{"id":3982,"date":"2016-02-19T23:29:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T23:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2017-01-28T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T23:56:00","slug":"bath-loses-a-music-shop-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2016\/02\/19\/bath-loses-a-music-shop-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bath loses a music shop – again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>, 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 \u00a310, Blackwell’s will waive postage costs and get it to you in a couple of days.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

[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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4522,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}