Hi. My name is Joe. I own Joe's Music. The funniest thing is Shroom , who wrote the really horrible complaint, was in my store this week buying strings at the lowest price around from my store. He couldn't get them from other stores & No other store would help him but we special ordered d'addarioo 6-string Bass strings for him. He also doesn't understand that we teach music theory at my store and to detune any intrument reduces the art to a knack. You could play some cool sounding things with only a few lessons, however, if someone wanted to convey a musical idea to shroom or wanted shroom to play in a particular key or map out a major or minor triad he would be dumbfounded. Standard tuning is so everyone can play together much like standard sized railroad tracks. We at Joe's have accrued a knowledge over 30 years of performing/teaching and sometimes people who do not know music want to tell us how music is supposed to ""be"" when they have not even studied the craft. Also, i do not believe i should be accosted online by someone who really wasn't the type of worker i hire and simply didn't jell with the other employees. I do not hire without consulting my staff and in this person's case it was a unanimous ""DO NOT HIRE"".Obviously, shroom has an ax to grind and my customers would not appreciate that when they shopped at my store. Also, in resonse to bothe shroom aand lake effect snow: sometimes people come into my store and want us to agree with their wrong or incorrect idea. Obviously, we want to help the customer but can only help if they are open to correct ideas. Remember we have only 500 sqre feet of store and 500 for teaching. We cannot stock every item but we stock things that work and are used regularly......I will ask shroom about his post the next time he is shopping in my store. retail is funny. LOL
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