Staff was very busy. It was lunch time when I visited
It’s guitar center …you get what you over pay for …..
Really great place to get what you need
Poor poor customer service, can’t get anyone to help me most of the time. They never have the strings I like anymore the store is dirty and poorly organized the attitude of the employees makes me like coming in less and less
It takes forever to be acknowledged and when you do if you’re not looking to spend a grand they are not very interested in helping you out, like if you just need strings and have no idea what kind to get. Maybe if I mentioned I dropped $1800 on a guitar and and amp here last week I would have had a better experience, not buying my next guitar here. Also if you shop online you get more info and don’t feel bad for asking, and you get 10 percent off usually online there is always a coupon code. So why even mess with these dudes?
Haven’t been into Guitar Center in quite some time. I stopped in for a delay pedal that the Guitar Center website told me was in stock at this location. They were extremely short staffed, with only three employees running the entire store. I know this was not the employees’ fault, but it did greatly impact the situation. After about 35 minutes of them trying to find the pedal in the back without any success, I asked if they had a different pedal in stock that I could substitute it for. It took another 15 minutes for them to find that one. In the end, I spent nearly an hour and ended up not even able to buy the thing I came in for because they couldn’t locate it in their inventory, despite the Guitar Center website saying it was in stock. I used to love going to Guitar Center because of the great selection and opportunity to try out gear before buying, or learn from their employees. This was a very disappointing experience, and I’m not sure I’ll ever be returning to a Guitar Center location.
2. B-Diff
Address: 8810 Grove St, Westminster, CO 80031 , Shaw Heights , Colorado , United States
Super helpful when we needed to fix my daughters saxophone.
We have rented, bought and taken lessons at Music & Arts. The prices are good and it’s a great business all around. Recommend!
Great! Bailey was so helpful and friendly! Got us exactly what we were looking for!
Was able to buy a great violin
Organized and clean nice staff they don’t buy instruments
I am a music teacher. This is my go to for lesson books for my students.
Why everyday is this store closed I’ve been trying to get a hold of someone since Sunday when Google says there open and I go only to see sorry we’re closed sign on the door. Today it says their closed as well.
If I could give zero stars I would. The guy is a complete as*hole! He’s rude, and gave horrible service and charges you surprise fee’s! Don’t rent from him!!
Well 6 or so years ago my daughter got her violin from here and everything was fine. She stopped after two years. My youngest son has been playing at it for two and a half years, so we needed a larger violin. Now they want to sell him one. I have had that come up in the past but I always said who knows if the will keep going. Well today they bring out this thing of beauty. My son wants it. It’s only for sale. Oh and the one he brought home, he thought it was a viola we had to look it up. Badly out of tune.
Side bar we could buy it, but the kid never practices and isn’t good. My daughter was way better. Not to be a you know what.
Anyway I ask will you buy it back if he decides he wants to stop. They say no. So we keep renting. What the heck am I supposed to do with a violin once’s he is done? Nothing sells like it use to but really of it was that great why not buy it back. So all in all if this kids goes on to be some great violin guy, then I will buy him one. But a kid nope. I guess after six kids you know how way to many things work. So hey store buy them back sell them used.
4. Devan F Guitar Services
Address: 7510 Stuart St, Westminster, CO 80030 , Shaw Heights , Colorado , United States
Dropped my Carvin off maybe 3 weeks ago and it was back in my hands in a timely manner. He reset my whole intonation and replaced the nut for a very reasonable price. It was above and beyond. I will definitely go back if i need repairs done because of the great work he did
Devan has done multiple setups for me including the installation of FU Tone parts on my 8 string Floyd Rose. He takes the time and care to get it perfectly dialed in. I also take lessons from Devan and he is incredibly knowledgeable about music and especially guitar. I thought I was a guitar nerd until I met Devan. Don’t think twice about trusting Devan with your dearest axe or with your guitar learning experience.
5. 432 Studios
Address: 8868 Federal Blvd, Denver, CO 80260 , Shaw Heights , Colorado , United States
Karen has been our daughter’s violin teacher for about a year and a half now. She teaches at a good pace and we can see the progress that my daughter has been making. Karen is great with kids and is very encouraging with them, although she also has many adult students. We enjoying seeing all her students perform at the recitals that Karen puts together twice a year. I would not hesitate to recommend Karen to anyone who is looking for a string instruments instructor.
We love, love, love going to Silverstrings . My daughter has been taking lessons from Karen Lauffer for years. The new studio is modern and has lots of seat for parents and students. It’s great that the studio now has room to offer lessons to so many different types of musicians.
As an adult violin student, I appreciate Karen’s methodology, professionalism, positive support and how she works with adults. I have always felt at ease and encouraged. During the pandemic, she never relented in trying to find ways to continue to work with her students. Basically, she is an awesome teacher and amazing person. I would recommend her to any age of student from 5 years to 95 years.
Did not respond to inquiries about lessons despite follow up emails. I finally gave up and went to another location.
8. Unit 12 Studios
Address: 8020 N Federal Blvd, Westminster, CO 80031 , Shaw Heights , Colorado , United States
Assessment: ★★★★½
4.8/5 based on 4 evaluations.
Reviews
Dope place, atmosphere is great engineers are the best out there!!!
Amazing studio space! Highly recommend it!
Good studio
9. Blue Dreamz Studio
Address: 8868 Federal Blvd, Denver, CO 80260 , Shaw Heights , Colorado , United States
This has to be one fantasticly run studio’s. All the knowledge and style one could expect. Highly recommended
I love regarding with Flowlove. Seth always has a great environment for creating. His engineer Colin is always focused and ready to to. If looking to record in Westminster/Arvada area check him out.
