It is important for a musical store to provide their clients with the best quality and durability. Large music stores have lots of products you can choose from, especially if you have not yet decided on the type of instrument you would like to learn how to play.
There are around 4,500 musical instrument stores in the US. Some of the store names include Guitar Center, Sweetwater Sound, and Sam Ash Music among others. Many musical instrument establishments are full-line stores that offer pianos, guitars, sound equipments, instrument accessories, school music products as well as parts of any instrument. Some large music instrument stores are independent. This means that they usually sell most of their so-called “indie” labels. In addition to this, independent musical stores do not promote any major record labels or brands.
Listed below are the top 7 largest musical instrument store in the United States of America:
Mally’s Traditional Music Instrument Store: This music instrument store is located at # 3 East Moorside Cleckheaton, USA. It sells different kinds of musical instruments ranging from the smallest up to the biggest variety.
To give you a detailed list of some of the items in this store, they have the following:
- bass guitars
- acoustic guitars
- electric guitars
- drums set
- accessories
- pianos
- music book
- and anything that is connected to music
This musical store has many branches in and outside of the US. It also offers drum lessons as well as violin lessons. It also has its own production outlet.
American Musical Store: This store is noted as the store with the most excellent musical equipments. It is situated at #65 Greenwood Avenue Minland Park, USA. It offers huge choices of in-stock instruments such as keyboards, drums, guitars, recording equipments, electric guitars, bass guitars, effects, accessories, parts and many more. It even has payment terms and it accepts installment charges that can be settled between 3 up to 5 months. Its customers or buyers can order via phone, mail or fax.
SIC 5736 Musical Instrument Store: This musical store has a total of 7,285 stores. Aside from this, it is eventually listed as one of the largest musical stores in the US. The exact location of this store is at # 1324 Boulevard Avenue California, USA. The store sells pianos, drums, percussion instruments, string instruments, keyboards, organs, electric guitars as well as brass instruments. This musical store insists that buyers opt for electric musical instruments. Thus, this store also has branches in Connecticut, Florida, Nevada, New York, Indiana and Ohio.
Allegro-Music Store: This independent music store is located in North America. It has a store catalog. Some of their catalogs include instruments such as classical, pop, jazz and world. It also sells other products such as electric guitars, drums, cleaning instruments and many more. Thus, customers and buyers can order via email or fax, online, phone (toll free). Their store is open for 24 hours everyday.
Metronome Music Store: This independent music store that’s owned by a musician/businessman sells amps, basses, drums, guitars, flute, recoding paraphernalia as well as PA equipment. This music store offers a huge line of musical instruments and accessories. They can also provide rentals for any type of musical instrument.
The Metronome Music Store is also well equipped with a spy cam, alarm and security guards. It also offers lessons for bass, piano, banjo, keyboards, trumpet, flute, alto sax, guitars as well as drums.
KTJ Musical Instrumental Store: This music store sells used as well as new music equipments and supplies for a very low price. It sells acoustic and electric guitars, cymbals, drums, basses, amps, pianos, keyboards, processors and effects pedals. This is along speakers, and studio equipment. It is located in Arizona, USA. It also offers professional lessons for those who want to study guitars, pedals and flutes. This music store has support facilities for school band supplies and fund raising supplies. It also serves their buyers or customers 24 hours. Clients can order via email or fax, either by phone or online.
Marshall Music Instrumental Store: This music store has seven braches located at Allen Park, Troy, Grand Rapids, Traverse, Kalamazoo and West Bloomfield. It has professional music instrument technicians that handle the repair of any string, percussion, woodwind, electronic equipment, brass, and related instruments. It even has a “School Service Department” that can accommodate a full range of musical needs. In addition, it also has an organ and piano department, which usually houses classrooms for keyboard and piano lessons, including auditoriums that house an amp and guitar department. It also offers complete guitar lessons.
With each new school year, parents begin a yearly ritual by going on a musical instruments shopping spree with their children. These shopping sprees may last one day, or they may go on for weeks on end with no end in sight. Parents are usually caught unaware by the notice they get about their child’s school curriculum change. The child may not be very happy about being in the school band, but in retrospect, thinks it’s a better alternative than taking a gym class.
On a musical instruments shopping spree, mother’s grab their children and head off to every music store in town, and check every newspaper ad looking for a musical instrument their child could use during the school year that they would be well-suited for. The musical instrument would not have to be brand new either. So, consulting the list of suitable instruments that the school gave her to use as a guide, she continues on with her musical instruments shopping spree.
The musical instruments shopping spree took her clear across town in the middle of rush hour traffic. By the time she entered a music store recommended to her by a friend, she was frazzled. The selection of instruments that matched her list were quite expensive, but there were several that qualified for a student rental program. She made a note of that offering, and continued to another location to check prices.
The next stop on her musical instruments shopping spree, landed her in a resale shop that had two instruments in the front window. Weathered by the sun, the cases looked a bit dry, but the price on the instrument, a flute, was within her price range. They did not have anything that her daughter wanted to play. She cleared the purchase with her son, who did not have a problem with playing the flute in the school band. His viewpoint was that he would be able to at least sit down during every concert. She made the purchase and scratched one shopping item off her list.
