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Traditional Music Shops in Prague
Steve Coombes:
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,
Steve
Graham Spencer:
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"!
Graham
Steve Coombes:
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
Thanks
Steve
malcolmbebb:
Don't rub it in, I would have loved to be with you. Regards to the troops and have a beer for me.
Malcolm
Steve Coombes:
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.
Steve
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