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The song remains the same
By Mark Hansen
Kansan staff writer
Loose change and dollar bills can pay for laundry, as well as bar music.
Lawrence bars have a variety of songs ready to spin in their jukeboxes — but some bar patrons and workers say the needle is spinning.
the jukebox at Louise's, 1009 Massachusetts St., plays three songs for $1, seven for $2 and 18 for $5, which is a common price system in bars. Adam Mansfield, Louise's manager, said he often heard Creedence Clearwater Revival and Stevie Ray Vaughn in the bar.
Mansfield attributed Lawrence bar patrons's static song choices to the popularity of an album's singles.
"Iused to like them until I heard their songs a million times,"he said.
"People play the same song on an album," he said. "You hear a few songs on a few select albums instead of some other songs on
At Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St., $1 can play The Doors classics, including "The End."
"I if hear that one more time I'm going to crack," bartender Brett Toomav said.
that album you might like to hear."
"We had to take out The Cars' Moving in Stereo because it was played about 20 times a night," bartender Dana Wiseman said. "That's a good one though."
Wiseman said an employee of Love Garden Music, 936 and 1/2 Mass. St., managed the Lounge's inukbox selection.
At The Eighth Street Taproom,
801 New Hampshire St., $3 can
play Brian Eno, Jacques de Trunk
and a song from an array of CDs
by local bands. Most of its CDs
are from bar employees' private
collections.
Bartender Brian MacDonald said the Pixies and Beck were stalwarts about the Taproom's speakers. But his ears have grown weary to jazz.
"It's a sad thing, but Coltrane
and Miles Davis have gotten played out," he said, adding Beck might be next.
Fatso's, 1016,
Mass. St., offers
5 plays for $1.
Bartender
Chris Small
said James
Brown was
the hardest
working
musician
playing from
the bar's jukebox.
Michael O'Brien, Winnetka, Ill., senior, said, "I'm never very happy with any jukebox. There's not enough
box. "He more or less diversity," he said. "Juke-boxes in general put a premium on nostalgia."
O'Brien said hip-hop music was a glaring omission from Lawrence jukeboxes. He was surprised jukeboxes hadn't
embraced download and CD burning technology to rotate more CDs.
Hansen can be reached at 864-4810 or writer@kansan.com
Shop offers the sounds of music
By Christa Henton and Gia Hua Specials to the Kansan
With the harp looming above her, Emma Woodard leans her instrument against her shoulder. She can barely reach the furthest strings.
Her fingers create a familiar song, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
As Woodard finishes, she stretches her arms out for the last scale and pulls them back for the final "ping" of the highest note.
Her small audience stands to applaud, and Woodard smiles a proud, tight-lipped grin.
Emma Woodard is 8-years-old and just one of Phyllis Hoffman's 50 students.
"She's an amazing student," said Hoffman, midwest regional director of the American Harp Society. "She reminds me of myself when I was her age."
At age 52, Hoffman opened the Hoffman Harp Gallery, 1341 Massachusetts St., with friend, Randall Platt.
Now, in their second year, they are the only full-service harp store between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains and one of five such stores in the nation.
"We originally started looking for a location in Kansas City, but rent over there was around $3,000," Platt said. "We got this place for $750 a month, bills paid."
Hoffman Harp Gallery sold 40 harps last year. Platt said profits from those harp sales accounted for about 90 percent of their earnings.
"You can't run a business just teaching. You teach to raise interest, and that's what raises your sales," he said. "As far as projections for next year, the only thing I can say is I hope to keep it going."
Word of mouth may be the easiest way to drive sales, but advertising in harp trade magazines and mailers definitely would help. Platt said.
"We probably don't do enough national advertising like direct mail," Platt said. "But, we don't feel like we're ready for that mass
vet."
Although Hoffman's Harp Gallery may not be ready for the masses, it is doing well on Mass. Street. With Lawrence listed by John Villani's book as one of the "100 Best Art Towns in America," the town seems a fitting home for such a unique business.
The gallery's uniqueness is exactly what excites Emma Woodard about playing the harp. Emma sits back on her stool, cocks her head away from her harp and says, "This is so much cooler than piano."
Henton and Hua can be reached at 864-4810 or writer@kansan.com
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