Is Guitar Center next?

An older business model fades away.

When I started teaching guitar lessons in 1996, I did the lessons at what used to be known as “Thoroughbred Music”, on Lee Rd. in Orlando. A few years later, Sam Ash bought that store along with a few others in Orlando, Tampa and Clearwater. Subsequently, all of the music teachers were asked to discontinue teaching at the store on Lee Rd. We were told t…