She asked her daughter what instrument she wanted to play. Her daughter wanted to play a guitar, or maybe some drums. Her mother suggested that she try a clarinet, and the girl balked at that idea entirely. Her mother stressed that she could try the piano but that would require lessons. Lessons would take away from her social life and that idea was not appealing in the least. The musical instruments shopping spree proceeded to the nearest pawn shop.
There was a set of electronic drums in the middle aisle that showed promise. The price of this set of drums was a bit steep, and the women decided she would try and get them to lower the price. She noticed that there was a cleaning set for a flute in the display case, which included a carry case for a flute. That price was quite reasonable, and when she offered to buy both items, the salesman promptly offered her a $25.00 discount on the drum set. Feeling that she had made a wise purchase the mother helped her daughter carry her drum set to the car.
8eva – an octave higher
A tempo – resume the normal speed after a diversion
Accelerando (accel.) – gradually becoming faster
Adagio – slowly, leisurely
Ad libitum – at pleasure, quite freely
Agitato – with agitation
Allargando – broadening out, often with an increase of tone
Allegretto – moderately fast; slightly slower than allegro
Allegro – lively and reasonably fast
Andante – at an easy walking pace
Andantino – a little slower (or a little faster than Andante)
Animato – with animation
Arco – (for string players) with the bow
Attacca – go on at once
Ben marcato – well marked
Brilliante – sparkling, brilliant
Brio – vigour
Calando – getting softer and slower
Cantabile – in a singing style
Capo – the beginning
Con anima – with feeling
Con brio – with spirit
Con forza – with forza
Con grazia – with grace
Con moto – with movement
Con sordini – with the mutes
Crescendo (cresc.) – gradually becoming louder
Da Capo (D.C) – from the beginning
Dal capo al fine or D.C. al fine written under the last bar of apiece of section – the music is to be repeated right from the beginning until it reaches the word ‘fine (the end).
Dal Segno – from the sign ; the music is to be repeated from where the sign occurs earlier in the piece, then carrying on to the end.
Decrescendo (decresc.) – gradually becoming softer
Diminuendo (dim.) – gradually becoming softer
Dolce – soft and sweet
Forte (f) – loud
Forte-piano (fp) – loud then immediately soft
Fortissimo (ff) – very loud
Forzando (fz or sfz) – with a strong accent
Giocoso – gay, merry
Grave – very slowly
Grazioso – gracefully
Largo – slowly and stately, broad
Larghetto – slower than Largo
Legato – smoothly
Leggiero – lightly
Lento – slowly
Loco – at the normal pitch (generally after playing an octave higher)
Maestoso – majestically
Main droite (M.D.) – right hand
Main gauche (M.G) – left hand
Marcato – marked, accented
Meno mosso – slower, less movement
Mezzo forte (mf) – moderately loud
Mezzo piano (mp) – moderately soft
Mezzo staccato – moderately short and detached; shown by dots covered with a slur
Misterioso – mysteriously
Moderato –at a moderate speed
Molto – very, much
Morendo – dying away
M.M – Maelzel’s metronome
Opus – a work or group of works
Ossia – or (an alternative version)
Ped. – depress the sustaining pedal of the pianoforte
Perdendosi – dying away
Pesante – heavily
Piacevole – pleasing
Piano (p) – soft
Pianissimo (pp) – very soft
Piu mosso – quicker
Pizzicato (pizz.) – plucked (in string music)
Poco – a little
Poco a poco – little by little (gradually)
Presto – very fast
Prestissimo – extremely fast, or as fast as possible
Rallentando (rall.) – gradually becoming slower
Risoluto – with resolution, boldly
Ritardando (retard.) – gradually becoming slower
Ritenuto (riten. or rit.) – immediately slower or hold back
Ritmico – rhythmically
Scherzando – playfully
Sempre – always
Senza – without
Sforzando (sf) – a strong (sudden) accent
Simile – in a similar manner
Sostenuto – sustained
Staccato – detached, short; note sustained for half the written length (shown by a dot above or below each note)
Stringendo – gradually faster
Subito – suddenly
Tempo – the speed of the music
Tenuto (ten.) – hold
Tranquillo –quietly, calmly
Tre corde – release the left, soft pedal of the pianoforte (with three strings)
Troppo – too much
Une corda – depress the left, soft pedal of the pianoforte (with one string)
Vivace – lively
Vivo – lively
Signs:
– accent; give prominence, play with force
[Respectively, strong accent marcato, normal accent, and tenuto]
– the music or passage between the dots is to be played again
(fermata) – musical symbol placed over a note or rest to be extended beyond its normal duration
– tie or bind, indicating that the note being played or sung sustained, unbroken, through the total time value of the notes
– slur; a group of notes are played under a single bow stroke (string), or without retonguing (wind), or in one breath (singing), so that the notes move smoothly with no perceptible break
– metronome mark, indicating the speed at which a piece is to be played; 60 crotchets to the minute
– up-bow (bowed instrument – bow is pushed across the string); up-stroke (guitar – the string is plucked with the hand moving upwards)
– down-bow (bowed instrument – bow is pulled across the string); down-stroke (guitar – the string is plucked with the hand moving downwards)
- a less strong accent placed above or below the note meaning that it is to be stressed but not as strongly as when marked as > or
written by Janet Yun from www.shinemusic.com.au teachers of piano, saxophone, violin, singing, drums, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, flute and clarinet