A very friendly environment! There are a ton of books, so it’s quite likely that they may have exactly what you’re looking for!
Didnt get my product. It says delivered but didnt get anything. Contacted them and just told me to check with neighboors and with the postal service. No help at all
Scott reached out to me and tried offering me $4500 for $50,000 in inventory… Says a lot about someone.
2. 16 and State Mercantile
Address: 114 W State St, Nokomis, IL 62075 , Nokomis , Illinois , United States
Staff is super friendly and knowledgeable of good music! Definitely stop by check it out, found many rare gems
This is a really cool store for a small town. I buy some new vinyl here and there but I’m mostly on the lookout for vintage rock/metal/blues LP’s. They seem to come up with new stuff each week, making it worthwhile to stop in regularly. There are good finds in the bargain bins as well. I’ve bought a lot of records here. Stop in and check them out.
4. Sound Source Music Center
Address: 1609 Broadway Ave E, Mattoon, IL 61938 , Nokomis , Illinois , United States
Sound source Music has a great selection of DJ’s, up lighting, and photo booths. They DJ weddings at our venue often and are always professional and timely. Thanks for being a great vendor to work with!
Mike, the owner ALWAYS takes great care of its customers! If anyone has any experiences less then their expectations, just talk to Mike, he’ll stand 110% behind you as we me all along the way from my first encounter with him many years ago to this day! and if I could over shoot the rating with a six star, I would in a heartbeat! It doesn’t get any better then him. If any of you have a questionible issue, you can message me on Facebook before leaving negative reviews. You should see sound source for, and all of your sound and light needs as they are there to increase and MAKE sound events as feasible as possible, whether you want to DIY or simply just have it done, that’s why it’s SOUND SOURCE! Let’s all help keep a caring music outlet who are ALWAYS ready to serve and help intact as too many are falling wayside of the internet. Passing through? Why not just poke In to discover the even increasing line of many new types and brands of speakers and DJ gear constantly arriving on display ready to demo for your next event!
This place has awesome customer service. With the 30 warranty on all guitars on any issue without question or hesitation they will fix it. This place is refreshing and I for one am very happy and thankful to have a music store like this. I highly recommend going here for all music needs.
In the late 90s early 2000’s this was an awesome store. Used CD’s, Ppl who loved to talk about old bands and music culture, It was different. Mind you, they still have great instrument selection, and fair prices for a small business. Some staff is decent, some have the personality of a week old gym sock. I’d say if your local, pick up your kids first instrument there and support local small business. Idk if the lead dude from x-crush still works there, but he was awesome. but it’s a lottery.
I remember your Christmas store at the Mall always used to eye the Bass in the box and now i am playing that a Jazz Bass i bought i am now in Tennessee so thanks for helping with my dreams
Love going there and stuff but idk if it was one of the employees or just a customer, but this older guy walked up to me and my friend and made a really rude comment about our colored hair “did you wake up late at a party or something?” How the actual heck would anyone think that is an ok thing to say?????
That was one of my favorite music stores to go to and now I’m not so sure, if it were an employee who sayid that. I’m pretty sure it was because he walked to the back after that. If you have colored hair and you take hate comments too seriously, be careful.
So you want to call on the dude behind me in line and not even greet me or tell me to have a nice day? Poor way to run a business. The old white guy at the front is rude and inconsiderate. He chose to serve the man behind me in line, likely because I’m a woman, so congrats on losing not only my 42$ purchase I got refunded today; but all future purchases from my multi instrumentalist husband that has been a customer here for over 6 years. I’ll buy from Amazon before giving my money to rude old men. Do better. Hope it was worth it for that dudes 12 dollars worth of strings.
My family came in just a few minutes ago and they were very ride to us. My boyfriend, who is normally a very strong person, just walked out of this place in tears because they made him feel embarrassed. Smh. Rude rude employees who act like musical elites.
5. Music & Arts
Address: 10 Lincoln Hwy #102B, Fairview Heights, IL 62208 , Nokomis , Illinois , United States
Went in to get a string replaced on my daughter’s guitar, they were extremely nice and even tuned it after replacing the string. It only took about 5 minutes and we were on our way, will definitely be doing all our shopping here for anything music related.
Excellent service great rental prices
Great selection!
This location was respectful and as helpful as they could be in my experience; HOWEVER, when i reached out to customer service regarding being double charged the representative hung up in my face. I called back 3 additional times requesting to speak with a supervisor and was immediately hung up on yet again. UNBELIEVABLE.
