Susan Paynter wrote a lovely bye-for-now column ^[1] today to Capitol Music, arguably Seattle’s finest sheet music and instrument store.

It seems Capitol Music is being kicked out of their space by developers who bought up the building. They’re hoping to reopen in Belltown, but it sounds like a long shot.

Paynter said that they were closing tomorrow. So I hurried over for a last few purchases, only to find a small handwritten sign on the locked door and a few sad-looking employees packing away everything in their store down to the hooks on the wall.

Sniff. Come back soon, Capitol Music. My piano playing might get even worse without you.