I’m heading to Zephyrhills soon, and would like to check out some of the local music stores that carry ITM intruments. What are some stores to check out?
Greetings from Davenport Florida.
Here’s a list of places. Browse to your heart’s content.
This one looks promising:
Crown Wholesale Guns
813-788-2520
5355 Gall Blvd
Zephyrhills FL 33542
Heading Match: Musical Instruments-Sales & Rental
I don’t know about Zephyrhills, but being from Maine you might think to make a side trip to “World New Age” or whatever it is, in South Pasadena while you’re enjoying St. Pete Beach.
When you do that, I recommend you park 2 blocks south at Ted Peter’s Smoked Mullet, enjoy the best classic-Florida meal on the Suncoast, and forget about the music store.
They have mostly crystals and alleged Tibetan bowls, massage stones and oils, and various other holistic accessories, with a back room crammed with new-age CDs and imitation-Pakistani drums, “Celtic” harps, and various other bits of ghastly workmanship, all covered in tenacious filth and soaking in an atmosphere thick with the stench of hamsters.
I went there once, recently, when a Chiffer wanted to see the flute they had advertised on ebay. It was a Paki horror that looked to have been carved out of plywood and stained with shoe polish. They wouldn’t let me try it due to “germs.” I wasn’t sure if that was to protect them or me.
My hairdresser confesses to shopping there when he needs a crystal or something as a gift. “I always take lots of antihistamine and put the thing in the trunk. When I get it home, I sanitize it.”
You’ve been warned.
C.Crown Wholesale Guns
xxx-yyy-zzzz
5355 Gall Blvd
Zephyrhills FL 33542
Heading Match: Musical Instruments-Sales & Rental
translation: Pawn & Gun shop.
there are scads of them just north of me; perhaps not so coincidentally they litter the road up to the nearby Seminole casinos.
if, God forbid, my house gets broken into and my instruments get stolen, those’ll be the first places i go looking.
OMG.
My eyes are tearing up from laughter. Brilliant. Lovely.
hi, im from tampa, and i dont know of any good irish music stores around. i usually go to NC for that or on the internet.
Also, jewelry. 
It seems likely that they sell hamster-scented white candles. Lambchop–I suggest you check that out. I think Nano would like one. 
Do we know his address?
I’d really prefer beige hamster-candles, thanks, but there’s a bigger problem: I’m sure my cat would keep sniffing at them and burn her nose. Can’t have that. So, I’ll keep my address to myself unless you’d like to send cash instead.
Perhaps some potpourri? With or without cedar?
No, thanx. I’m a Febreeze sort of guy, and then only when I think I really, really need it. Nobody’s complained so far.
Oh, I’d forgotten about those socks . . .
Little does he realize his Febreeze box is infested with mice. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! 
djm
Not a bit of it. When I moved to the new digs, it was soon apparent that, unlike the previous apartment, I was now utterly mouseless. Which is remarkable considering the age of the building (we’re talking the beginnings of the Arts-and-Crafts movement). Mubu, a crack mouser, was way frustrated, I can tell you. But she’s sublimated her hunting urges by killing tennis balls and throw rugs, now.
Can’t you just get her some white mice at the pet store?
Good lord, no.
I’m poor.
Plus I’d grow attached to the mice on the way home from the pet store and name them and put them in my pockets and want to keep them safe.
And anyway, white mice would take away some of the hunt’s challenge as I don’t have a white carpet.
Yes, I have heard of this syndrome, where some people secrete a natural glue-like substance from their skin.
djm