Posted on 03/08/2015 5:20:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
If you think it’s a loss now, just wait until the machines die.
Cue howling and wailing of dinosaurs thrashing in the La Brea Tarpits.
1) BooHoo
2) Ha!
3) Next...
“Musicians are underpaid,”
This is sadly, still true, unless you’re in a city’s symphony orchestra. The guys who gig night in and night out in clubs are woefully underpaid, and most do it for their love of music and the joy of performing.
Gee a highly competitive market and she pay five times the minimum wage and won’t modernize.
For years the Sears refused to put 1-800 numbers in their catalogs for customers to order. Senior management could not understand why catalog sales were falling (hint competitors had toll-free numbers in their catalogs).
Why would a broke artist pay $36.95 for a book of Debussy's piano preludes from Frank's if it goes for $12.52 on Amazon? And why pay at all? Copies of the most popular classical works can be found for free on file sharing websites like the International Music Score Library Project.
Why indeed. Musicians are not stupid and they make rational decisions, including buying their sheet music online. Should government intervene to keep Frank's in business. That's certainly what is happening with other business in the face of new competition, so why not with sheet music?
Anyone can go to Saville Row and buy a very nice bespoke suit for $2000 - $3000, made the way that they used to make all suits: by hand. Most go to Men's Wearhouse and buy a suit that serves their purpose at a fraction of the price. Men aren't as well dressed, but that doesn't seem to matter much.
It’s a shame. I’m a musician and download my sheet music, now, if I have a special gig. I do miss the days of perusing the bins, tho.
I still do at the local music stores, but the store owner in the story didn’t want to adapt. It doesn’t matter what industry you are in, if you don’t adapt, you are going to close.
Online music sheet stores are quick and options like changing the key at purchase are very useful.
You’re either on the train or you’re on the tracks.
You’re either on the train or you’re on the tracks.
Yep.
You can compete on price or you can compete on service. It appears that she chose to do neither.
the rents kill all sorts of very valuable resources particulary in retail
the last mom and pop Camera Store In Marin County CA no longer carries the brands it did for decades...and basically sells accessories printing material...and repair service which one cant get that well on the Internet.
So where is one supposed to get sheet music?
“Musicians are underpaid,”
Some are, but then there are the six-figure orchestra and chorus members at the Metropolitan Opera.
Now how are the Marx Brothers supposed to insert “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” in the middle of the overture?
This is sadly, still true, unless you’re in a city’s symphony orchestra. The guys who gig night in and night out in clubs are woefully underpaid, and most do it for their love of music and the joy of performing.
True of the vast majority of artists in general.
Commercial pilots don't make too much either, unless they are very senior.
Supply and demand. A heck of a lot of people want to do art and fly airplanes.
“Some are, but then there are the six-figure orchestra and chorus members “at the Metropolitan Opera.”
That’s exactly what I said.
I used to gig in the best Country band in Cleveland. . 5 nights a week, from 8pm until 2am. I was paid $250 a week.
In other business news, Johnson’s Fine Buggy Whips announced today that it was merging with Amalgamated Spats and Button Shoes to form what is arguably the world’s most obsolete company.
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