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MUSIC SHOP WILL OPEN THURSDAY IN PALMDALE.


PALMDALE - Guitar Center, the nation's largest musical instrument retailer, will hold a grand opening Thursday for its store in Palmdale.

The grand opening celebration at 7 p.m. Thursday at 1011 W. Ave. P will feature a live band and opportunities to win prizes, including TVs, VCRs and stereos. One customer could win $10,000 in the Pick-a-Pick contest, sponsored by bandsonly.com.

Remo recording artist Paulo Mattioli will join a community drum circle drum circle,
n a spiritual, communal, or therapeutic music experience in which participants join together in a circle with drums, move, dance using various percussion instruments, voices, and other devices.
 from 7 to 11 p.m. during the opening.

Customers will get free ``Palmdale Grand Opening'' T-shirts while the supply lasts.

Begun in 1964 as a music shop in Hollywood, Guitar Center is headquartered in Agoura Hills and now has more than 90 stores around 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. .

Beside electric and acoustic guitars, the store sells keyboards, MIDI MIDI
 in full Musical Instrument Digital Interface

Protocol for transmission of musical data between digital components, such as synthesizers and a computer's sound card. MIDI uses 8-bit asynchronous serial transmission with a data rate of 31.
 peripherals, music software, audio and recording equipment, drums, basses and accessories.

Guitar Center is opening in a former Blockbuster Music store building, which has been vacant for several years. The store is one of the peripheral buildings around the Antelope Valley Mall The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California.

Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0.
, behind Chili's restaurant.

``It's not just nice to fill it, but it's nice to be able to fill it with such a nice tenant for the community,'' said Mark McGaughey, first vice president for CB Richard Ellis CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. NYSE: CBG is a multinational real estate corporation currently based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. On December 20, 2006, the corporation, also known as CBRE, completed acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. in a transaction valued at $2.  in Glendale, the leasing agent.
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Date:Sep 18, 2001
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