Virus TI now with free dust

[suzzymackenzie]

My heart goes out to traditional music gear retailers. Business is so bad that cutbacks have had to include luxuries such as keeping the place clean and having a supply of electrical sockets and batteries to hand.

Yesterday I popped into Andertons in Guildford to see what was around, have a closer look at the Waldorf kb and maybe audition this and that under the cunning guise of shelling out £2.99 for a couple of egg shakers. Everything I looked at was encrusted with several weeks worth of dust. Virus TI under dust, a Nord Wave under dust. I asked to audition a G Natural acoustic guitar fx unit. You would have thought I'd asked for the moon with a selection of galactic pickles. While the assistant hunted high and low for a battery to feed the demo guitar, then had to go break open a new mains extension just to plug it in, I twiddled a few knobs on the unit and found that it too was ... under dust. My finger came back thick with it. "Of course we wouldn't sell you the demo unit, you'd get a new one..." Right you are!

Tip: get a feather duster and a hoover, Andertons