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Here is a link to Retailer mag..the wholesale magazine for dealers...It is a youtube addition...I think you will find it interesting, and you get a jump start preview of music product news..

Another classic music store bites the dust so sad...I loved Manny's they had everything stores today don't compare been shopping there since I was 14yrs old ro so..we'd take the train to NYC and buy things with the money we saved in a jar...
48th street music scene ain't the same anymore.Internet sales have ruined so many businesses.

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One of the first places I went to in America when I first got here nearly thirty years ago was Manny's (and Giardinelli's). First day in the US, first day in NYC. Went there before I'd even gone up the Empire State Building and the Twin Towers (or the Carnegie Deli!)

The internet has brought many good things into our lives as musicians - social networking, promotion tools, eBay, access to all kinds of resources... There HAS been some terrible collateral damage, though, as well.

Many's closed long ago, first SamAsh took over it
but they are oficially closed for a while.
Diki, where did you come from?

UK

Ahhh, an Englishman in NY
Is'nt that a song by Sting?

GJ

Sorry, could not resist.

Actually, while I lived there (on 52nd St., no less - for all you Billy Joel fans ), Godley and Creme (founding fathers of 10CC) had a hit with a song of the same title, eight years before Sting's version (I had left for the South by then).

Worth a listen (I am quite a fan of theirs)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CYmnqtyOVQ

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A lot of music stores especially family owned went out of business, my favorite music store in the Tri-state area was RONDO MUSIC in Union NJ which no longer exists but I think they moved to New Hampshire and only deal with mailorder I was in there at least twice a week to check out the latest in used and new gear.

I loved Rondo Music. They had most of all the highend arrangers on the floor, great pa systems, etc & great prices. It's too bad they whrn out of business. They were also a big ketron dealers also.

Ahhhhhhh yes I used to come home from work in NYC yrs ago on Rt 22 and stop into RONDO'S and be able to sit and play all the keyboards with out being bothered, chat with my friends who worked there also it was a Super Music store...sad to see it's gone also. Most store now don't carry much anymore and not worth the visit for the pro KB player.