Built around playing, not browsing
The shop opened in the back half of a hardware store that closed, which is why the floor is still poured concrete and the walls are still the original brick - it was cheap to rent and impossible to make look sterile, so we stopped trying.
Every instrument on the wall is strung, tuned, and reachable. Nothing is locked in a case behind the counter, because an instrument you cannot pick up is an instrument we cannot sell honestly.
Three of us teach lessons, two of us work the repair bench, and all five of us are on the floor most Saturdays - there is no back office here that is not also a workbench.
