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NSW · 06-26-2010, 10:14 AM

"No jamming" signs? Seems like that would be counter-productive to actually selling things, but I'm no expert.

I don't play any instruments, but I do frequent music shops quite a bit with a friend of mine who does. As a person just looking around and not actually sitting and playing anything, it seems like the only times I've ever seen the staff get uppity is when there is some kid in there who obviously doesn't know how to play a thing, just messing around and generally being disrespectful of the equipment. But never known them to be judgmental round these parts, in fact, alot of times you can ask them what might seem to be a stupid question and they will stand with you for half an hour patiently explaining things. Like ElephantSack mentioned, I think most of them are just psyched when people are into making music (or at least curious about it) and hope that they can help spur that forward. And of course, it's to their advantage to at least act that way if they want to make a sale.

06-26-2010, 10:14 AM	#4 (permalink)
NSW Bigger and Better Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas girl living in the UK Posts: 2,596	"No jamming" signs? Seems like that would be counter-productive to actually selling things, but I'm no expert. I don't play any instruments, but I do frequent music shops quite a bit with a friend of mine who does. As a person just looking around and not actually sitting and playing anything, it seems like the only times I've ever seen the staff get uppity is when there is some kid in there who obviously doesn't know how to play a thing, just messing around and generally being disrespectful of the equipment. But never known them to be judgmental round these parts, in fact, alot of times you can ask them what might seem to be a stupid question and they will stand with you for half an hour patiently explaining things. Like ElephantSack mentioned, I think most of them are just psyched when people are into making music (or at least curious about it) and hope that they can help spur that forward. And of course, it's to their advantage to at least act that way if they want to make a sale. __________________ Hi.