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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

2344.0. "Want to visit a Music Shop..." by CHEFS::BRIGGSR (Four Flat Tyres on a Muddy Road) Fri Oct 11 1991 11:27

    
    I shall be in Nashua next week and expect to have some free time
    Thursday afternoon. I'd like to check out at least one good music store
    in the Nashua area or between Nashua and Boston on the way back to the
    airport. Can anyone suggest somewhere (with directions)? If its
    colocated with somewhere that sells CDs that would be ideal but number
    1 priority is instruments.
    
    Richard
    Reading, UK
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2344.1SALEM::TAYLOR_JAnyone seen my air guitar ?Fri Oct 11 1991 12:443
    Daddy's Junky Music / Rocket records off of the DW highway in 
     South Nashua, near the Tyngsboro Mass border. Im not sure of the
     exits.  PS, Never offer full price on a used item.
2344.2DirectionsFOO::BHAVNANISYS$UNWIND - laid back VMSFri Oct 11 1991 13:1617
	Richard,

	Here are directions to Daddy's Junk Music from Route 3:

	- Rt 3 North to exit 1 in New Hampshire (this is the exit after
	  exit 36 in Mass)
	- R at lights
	- Straight thru 2 lights (pass Purity Supreme supermarket at L)
	- R at next lights onto Daniel Webster Highway
	- Stay in R lane
	- First R into a strip mall (Daddy's is on the extreme R)

	Ask for Tim, Dan or Matt - tell them Ravi sent you and you probably
	won't be quoted an absurd price.  But as -.1 said, you should always
	bargain.  Btw, their telephone # is 603/888-1160.

	/ravi
2344.3DECWIN::KMCDONOUGHSet Kids/NosickFri Oct 11 1991 15:034
    
    And Rockit Records is right next door......
    
    
2344.4Hampshire Music on 101ASTEREO::SCHIRALDIFri Oct 11 1991 15:1610
    Try Hampshire Music, get off Rt 3 at Exit 7W, it's on the left but
    you have to go past it and turn around in a jug handle (take the
    2nd jug handle for best results).  It's a funny colored building
    (looks sort of Mosiac on the outside).
    
    They are having a going out of business sale, 1/2 off plus $10
    for all guitars.  
    
    --CJ--
    
2344.5MEMORY::RATTEYFri Oct 11 1991 15:508
    
    
    	Re -1 ....geeze are they still liquidating ??....they've been having
    	this "Going Out of Buissness" sale for over a year now....and the
    	prices are the same now as they were then..... I guess their not
    	in any rush....I can't figure it out.....       
    
    Ray
2344.6Rathole on Hampshire MusicTUNER::SCHIRALDIFri Oct 11 1991 16:4014
    yeah, the owner told me they have over $1 million in junk to
    get rid of....all kinds of stuff.  They are going out of
    business because the Nashua and Milford school systems started
    selling gear to students directly (of course for much more $$$)
    and told local kids if they buy their gear thru the schools,
    they get free lessons.  Kind of a rotten deal.  I liked that
    place.  It's pretty junky looking when you go in, but the
    guy who runs it knows his stuff and they do have good prices
    and tons of sheet music.  
    
    A place like that is hard to replace...
    --CJ--
    (going down a rathole, sorry)
    
2344.7More of this ratholeSMURF::BENNETTAsk me about Guitar LessonsTue Oct 15 1991 19:0313

	Unless you know what the list prices for things really are,
	Hampshire Music is a risky place. Inspect all merchandise
	carefully because when asked he'll be glad to tell you he's
	dealing factory seconds. His liquidation sale sign is a
	tantrum he's throwing because he's loosing the monopoly
	he used to have in the Nashua Milford band instrument market.
	More than once I've stood by the door as the truck unloaded
	a dozen more guitars to liguidate....

	He's the best place in the world for sifting thru buckets of
	old electric guitar parts or seriously ugly no-name guitars.
2344.8CHEFS::BRIGGSRFour Flat Tyres on a Muddy RoadMon Oct 21 1991 06:4710
    
    Many thanks. I made it to Hampshire Music and also a good place in
    Tewksbury (plus Darrells in Nashua but they don't do geetars.)
    
    Seems to me that stuff retailing at 500 pounds or less is cheaper or as
    cheap here in the UK (such as mikes, effects, Jap Strats, sheet music etc). 
    Stuff over 500 pounds can be got cheaper by far in the US (Les Pauls,
    US Strats, etc). 
    
    Richard