Awful music shop D:

[roseli]

I live in a little city, and because of that we only have one music shop.
Can you imagine how much money they are making because of that? ò_Ó""""
The Amazon.com ask for the 60th exercises of Hanon 6$95, for Czerny op. 599 6$99 and for the The notebook of Anna Magdalena 11$97
In this shop of my city, they ask for Hanon 30€, Czerny 22€ and the Notebook 22€
I called to a shop in Lisbon, for the prince of the Czerny's opus, because I just couldn't resist and it was only 9€ the man just star laughing when I told him why I called.
And my piano? I bought my piano, a yamaha p-85 with all the extras, for less then 800€ they asked me for almost 900€ only for the piano!
LOL
there is something wrong over here isn't?

[stevebob]

That's interesting (and, as you say, a bit awful, too).

I think you're lucky to have even one sheet music shop.  They were once common throughout the U.S., but they've become nearly extinct.  We had two in the small Los Angeles suburb where I grew up, and I spent hours browsing there when I was a kid.  When I moved to New York City about 25 years ago, publishers like G. Schirmer and Carl Fischer had retail stores, and there were at least two excellent independent retailers as well.  The last one (in a city of this size!) closed a few years ago. 

I love the ease of buying online (and the price of downloading public-domain music can't be beat), but I miss the experience of perusing scores and the ambience of a store where there may have been pictures of composers on the walls, books about music, CDs, musical instruments and other customers with interests similar to my own.

It's hard to understand how your local store can charge those prices, though.  I wonder how they manage to stay in business; however cozy the environment, price is the bottom line for most shoppers—and most shoppers know they have options for finding the best value.

[roseli]

you just surprised me, because I didn't know there were shops only for music books (all kinds) this store sells everything, guitars, pianos, electrict stuff and some books.
they are the only shop around here and that's why they do this prices, and my town is really little, so the study of an instrument is reserved to the high classes, sons of doctors, professors, etc they are kind of venerated around here (this place is very lame)
that people can buy the books by that price and don't think about it... I don't know how since portugal is almost at the same level then greece... -___-
It is very shocking... : /
that hanon for 30€... that's half of what I pay every month for my piano lessons! I can not find those prices anywhere in my country or the internet