# What should I name my sheet music store? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 16, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438 "2013-10-16T21:47:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/41 "2013-10-17T19:33:14Z")
Everything From A To G The MetroGnome ---
**Author:** ![Orionizer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orionizer/32/4442_2.png) [@Orionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orionizer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/42 "2013-10-17T19:41:43Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Very appropriate as she’s having treble coming up with a name. > d&r Heh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/43 "2013-10-17T19:42:11Z")
Be Natural/Sharp Sheet Music ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/44 "2013-10-17T19:44:20Z")
Can you only sell compositions based on the lauded David Simon HBO series, “The Wire”? Because if so, you could name it: SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/45 "2013-10-17T20:22:28Z")
Cleff’s Notes ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/46 "2013-10-17T20:27:26Z")
The Score Store ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/47 "2013-10-17T20:38:03Z")
The Perfect Score ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/48 "2013-10-17T21:15:52Z")
Can’t Get the Staff Breve Encounter ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/49 "2013-10-17T22:45:23Z")
Hot Licks.\* \*On a licorice stick. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/50 "2013-10-17T23:57:16Z")
Egbdf ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/51 "2013-10-18T00:13:23Z")
Emily’s Liszt [Reed College](http://www.reed.edu/). That way a web search for the school also turns up your site. Staff Meeting Stanza Loan Go Blow Too bad it’s not a guitar site, cuz I’d call it "Take Your Pick"TM. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/52 "2013-10-18T16:12:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The Perfect Score I meant this. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/53 "2013-10-18T16:22:03Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Yeah, I’m going to go ahead and vote that if you’re too afraid to put your name down on a message board, it absolutely shouldn’t be the name you use in your business title. I certainly disagree with this. I’m happy and proud to have my full name in my business name, but I don’t care to proffer it on a message board. The odds of some net-surfing oddball running across it and maybe doing something squirrelly are far greater if it’s on a board. ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/54 "2013-10-18T18:25:33Z")
The Bent Reed Leaf Notes The Sheet Reeder Mariah’s Woods and Reeds (obscure, but “Mariah” makes sense for woodwind music) Behind Bars ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/55 "2013-10-18T19:06:50Z")
> [@Orionizer](#): > > trebleclefmusic > > or > > treblemusic > > I say treble since you seem to be targeting instruments in this range. > > PS - Used to play clarinet in middle/high school. Actually went to NC Governor’s school on Alto! I played the alto clarinet in college. In fact, my top-selling composition so far has been a piece for alto clarinet. And thanks for the advice, **WordMan**. ---
**Author:** ![Jake\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Jake\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake_Jones)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/56 "2013-10-19T09:15:17Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Unless you have a LOT of money to take a made-up word and market the heck out of it to get it associated with your service, that can be a hard way to go. Your instinct is correct - “Emily’s Clarinet and Other Winds Sheet Music” - would be MUCH more likely to be identified by Google as - wait for it - a website focused on sheet music for clarinet and other winds. Okay - that example is a bit boring, but you get the idea. And if you feature they key words - likely to be “clarinet” “winds” and “sheet music” - prominently on every page and in all of the internal, website page descriptors - it will be much more likely that you are playing the SEO the best you can and will have a chance to picked up as a search result. Meh. I would say that company name is fairly unimportant as far as Google is concerned (and let’s be honest, for all practical purposes SEO means “deconstructing Google searches”). I understand the logic that says your company name should describe your company, but this has much more to do with human recognition than search engine recognition and I don’t completely buy the logic, either. Sheet music for wind instruments is a sufficiently narrow marketplace that I don’t think there’s much concern about getting lost in the noise of hundreds of online competitors. The content, traffic and links to and from your site are going to be infinitely more important to your search engine results than the name of your company anyway, so I think compromising the name to one of pure utility in the hopes of a top Google search result is probably a mistake. I like “Notes” as part of a company name for a sheet music vendor. It’s not a terribly clever double meaning, I just like it aesthetically. Pages of Notes Musician’s Notes Notes for the Winds Just some ideas that appeal to me. The main point I’m trying to make is that you should choose a name that appeals to you. SEO is a whole other consideration, and not one that should be too closely tied to your decision of what to name the company (in my less than expert but somewhat informed opinion). ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/57 "2013-10-19T11:06:31Z")
A Big Pile of Sheet. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/58 "2013-10-19T12:34:47Z")
Vellumptuous. 😃 Good luck with the new venture. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/59 "2013-10-19T12:39:40Z")
**The Score Store** mmm ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438/60 "2013-10-19T15:08:15Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > The Score Store > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > **The Score Store** Great minds… 🙂 (But I still like “The Perfect Score” better…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-name-my-sheet-music-store/671438.md?page=4)