Nigel,
I was in the Guitar Center today,Sunday, in Oxnard. I had to drive out to Costco to pick up a table a chairs. Oxnard is a 28 mile drive from Reseda, and I've never been in any Guitar Center except for checking out the Hollywood store some years ago. I walked through the whole store, stopped and played with a Casio keyboard (there wasn't a high end arranger keyboard in the store) and not one single salesperson ever came up to me and said hello or asked if I wanted anything. It wasn't crowded in the store and all the help were busy talking to each other. When I came out of the store I was amazed at how I was in the store for over an hour and my experience was exactly like the MI spy report stated his experience was at the two mega stores in my area of LA. Dan O, you must be one in a million at Guitar Center stores! Could you imagine if you and I sold keyboards in the same store in perhaps Colorado Springs, Co., to make all the Colorado members of this forum happy to have a great music store to buy arranger keyboards in? Man, we would sell a load of SD1's between you and me!
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California