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Bright Opens new Guitar Store in Champaign

Christian Wissmuller • Upfront • January 13, 2014

The News-Gazette (Ill.) is reporting that Ricky Bright, former manager of both The Music Shoppe and Samuel Music in Champaign, Illinois, is opening his own guitar store, The Upper Bout.

Bright decided to go into business for himself after Samuel Music closed its local store last summer.

"I was blessed to see how things were done properly and not so properly," he told The News-Gazette. "I had a certain vision that was never supported by other people, and now I'm going to pursue it on my own."

The new store will carry midrange to high-end guitars, including Gibson and Fender brands. He'll also sell Yamaha pianos, as well as banjos and mandolins.

Guitar, voice, piano and bass guitar lessons will be given in the shop's teaching studios. Bright said he has two teachers lined up so far and hopes to expand to four or five in the next couple months.

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