Nice post Taike
And offcourse i know Maasmechelen, i lived a few years in Opgrimbie, if that isnt close...
In my over 40 years of memories there never has been a musicstore on the market place, tough there was a piano salesman on the other big square, ut Vriethof...
For a good music store these days, i need to go to Heerlen, or even better, to Germany as that is what started this thread in the first place..
The best part of Maastricht these days is music, in dialect... We have three operette and one opera communities, and even our ver own popmusic culture in dialect.... maastricht breathes music withe every step we take...
But then in Limburg everything evolves mostly around de " Mestreechter Carnaval" just look at this video and see how people react to their own local singers, its all in dialect.
http://youtu.be/T2j16I9ykRw I think you will love it, after being abroad for over 30 years.