Name like Chipps, you'd have had to gone North, lad... It's all chickpeas and chorizo down here now - I have to head for the midlands to get a decent pork scratching these days. Sorry, guitar shops, did you say? The outrageously overpriced Vintage and Rare, pandering to the outrageously over-moneyed London refugees who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Dick sun and plonker likewise but without the charm. Honorable mention in dispatches for Sounds International on Monmouth Street, who try very hard to compete on price, but are catering mostly for the bedroom and schools end of the market. Bath Music Centre recently closed, Assembly Music (Widcombe) went the same way years ago, maybe before you left. The choice is poor...