We've had this discussion many times over the years. As a 59 year old store owner I have a different opinion then I'm reading here today.
So many of the stores in the USA are Guitar Center and Sam Ash locations and they are staffed with mostly young musicians who have very weak selling capabililties and don't know how to demonstrate well. They tend to just push a demo button and that's it. At least this is what I see when I go into those type of stores throughout the Los Angeles area. I think that most music stores in other countries probably have better sales people who can properly show the strengths of arrangers.
I also think that there are more former accordian players outside the USA then we have here and the natural transition is to an arranger with chords and bass on the left hand and melody on the right.


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George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California
818-881-5566
www.kayesmusicscene.com