Personal Narrative: Eastside Music Supply

He owns a 1954 Gibson CF 100E acoustic electric guitar and plays in a bluegrass band. They practice in the back of the wooden floored store.

On 1/16/17 at 0225 hours my partner, Officer Thebeau #8402, and I were working patrol assigned to unit 3A11. We responded to a radio call of “shots fired” in the area of 814 N. Garfield Ave. The comments of the call stated, a 19 year old female was shot in the hand.

“ ‘ Where did you ever see a guitar’? ( Milkman talking to Guitar) ‘ It was a contest. … I saw it when my mother took me downtown with her. I was just a baby. … I cried for it, they said. And always asked about it.’ ” ( Morrison p.

I witnessed my cousins boyfriend corpse lying on my neighbors lawn. It was a humid summer night around 3:30 when I peeked through my window and saw my devastated cousin sobbing uncontrollably on my decaying porch. Being from East chicago, Indiana has transformed me into the person I am today.

Nestled within an unassuming shopping center lies a place like no other. From the exterior Vape Street fits in perfectly with its neighbors. The tinted windows obscure the activities inside but you can hear the low rumble of rap and a light haze escapes each time the door is opened. In five minute intervals a new person enters the store and disappears into the cloud. The atmosphere is mysterious and I am nervous as I approach the door.

In the second grade, I told my mom I wanted to play guitar. Watching School of Rock may or may not have affected that decision. A couple weeks later, my mom brought home… a violin – Guitar Center had run out of guitars, she claimed. And though it wasn’t exactly what I had asked for, I ended up liking the violin, and came to appreciate classical music. But my other musical tastes stuck with me, and quickly expanded – my iPod soon contained rock, jazz, alternative, heavy metal, hip-hop, rap, country, and everything in between. As I listened to various musical styles, I gradually picked up more instruments – electric guitar, bass, classical guitar, and so forth.

Most employees at Washburn are either musicians who love and play music. Some are not musicians, but they value the craft and design of each guitar. This improves the quality of Washburn instruments because they all have a passion for what they are creating. Every guitar is crafted with a passion only a musician can feel. This passion nurtures their pride into selling top of the line products. The desire to create a quality instrument and the love for music is the motivation. Quoted from the video, Gil Vasques the production manager stated, “Some are motivated by music and music alone, others are motivated by the simplicity of creating the instrument, and some are motivated by coolness factor.” Every employee at Washburn takes their

On Christmas day, a thirteen-year-old boy opens a gift from his mom. With excitement and joy the boy receives his first guitar, an Ibanez electric. The boy plugs the new guitar into a solid state Marshall amplifier and makes noise. Not knowing any chords or how to play, that moment of creating sounds and feedback on his own. He formed a passion and love of the instrument for many years to come. The music of Jimi Hendrix, The Velvet Underground and The Rolling Stones filled his head. He wanted to be like the masters, so he practiced every day and took lessons when he could. With persistence and love for music, the boy learned chords and scales and started to create music of his own. Guitar changed his life and made his hard upbringing better. The struggles, his mom had raising a kid on her own. Working two jobs and being a single mom made her happy knowing her son had a hobby and a love for music. Of course hearing loud guitar playing at 3 am at night can be aggravating at times. The mom knew she had created a brighter and a more artistic life for her son. For that, the boy is forever grateful for his mother and what she

In “Music and Consumer Experience,” writer John T. Lang addresses the connection between the auditory atmosphere and consumer experience, arguing that companies use differing sounds. The author states that corporations use music to influence a consumer's mood and opinions. The beat of the music influences the speed that a customer move. Slow beat and customers linger, fast beat and customers will hurry. Music also serves to drown out unwanted sound and draw in customers. This music is played not to be listened to, but to be heard and influence customers. The music is programmed to result in the desired way. John uses the example that the sound of "babbling brook" will create a calm environment. The company, Muzak (now Mood Media) was a pioneer

The two men who can be given the most credit for the modern guitar’s development can be separated into two categories: inventor and innovator. The inventor was Fullerton, California’s Leo Fender. Fender brought the 19th century’s industrial revolution and Henry Ford’s assembly line into the world of musical instruments. Traditionally a craftsmen’s profession in which individual instruments were crafted for individual musicians, Fender introduced replaceable parts and economics efficiency to the instrument manufacturing industry.

His consumers look for guitars that respond to a subtle touch or a heavy attack, yet keep clarity and definition in their tonal character; mandolins that respond quickly and evenly with power and grace (Woodwark & Wong, 2013, p. 189). These consumers look for the attention to detail that Sawchyn Guitars puts into their instruments. Local customers use his website and word of mouth as their sources of information about his business. Demands are growing for repairs, accessories, consignment of vintage guitars, and custom-ordered handmade instruments. The brand of Sawchyn Guitars should grow as demands increase.

Every bass player will want a guitar that can bring the sauce they need for the music. The catch is they want one that will require little if anything more of them than just playing it. This ideal is reached by pairing quality components and circuitry with a player-friendly design and rock-solid durability.

His voice reverberated off the walls, in the confined, cluttered space, and Michael immediately regretted having not lowered it from it's normal volume. The last thing he desired was to bring attention to himself, however a glance over his shoulder quickly eased that concern. Apart from an odd bob of the head here and there, to see who it was that had broken the silence, the majority of the customers were too immersed in their selection of the variety of goods on sale, to have cared, and when his gaze met those who's curiosity had been aroused, theirs swiftly averted. Michael presumed the boutique to be a place where the clientele mostly kept to themselves, and didn't make waves; possibly in the event that caused their intent for being there to be questioned. Issues with your husband? A Voodoo doll, perhaps?

Did the pianist accept the music store's offer when the acceptance had an additional term (request for piano storage). Under UCC, if the terms in the acceptance are additional, then in the case where not all parties are merchants only the terms of the offer will stand and additional terms are disregarded. In this case the only music store is a merchant and the offer is validly accepted. However, the additional term for storage can be disregarded.

Up close, the shop is surprisingly grand and majestic, unlike the view I had from a distance with its baby-blue and lemon-green pastel exterior reminding me of a newborn’s nursery. Its vivid colours makes it easy to spot along the mundane East Coast Road, but the golden carvings of a wide range of flora and fauna that I now see in fine detail, add to this notion of grandeur. The shades grew bolder as I approach, shifting from the sweet candy-like pastel colour to the splash of persian blue which highlights the ambience of Asian culture around the shop. The numbers 1928 boldly stand out in white stucco above a dark green awning giving a sense of antiquity. Encrusting that curious date are a collection of geometric patterns which match the lemon-green window sills differing only in the rich pink added to accentuate the significance of the numbers.