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Steve Coombes

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Traditional Music Shops in Prague
« on: September 15, 2017, 09:48:47 AM »

I'm going on a Morris tour of Prague next week :M leaving on Sunday. So I was wondering if it had an equivalent to the Hobgoblin music shops.
Also any other tips gratefully received,
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Re: Traditional Music Shops in Prague
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2017, 10:15:09 AM »

Not as such, Steve, but most of the general music shops keep a stock of traditional instruments because trad music is a much more prominent feature of the Czech psyche than it is of the British.  If it's still there, and interesting shop that specialises in acoustic instruments and sells luthiers supplies is at the Mala Strana end of the Charles Bridge, down the steps and on the left in a courtyard. I can't remember its name, but I used it quite a lot when I was living there a few years ago. There also used to be - I've not been to Prague for 4 years - a second-hand music shop that had a lot of boxes, fiddles and so on in stock, again tucked away at the back of a courtyard, on the left (if you're starting from Staroměstske Naměsti) towards the end of Dlouha Street. No guarantees it's still there!  As a matter of interest I bought my little Hlavaček from a junk shop just behind the Tyn Church in Tynska Ulička - it's marked on the Google map of Prague as "Bric a Brac Antiques"!

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Re: Traditional Music Shops in Prague
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2017, 11:45:54 AM »

I did a quick internet trawl and found guitar, piano, violin and vinyl shops so even at 4 years old you first hand info looks good to me.
I'll report on my return :|glug when I've dried out that is  >:E
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Re: Traditional Music Shops in Prague
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2017, 12:53:47 PM »

Don't rub it in, I would have loved to be with you. Regards to the troops and have a beer for me.

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Re: Traditional Music Shops in Prague
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2017, 02:24:25 PM »

I wouldn't think of it as rubbing it in, more as sincere delight at the prospect of six days of shear hedonism :|glug :||: :M :Ph >:E
Don't worry Malcolm we'll be lamenting all our friends with a beer or two.
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Re: Traditional Music Shops in Prague
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2017, 12:21:17 AM »

Hi Graham
Prague was great and you information gave an extra dimention to the trip the first place you mentioned just off Charles Bridge is now a film special effects museum, but still with instrument depictions on the outside walls. The shop on Dlouha Street is Antonius Music and had a lot of accordions but only one sad melodeon resting on a water pipe it had 4 paddle bases, 2 rows. The Bric a Brac shop is now two shops and had 2 interesting melodeons, A Galotta single voice two row 5000 czk crowns with some nasty clucking noises coming from the base end, I was offered 10% off without any haggling. The other was unbrandded but looked a lot like a Lilliput 2500 czk crowns its condition was so bad i was advised not to picket up.
We did have fun hunting down the shops thanks for the tips,
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Re: Traditional Music Shops in Prague
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2017, 03:25:05 PM »

Glad to be of help, Steve. Sorry you didn't find the box of your dreams!  Interesting that the shop at the end of the Charles Bridge has been absorbed into the film museum, which started as as little premises at the far end of that courtyard. Sad that it's gone, though; it sold all kinds of useful stuff - I've bought tools, tonewoods (I make and restore string instruments too) and all kinds of odds and ends there. Nice to hear Antonius Music is still going.

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Re: Traditional Music Shops in Prague
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2017, 03:55:51 PM »

I think the one GPS meant was the shop in Naprstkova just along the road from the National Theatre.  Lots of old tat in rather poor condition but still worth looking at.  I bought a C clarinet from them, basically nice but in not quite playable condition, and found it was in C sharp when I got it home, also a strohfidel which turned out to have a couple of bars missing.  If you can check things out and know that they really, truly work as they should before you buy, you'll be ok.
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« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2017, 04:40:58 PM »

I think the one GPS meant was the shop in Naprstkova just along the road from the National Theatre.  Lots of old tat in rather poor condition but still worth looking at.  I bought a C clarinet from them, basically nice but in not quite playable condition, and found it was in C sharp when I got it home, also a strohfidel which turned out to have a couple of bars missing.  If you can check things out and know that they really, truly work as they should before you buy, you'll be ok.

I didn't know there was one there.  I have friends who used to live in Boršov, one street over from there, and  I had no idea they had a local S/H music shop.  Steve definitely found the two I was referring to.  Next time I'm in Prague I'll go and see if it's still there..........

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Re: Traditional Music Shops in Prague
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2017, 09:16:58 AM »

Another shop that maybe worth looking out for was just off Bethlehem Square. I went past it at night and didn't get a chance to go back. I could see accordions at the back but the dark corner next to them may have held a melodeon. Something to look out for next time ;)
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Re: Traditional Music Shops in Prague
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2017, 09:52:01 AM »

I was in Prague in July. I wasn't looking for music shops but did find the character in the attached photo in a cafe off the south end of Wenceslas Square.
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Re: Traditional Music Shops in Prague
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2017, 12:07:46 PM »

Another shop that maybe worth looking out for was just off Bethlehem Square. I went past it at night and didn't get a chance to go back. I could see accordions at the back but the dark corner next to them may have held a melodeon. Something to look out for next time ;)

I'd not noticed a S/H music shop round  there, but there used to be some good general antique & bygone shops, including one that had some superb Secessionist light fittings that I always lusted after.......wouldn/t go with our Cyprus mountain village house!

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