"One day the man who used to own Stonestreets said to me, 'We have a good clientele, the rents are low, there is no evening or Sunday work, what more can you ask for?'"
"Now," Humphreys says, "all those things have changed."
But they didn't change too quickly for the venerable Briggs & Briggs.
Through the early 1990s even, business was robust.
In addition to an assortment of sheet music ranging from Eric Clapton to Beethoven, Humphreys sold a mix of classical, folk and world music.
"What we sell is pretty specialized," he says, pointing to a rack of music from Hungary, Bulgaria, Mongolia and elsewhere.
The specialized nature of the music was more of a lure to Harvard Square customers than it is to those in Porter Square, Humphreys says.
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