King's Music

Selling instruments requires a wide catchment, and in Chilliwack that means the south end rather than the downtown. King's Music is listed on Luckakuck Way, the closest thing this city has to a big-box strip, running between Cottonwood Centre and its something over seventy tenancies and Chilliwack Mall across the way. That is among the heaviest retail traffic in the city, in a neighborhood holding a wildly disproportionate share of the storefronts for its size.

There is a street but no building number, and neither a phone number nor a website is published, so there is no way to tell which parts of that trade it covers. Sales, rental, repair and teaching are four different businesses that often share one room, and knowing which are on offer is exactly the sort of thing to establish before turning up with a broken instrument under one arm. Shops of this kind run at their busiest in September, and a rental is hardest to come by in those same weeks, which argues for calling in during August rather than after the first week of school. The postal code will get a map to the right stretch of Luckakuck Way. The rest is a question for the counter.