Instrument repairman isn't blowing his horn.MANNY Manny may refer to: In nobility:
"I am a Russian Jew. I was living in Israel and I had a girlfriend who was visiting. In 1975 when I came to the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. her father offered me a job. He gave me a saxophone saxophone, musical instrument invented in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax. Although it uses the single reed of the clarinet family, it has a conical tube and is made of metal. and told me to take it apart and put it back together, and he left. It took me a while. He showed me a few things and six months later I was working as an apprentice in a music store in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . "In 1978 I moved to L.A. I started at a store that's out of business now. Then I went to work in Stein Music. I wanted to go on my own but Maury, the owner, said, 'Why don't you stay here?' It was a repair store. In 1987, Maury passed away. I left and started my own store. "There's only one location and one other employee. We repair and sell band instruments. I don't sell guitars or strings or anything like that. Just band instruments like saxophones, flutes, clarinets, trumpets and French horns French horn, brass wind musical instrument. Fundamentally a metal tube of narrow conical bore, it is curved into circles because of its great length. The horn ends in a wide flare. It is a development (c.1650) of the small hunting horn. . (Also) there's new and used music, instrumental books, and all the accessories like mouthpieces. "We mostly specialize in vintage stuff. Most of the professionals know what they want but there are some beginners--kids and morns and dads. "I have a very established clientele, some of them are recording artists. USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. and all the schools around here that have a music program know the store by word of mouth. It's a very narrow specialized business so anybody involved with a (brass) instrument knows me in town, and in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . "Maybe I should look forward to big business but I don't like that. I try to keep it like a hobby so there's no pressure. There's no bills, all that's taken care of and it just flows. I could sell a couple more high-ticket instruments, though. "Location is very important. We are near 14 guitar stores and we're the only band store in the vicinity. It's in a music village. It helps everybody because they can come to one location and buy what they need to buy. "Saxophones can go for around $500 to $6,000. Used trumpets, clarinets and flutes can go from $200 and up. Instruments sales have been kind of slow this year. It's actually been declining. Not many people play these instruments anymore but we do a lot of repairs." |
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