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From: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,rec.music.makers,misc.consumers,comp.music
Subject: Re: Bad Vibes from Schroders Keyboard City
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Date: 15 Mar 90 08:50:43 GMT
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In article <34938@cci632.UUCP> wac@ccird7.UUCP (William Christiano) writes:
>Oh well !  I want to open my own store some day. Lets see if
>I remember my own words!

Hehe.  Funny you should say that.  When I was in high school, myself
and one other person started a "pseudo-music store" which we referred
to as Gemini Music (named after our high school band).  We got the
legal paperwork together (loopholes ;'), picked up a couple of easy
dealerships, and sold to friends and locals (not very seriously,
though - it was just for fun and for our own benefit).

A few years later I was playing in a band fulltime, and Bruce (the
band's bassist) and I were complaining about how no store would give
us a straightforward deal on some new equipment we had been trying to
pick up.  Bruce said "someday we should start our own store, by and
for musicians, that gives it's best prices fairly and up front".  I
thought about Gemini Music then, and said "Bruce, have I got a deal
for you!"  ;')

To make a long story short, we got some loans and turned Gemini Music
into a serious music store in Bruce's garage.  Within two years the
business had grown to the point where it knocked every other music
store in town out of business, and where it had to be moved into a
storefront of it's own.  Around that time I cashed in my co-ownership
to go wandering around the country playing in road bands, but Bruce
stayed with it, and now, ten years later, Gemini Music is one of the
most successful music stores in southern Minnesota.

This is not an advertisement (that's why I haven't bothered to mention
what city this store is in - if you want to know, write me email).
Rather, it is intended as confirmation that a store can deal honestly
with it's customers (Bruce had continued to follow that dictum to this
day, to his credit) and still succeed (most impressively in this case).
Maybe this will give others out there the courage to try the same thing
someday (in which case we'd all be better off).

-- 
  David Sandberg, dts@quad.sialis.mn.org or ..uunet!rosevax!sialis!quad!dts
      "Hurry up and wait."    ....    "Dammit, I can't wait any faster!"