How to upset music shop staff.........

[TBay]

As a complete beginner less than a month in I have been learning Baker St. It reminded me of trip to PMT in Birmingham a couple of years ago. The rhythm guitarist in one of the bands I play in cared me to ask to try a bass and then play seven nation army. Just for fun I agreed and even managed to ask the salesman with a straight face if he had ever heard it before, his reply was ‘once or twice’. I imagine Baker St Is one of those tunes that every saxophone salesperson must be utterly sick of. So it got me wondering what tunes shouldn’t you play in a music shop if you don’t want to upset the sales people.
So.......
Bass - Seven nation army, sunshine of my love
Guitar - smoke on the water, stairway to heaven
Saxophone - Baker St,.

So what others on different instruments are there?

 

[Tenor Viol]

Cello - Pachelbel Canon in D

 

[LAP13]

Sax: careless whisper, the pink panther
Piano: Fur Elise, Bat out of hell intro
Trumpet: Cherry Pink

 

[Mark Hancock]

Double bass - stand by me

 

[Mark Hancock]

Soprano sax - songbird

 

[Mark Hancock]

Tenor sax - tequila

 

[Mark Hancock]

Drums - wipeout

 

[nigeld]

Bassoon - the first 8 bars of Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto.

 

[jbtsax]

Any jazz licks that go longer than 30 seconds. This applies especially to customers who want to try out their sax after it has been repaired. A chromatic scale from low Bb to high F will tell you everything you need to know about the quality of the repair. Demonstrating you can play "Giant Steps" just isn't necessary.

 

[Pete Effamy]

John Cage - 4’33” is so annoying

 

[hedgehog]

Pipe organ: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

(Yes, it may be hard to find a pipe organ in a shop, but just in case...)

 

[GCinCT]

Piano - Piano Man

I have a friend who is a very good piano player who greets any request for that song with, "That will be $50, please".

 

[nigeld]

John Cage - 4’33” is so annoying

I suspect most shop assistants would prefer me to play that rather than the alternatives.

 

[Nikki]

I wouldn’t give a chit about upsetting music shop salespeople. It’s a MUSIC shop. If they expect not to be upset or annoyed by people playing instruments, then they are in the wrong business.

 

[GCinCT]

I wouldn’t give a chit about upsetting music shop salespeople. It’s a MUSIC shop. If they expect not to be upset or annoyed by people playing instruments, then they are in the wrong business.

Nikki, I like your style!

 

[Nikki]

I play ‘In the Mood’ by Glen Miller a few times

 

[jbtsax]

I wouldn’t give a chit about upsetting music shop salespeople. It’s a MUSIC shop. If they expect not to be upset or annoyed by people playing instruments, then they are in the wrong business.

I take it you have never worked in a music shop.

 

[Nikki]

I take it you have never worked in a music shop.

No and my answer remains the same.
Surely anyone working in one HAS to expect noise from musician instruments.

 

[Pete Effamy]

I suspect most shop assistants would prefer me to play that rather than the alternatives.

Actually, it did the rounds in music college and Universities amongst types who thought they had a developed sense of humour.

 

[6441]

Most of those working in music shops are getting a long rest from, and possibly missing hearing all the aforementioned iconic melodies?