1st September 2008
Drumsticks, guitars galore!
I'm trying to learn to play the drums, so I found myself in Hooters music shop looking at drumsticks. I was pleasantly surprised at the variety of sizes and even brands. There's 5A, 7A, etc sizes from brands like Zildjian and Vic Firth. There are even Travis Barker (from blink-182, Transplants, +44) signature sticks from Zildjian.
Needless to say, I bought myself a few pairs, and was quite pleased with the prices (the most expensive ones, the Travis Barker sticks, costing £10, and the other pairs costing about £8 I think) although I know they could be cheaper if I got them online.
I then wandered over to the guitar section and was amazed at the quality of guitars. Most were good quality guitars from good brands. Others were the cheapies from some small, unknown brand, but that's to be expected. There was even a Hello Kitty guitar I saw!
I was very surprised to find flutes, clarinets and other woodwind instruments, as I always thought Hooters to be almost completely guitar-oriented. Having played a flute for some time, I had a look at those as well.
Nothing was about the shop, so I'm going to give it a 5/5.