After a little over three years, Music Dynamics in Broad St has closed, as the parent company has gone into administration. I didn’t find it quite as useful as it ought to have been. As with its predecessor, Duck Son & Pinker, the staff weren’t thoroughly familiar with their field – as I found out when I asked about a Flanders & Swann songbook and was asked ‘Who is it by?’ And ordering music was very laborious; it took a week to arrive and when I called in to collect it the staff couldn’t find it. For music costing over £10, Blackwell’s will waive postage costs and get it to you in a couple of days.
At the time the shop opened, there was an instrument shop, Sounds International, in Monmouth Place, but Bath couldn’t really support two of them, so it closed a couple of years ago. Now there aren’t any.
[July 2016] Sharps and Flats, which was mostly a gift shop but did stock a limited range of sheet music, has now closed so Bath is now without a music shop of any kind.