As many of you may have heard The Podium will be closing the end of June. Here is the official statement from their website.
To our many friends near and far:
All
good things must come to and end, and so it goes with The Podium. A
veritable landmark in the history of Minnesota music, the Podium has
grown from humble beginnings selling sheet music, pipe tobacco, and
instruments to the world class purveyor of acoustic instruments that it
is today. Recently, the building that The Podium resides in has been
sold to make way for a mixed use retail / residential development.
Despite concerted efforts by the community-at-large to stop the
development, and diligent efforts to find a suitable spot for
relocation, we are now faced with the difficult decision to close our
doors for good.
We'd
like to thank the many, many customers who have supported us over the
past 54 years, and to the builders whose craft made our existence
possible. Without either, there would be no need for a guitar store in
the first place. We are indebted to your patronage and artistry,
respectively.
Between now and the end of June, we will be
offering significant discounts on sheet music, strings, accessories, and
instruments.
Please call us for details. All sales will be final.
In
light of the limited amount of time we have left, we will not be
accepting consignments or trade-ins or offering layaway terms, and
repairs will only be accepted on a case-by-case basis.
Thank your for your patience, your support and your patronage!
-- The Podium
This is a sad sad for all of us. Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available. They have been the main outlet for my instruments as well as wonderful friends. That will continue but I will obviously be changing the method of availability of my guitars. Stay tuned.
On a more positive note the archtop designed by David Roos sold to Chris Olson, a great Twin Cities jazz guitarist and faculty member at McNally Smith music college. I am very excited to have a musician of his calibre playing one of my instruments.
