last time I am ever going there.
> Has anyone else run into this, or other luthier horror stories?
>
>
>
>Le Meas,
>
>Toby
There was one time only a couple of months after I'd started
playing that I went to a small music store one town away from us. I
was looking for a set of steel strings and told the shop owner that..
and he then loftily "informed" me that *all* violin strings were
steel (he had lots of Super Sensitives in stock!)
I was certainly a beginner at the time, but I wasn't *that*
green. I never went back there. I don't think he was a luthier though -
at least I hope not. :-)
Wendy
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