Happy New Year!

From the team at Australian Music World

We hope that you had a lovely break and spent some quality time with your loved ones.

Thank you again for all of your support in 2019, we had a wonderful year and couldn’t have done it without you. We’ve got a lot of exciting plans for the next few months which we can’t wait to share with you in the coming weeks.

Breakdown:

1. New website went live in July and we had more than 30,000 visitors since then (that’s 30% growth compared to first half of the year)

2. New music studios completed, 6x rooms - more than 700 hours of lessons held here already!

3. New stage installed at our Burwood warehouse, several private events and 14 teacher concerts hosted already

4. Representing World-leading brands: Ritmüller dealership taken over exclusively, Rönisch dealership taken over exclusively, Hupfeld dealership for the first time in Australia… As well as another very exciting brand locked in and ready to be announced later in January!

5. Hosted AMEB and ABRSM exams from our new event-space

6. Major showroom renovations on track to begin in February (finger’s crossed just signing off the last few details!)

7. We have pledged to plant Eucalytpus trees to support the struggling koala population in 2020 (since arranging this, the fires have been so much more horrific than we possibly could have imagined - we are currently in discussions about how we can do more - stay tuned)

8. Our best year yet for piano sales, a total of 7 large containers imported!

In response to the 2019 bushfires, we will plant a tree with every new piano sold.

I’m sure you don’t need to be reminded about how hard the last few months have been for Australia’s koala population. Although we have it easy down here in Melbourne and our shop is not engulfed in toxic smoke like so many businesses on the East coast, we are still horrified to read about what has been happening in recent months.

When Ginger’s 5-year-old daughter Zoe was asked if she cares about koalas, the immediate response was a big face-splitting grin and an enthusiastic “YES”. So we figured we’d better keep her happy and (although it’s only a small gesture considering the unfathomably large scale of terrible climate changes happening around us) we have decided that for each new piano sold from December 2019 we will be donating to the Australian Koala Foundation for them to plant a Eucalyptus tree at the Quinlan’s sanctuary.

In response to the Australian climate disaster, we will plant a tree with every new piano sold.

We’re stretched very thin at the moment with Christmas almost upon us, but as soon as things quiet down over here, I’ll update this post with more information, and most importantly: cute koala photos!

If you have any thoughts or feedback for us then we would love to hear from you. Please feel free to contact us or write a comment below.

Yay! A Sale!

Just in case you missed it, we’re clearing out space for some major renovations lined up at the start of 2020. This means that until the 24th of December we’re offering clearance pricing on almost everything in store.

Up to 40% off!

You can read more about this on our Christmas sale page.

Sale pricing includes 30% off Traditional Chinese Instruments, 40% off Brass & Woodwind, 20% off Guitars, and 30% off Violins, Violas, & Cellos. We also have at least 10% off all of our second-hand Kawai and Yamaha Japanese-made pianos with selected models up to 30% off.

Note: all items are available in-store only, we will be re-launching our online store after the renovations are completed.

So what are these renovations we’ve been talking about?

Basically, we wanted a little more retail space for our Vermont South showroom so that we could use our warehouse primarily as an event space, as we’ve been doing recently with end-of-year concerts for local teachers as well as hosting some AMEB and ABRSM examinations.

Of course, we’re very excited about all of this and will be updating regularly on our social media pages (in particular, we are quite consistent with our Facebook and Instagram updates). Please follow us if you’d like to stay in the loop:

There’s room to improve!

It turns out there’s more than 2-metres of unused space above this drop-ceiling, so that’s simply got to be ripped out! We’ll also be removing the offices and practice rooms that are currently hogging the back-half of our shop in order to allow more floor-space to showcase our piano range. Especially as we’re finding more and more customers are enquiring after grand pianos and our high-end upright pianos. Hopefully we can create a more dynamic and flexible space to best support local teachers and musicians.

What’s the goal?

We’re hoping to create a much cleaner and more minimalist feel (think: “Scandinavian vibe” with lots of light tones and natural materials) in the store. The goal is to make coming to work even more fun than it already is but also to help showcase our instruments with a more open layout and relaxing space. Although the showroom will better reflect the quality of our most premium products, we will continue to stock a range of popular entry-level pianos at the same highly-competitive pricing as we’ve always done. After all, we’re here to share music with everyone at all stages of their musical journeys - not just the families or individuals that are ready to invest in German and European-made pianos.

That’s about it

I’d rather not bloat these blog-posts just to try and improve our Google search rankings. That’s about everything I wanted to share with you for now, if you have any questions of course please get in touch. If you were hoping this would be a longer article or blog post, I’m sorry to disappoint. Just wait until someone gets me started about technical aspects of pianos and you’ll wish you hadn’t asked!

Thanks for reading and we hope to see you in-store soon.