"I suppose it's an era that, in this day and age, is bound to come to an end," he says.
Humphreys says he can only hope that someone will agree to buy the store and keep it as it is.
"People take music lessons, and they need sheet music and books," he reasons.
Loud, too, finds a demand for the service Briggs & Briggs provides.
"There is a real need for music stores, for a place that sell sheet music and music books alone, a place where you can pick up both your Beatles album and your Gershwin," Loud says.
"There is no longer any place like that around the Harvard Square area, and that's a great loss," he continues.
As Humphreys surveys his space, with its bookshelves packed with sheet music, signs handwritten in marker and boxes-upon-boxes in the back room, the phone rings.
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