{"id":1630,"date":"2017-01-03T14:39:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T14:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2017-01-03T14:39:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T14:39:36","slug":"piano-company-is-thriving-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"Piano Company is thriving downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1631\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/102-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/102-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/102-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/102-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/102-1200x861.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"U11601194603116cZF\">Transporting more than 100 pianos across town last spring, from Battlefield Shopping Center to Market Street in downtown Leesburg, was no easy task. In fact, Robert Purdon, general manager of the Piano Company, described the move as \u201ca logistical nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/piano-company-feels-right-at-home-in-new-downtown-leesburg-location\/2016\/12\/29\/55c80cb6-c850-11e6-8bee-54e800ef2a63_story.html?utm_term=.25193b180b8b\" target=\"_blank\">after 16 years at the store\u2019s<b> <\/b>previous site, Purdon is happy with the shift to the current location<\/a>, near the Loudoun County Government Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/piano-company-feels-right-at-home-in-new-downtown-leesburg-location\/2016\/12\/29\/55c80cb6-c850-11e6-8bee-54e800ef2a63_story.html?utm_term=.25193b180b8b\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, Jan. 1, 2017<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1632\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/302.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1632\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/302-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/302-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/302-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/302-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/302-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autographs of Herbie Hancock, Randy Weston, and others can be seen inside the $250,000 Fazioli concert grand on display at the store.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transporting more than 100 pianos across town last spring, from Battlefield Shopping Center to Market Street in downtown Leesburg, was no easy task. In fact, Robert Purdon, general manager of the Piano Company, described the move as \u201ca logistical nightmare.\u201d But after 16 years at the store\u2019s previous site, Purdon is happy with the shift &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1630\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Piano Company is thriving downtown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[94,18,22,14,3,2],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-arts","tag-business","tag-downtown","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}