Photo by Deb Gau Signs outside the Note Gallery on Main Street announces the store is going out of business. The Schreier family, who owned and operated the Note Gallery over more than a decade, announced last week they will be selling the store inventory and closing the retail portion of the business this fall.

MARSHALL — It’s been a Main Street business for over a decade in Marshall. But the Note Gallery’s real impact came through teaching music, members of the Schreier family said.

While the Schreiers announced late last week that the Note Gallery storefront will be closing down, Terry Schreier will continue to offer music lessons in a new location.

Terry Schreier said teaching music was a passion for his mother Sue Schreier, one of the Note Gallery’s founders. After Sue died in May 2023, the family was faced with a difficult decision about the business.

“While it was always a dream of mom’s to have a storefront of her own, her true passion lay in teaching music to others. It is with this in mind that we, as a family, have decided to close the retail storefront of The Note Gallery,” the Schreier family wrote in a Facebook announcement on Friday.

“We want to continue her legacy by doing lessons,” Terry Schreier said Tuesday. He plans to continue teaching at space located at the Tiger Office Park on East Main Street, beginning Oct. 1.

This week, signs outside the Note Gallery went up, saying the store was going out of business. Schreier said the business is trying to sell its current retail inventory.

Sue Schreier and her family opened the Note Gallery on Main Street in 2012. The business offered both retail inventory, like instruments, sheet music and equipment, and music lessons.

In recent years, the Note Gallery, like many local small businesses, had to weather the effects of the COVID pandemic and supply chain disruptions. In 2021, Sue Schreier told the Independent that music lessons — both virtual and in-person — had grown to make up more of the Note Gallery’s business activity.

Terry Schreier has been running the business since Sue’s death last year. However, he said, this summer the family decided it would be best to close the retail portion of the Note Gallery. The store will close by the end of September, he said.

At the same time, the Schreiers said the change won’t affect the music instruction that students receive from the Note Gallery. There will be no changes to current lesson schedules, they said.