January 2002
Trumpet Store Opens With a Blast at PiCK Music
Saturday, January 26, was opening day for the new in-house 
trumpet
store at PiCK Music Studios in Manchester. Several of the area's top
professional players and quite a few students spent the afternoon playing an
amazing array of trumpets, cornets and flugelhorns, a herald trumpet, copper
belled trumpets, piccolo trumpets, and one in three keys with interchangeable
bells.
The store is specializing in intermediate and advanced level instruments.
Store hours are limited due to studio teaching, but the PiCK trumpet store
promises to be unmatched in quality, selection and price for the student and
professional players of Central PA. " We feel 
that
good players should have good horns", says owner PC King. "The
unbelievable thing is that our price for a mid-line silver trumpet is less than
most brass start up instruments and it plays great. The instruments are made by
Kanstul Musical Instruments in Anaheim, California. The quality and playability
of these horns are very impressive. The response from everyone who played them
is overwhelmingly positive."
The new pro shop is the
only store of its kind in this area. This is good news to a lot of people,
considering the popularity of the trumpet in the school programs. The local
music stores are concentrating their sales efforts on the school rental
programs. By the time the parents have finished paying for these horns, the
average students will have outgrown their entry level instruments. In many cases
parents are under the impression that they can’t afford to upgrade, or are
concerned that the student may not stay with it long enough to warrant the
additional investment. Good equipment will. often motivate the students to take
a more serious approach to music. A quality instrument sounds better, responds
more reliably, and can give a student confidence. With no local source for
upgrading instruments, people are either driving out of town or are looking on
the Internet for good deals. Instrument repair technician, Bob Warfield has seen
an alarming increase in calls from unsuspecting consumers who bought brand new
instruments on E-bay with wobbly keys and valves that won’t work. Buying
instruments sight unseen is not usually a good idea. With the PiCK Trumpet
Store, that is no longer necessary. Store hours are (most) Saturdays from 12 PM-3 PM or
by Appointment. PiCK
Music is located behind the Manchester RiteAid on N. George St., 4 miles north
of Rt.30.
