Music stores adapt and add instruments of Latin America
Tagged: book, DVD, latin america, los tigres del norte, Spanish-language“Requintos, bajo quintos and bajo sextos fill the jampacked Guitar Stringer shop in this growing working-class city.
Accordions painted the red, white and green of the Mexican flag occupy a display case, and songbooks for Los Tigres del Norte share shelf space with Fleetwood Mac method books at this music shop.
Once catering to Anglo industrial plant workers, Guitar Stringer owner Robert Stringer estimates that 70 percent of his customers today are Hispanic musicians. In response, the store carries Spanish-language DVDs, guitar straps decorated with the Mexican flag and a line of accordions, an instrument popular in Hispanic bands….”
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Posted on: February 3rd, 2006Curation from Tomás
Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, Business, Cultura
