126 - 128 Deansgate is home to Forsyth's music shop (the image above was taken in 2010).  The Forsyth brothers settled in Manchester in 1857 coming to the city to assist Charles Hallé set up the Hallé Orchestra.  The Forsyth store which extends over five floors, has over 40 members of staff, all experts in their field.  It is the largest general music shop in the UK offering quality new and old acoustic pianos in the country.

This building is in fact a remnant of a huge furniture warehouse and showroom that once occupied the whole block and ran back along both Bridge Street and King Street West.  By 1886 this huge store had already been reduced in size but my copy of a map from 1886, seen below, shows the remaining portion along Deansgate.  You will note that at the corner of Bridge Street and Deansgate the building is called "Ogdens Buildings' and the Ogden in question was Henry Ogden, cabinet maker, who owned this huge furniture and upholstery showroom. 

Further evidence can be found in the decoration on the building's facade.  There you will find Henry Ogden's initials ....

You can see an engraving of the building at the Manchester Libraries web site. (click on the link below)

Henry Ogden & Co

If you look carefully at the central portion of the building in the engraving, you will see that it is the building above.  The Romanesque windows on the first and second floor are there, as are the rectangular windows on the third floor.  The stone tablet at the top of the building today once read "Manchester", the one below the third floor read "Furnishing Warehouse" and the one above the first floor windows said "Henry Ogden & Co".  Only the pediment at the top of the building and the street level show windows are missing. 

Ironically in 1886, as you can see in the map above, the building was a music warehouse.