6. Nokomis
Address: Illinois 62075 , Nokomis , Illinois , United States
7. Miller Music Inc
Address: 4510 N Illinois St #3, Swansea, IL 62226 , Nokomis , Illinois , United States
Steve was great to work with! Very quick turnaround on an instrument repair. I would recommend them.
He quickly repaired my son’s clarinet for a very reasonable price.
Been coming here for 18+ years! Loyal. I will not go elsewhere. If they don’t have what you need, they can and will help you to find it. Best music shop around! A+ customer service.
They appear to no longer be in business.
The owners were rude and condescending. I got the impression that not EVERYONE was welcome in their store. They may have a large selection of music, but I’ll take my money and my dignity to other music stores.
I took my niece to Miller Music to see about having an issue fixed with her flute. The guy working looked at it for a few seconds and said he didn’t notice any issues (leaks) visible to the eye. I then asked if it would be okay for her to play the instrument for him so that he could listen, and hopefully make a diagnosis that way. He responded with, “Yeah, hurry up.” Needless to say, the instrument is still having an issue. When we purchased the couple of instruments we have, he was polite. Now that there’s an issue, “Mr. Nice Guy” left the building. I’d never recommend anyone to buy anything else from them again.
Simply call to find out the brand of acoustic guitars they sold when I mentioned name brands the lady was set off very rude on the phone and hung up on me her name was Sharon
8. Swing City Music Co
Address: 1811 Vandalia St, Collinsville, IL 62234 , Nokomis , Illinois , United States
This place is very helpful for all of your music needs.
Great staff. Very helpful. Decent variety of used gear. Always fun to see what oddball instruments they have acquired.
The staff at this store is amazing. Very helpful and fair. George was great in helping me to purchase a D-18. Massive inventory. I highly recommend this music store for any musician at any level. Thanks again for your help, guys!
It’s a really good place. Sorry, we were the ones that crashed intk the building
A good old school music store.
My experiences their have been very bad. Only 2 people in the store know anything. The owner who name is Art is a complete and total jerk!!! Don’t expect him to respect you unless you are spending loads of Cash. His workers are nice. The store though just feels dusty everytime I walk in their. This has been my experience. Use to like them now Im just fed up with customer service. They do have rare gear tho. Which for me is why I liked visiting their.
They hate drummers. Lost a sale because they were condescending to a young man I was with. We’ll be taking our business elsewhere.
The entrance was beautiful the photos of all the different artist and musicians was wonderful and gave me an idea of what I could be some day. I was greeted appropriately, and they answered all my questions, but that was just what they did. They didn’t ask any further questions or give me a reason to be there and learn about the infinite possibilities of music from them and their instructors. It seemed like their knowledge of music and instruments had become just a job.
9. Halpin Music Company
Address: 88 Northport Dr, Alton, IL 62002 , Nokomis , Illinois , United States
Small inventory and high prices on small items. Great sale prices on guitars though
Never open on weekends! When do these people think musicians play and need gear??
My son’s saxophone has been there a number of times. The last time he got it back the band director said that it wasn’t fixed. It went back and still hasn’t been fixed for 3 weeks! I have traveled down there in the past and had several words with them. This is the last time it goes back!
3 weeks, to have simple repair done. Repair tech in Centralia is discriminatory against people with disabilities, and is a hateful man. He refused to work on my horn after it had been in the Centralia shop for two and a half weeks. They never called me about anything, I had to call them every time to find out any information about my horn. Left several messages that was never returned. Ended up having to have my horn worked on in the Alton shop, I had to to drive TWO and a HALF HOUR OVER 200 MI and pay full price for a repair with no discount even after the tech in Centralia was belligerent and derelict in his responsibilities to fix my sax after it was there for over 2 NEVER AGAIN
10. Byassee Music and Sound
Address: 521 W Main St, Marion, IL 62959 , Nokomis , Illinois , United States
Great selection of gear and had exactly what I was looking for. Highly recommended, 5 stars.
It is an excellent music store with almost anything you need for almost any instrument.
My old review talked about their upsales. They seem to have adjusted some things and whatnot since then so good on them for taking feedback.
Best place ever to me
Very friendly and helpful. Nice to still have a brick and mortar music store in the area.
Really nice people, just very overpriced
They sold me a violin for 2,000 and when I had it appraised the specialist said they cost $100 for a set of three. I will never do business with them again and I urge anyone to go elsewhere