Perfect spot to chill out and make music, 420 friendly a huge plus for me personally and Seth is a great engineer to work with.
14. Flesher Hinton Music
Address: 5890 W 44th Ave, Wheat Ridge, CO 80212 , Shaw Heights , Colorado , United States
Went into the store looking for piano sheet music. Found some I liked, but not the one piece I went there for. The manager (?) found what I was looking for on a digital site and was able to print it out for me. Great service.
The repair techs are the best in the business and supplies are competitively priced.
I am a musician and have been involved with Flesher-Hinton for over 10 years. They always have a wonderful selection to meet my needs and the staff are very knowlegable. I highly recommend Flesher-Hinton for all your music needs!
Like always the services people were just great.
The people employees are professional, knowledgeable, and ready to help!
As with any store like this, you can expect them to be salesmen, though they don’t push too hard and don’t avoid helping you find the lowest priced items.
The technicians are great, but I wish they had a bit more enthusiasm.
If you are testing out brass instruments or such, the practice room they put me in had too much reverb to get accurate samples, even with a recording device. I have yet to ask if they had a more acoustically dry room.
They can order sheet music and products, and have all the basics and many accessories for band musicians.
There’s parking at the new location. Really reasonably priced supplies. Not the best selection for buying instruments though. Since their relocation, seems they’re putting more emphasis on instrument repair. Still probably the best music supply shop in the area
Just terrible experience! Purchased a new wood clarinet 5 months ago. Found out it was cracking, unfortunately happens if not taken care of, but not in the first 5 months.
Took 2+ months to fix, when we finally picked it up, some old guy in the store started telling my 16 year old daughter about keeping it greased every six months- lecturing her because it was so dried out! Finally stepped in and told him…we bought it here less than 5 months ago…in other words, you sold an old dried out clarinet for $2000.00. Will never ever step foot in this store again d/t the service dept.
Went in to check out acoustic guitars earlier today. Got an important call as I was about to tune a guitar I was checking out and the guy behind the counter just starts blowing into some sort of wind instrument seemingly deliberately because taking a quick phone call. So I hung up the guitar and just walked out.
But the guy who welcomed me when I walked in seemed nice.
15. Tabla Lessons
Address: 5711 W 92nd Ave APT 48, Westminster, CO 80031 , Shaw Heights , Colorado , United States
I never played Tabla before. Out of curiosity, searched and found Nabin ji. It has been few months. Nabin ji is a professional tabla guru. I am thoroughly enjoying the experience and would highly recommend to Tabla enthusiasts.
Nabin is an excellent Tabla teacher, he teaches not only what to but also how to do it with emphasis on technique. Teaches with great patience.
I learned so much in just one month and can’t wait to learn more!
16. Best Buy
Address: 9369 Sheridan Boulevard, Westminster, CO 80031 , Shaw Heights , Colorado , United States
Went to return something I bought from best buy , friendly staff help me with the return. I was in and out less than 10 ten minutes
Great service and help in getting a Go Pro 9. I had no idea what I’d need to support the camera for what I intend to use it for but the electronics assistant asked a few key questions and then pointed out exactly what I’d need to work it all successfully right out of the boxes!
Lo mejor para comprar cosas electronicas
It was cold and dark but the electronics were hot good service too
Good selection but poor service. Associates didn’t know how to activate a phone
Nice clean organized found everything i need without a hassle
I do not shop at this store mainly because of the way they try to push you into purchasing service contracts on their merchandise they are relentless in this area and l do not like that.
Bought some beats pro wireless headphones. After less than 2 months I tried to exchange them with receipt after having connectivity issues. They wiuldn’t return them and just told me to go to an Apple store since Apple owns Beats now. Apple store wouldn’t take me in said I needed to make an appointment. Waste of time and money for expensive headphones that don’t work properly. Last time I will shop at best buy!
Wow zero customer service. Went to purchase a fitbit. The shelf was empty but they had 30 in the back. Asked the fat security guy bybthe door to have someone get me one. He told me to wait and someone will help me. He never called anyone. He just sat there and talked tobhis friend. Waited 15 minutes. Nobody came. Finally found one next to other fitness bands in the wrong place. I almost didnt buy it out of spite. I will never walk foot into this store again. And that fat “security” guard at the door should be fired for not helping and wasting company money talking to his buddy when he is suppposed to be working. Will never shell out a single dime to best buy again.
17. Olde Town Pickin’ Parlor
Address: 7515 Grandview Ave, Arvada, CO 80002 , Shaw Heights , Colorado , United States
Great supply of mandolins and guitars in a locally owned shop. I’ve used their luthiers a few times – great work.
Best acoustic shop in town! If you want high quality, this is the place for you.
The shop is beautiful!
Knowledgeable owner.
This is the only guitar shop in town that carries my Elixer light medium strings. I always seem to learn something when I go in there.
Really overpriced and dry instruments. Very friendly though.
First…the prices are way too high! The proprietor is a pompous chap to say the least. I walked into The Old Pickin’ Parlor today with $1500 in my pocket in hopes of finding a decent guitar. The gentleman who was running the store looked me up and down (sized me up) and went back to talking to the postman who had stopped to deliver the mail. Not a hello or howdy. I just moved here from Portland, Oregon and found that to be out of character from the friendliness I have found in the Denver area. I then started to look at some of the guitars. The store has some nice Martins, Collings, What looked to be Rhode Island Guilds behind the counter, etc.. I also noticed that the prices were inflated. I have been a collector/player since the 70’s and Have bought guitars from coast to coast. I know the going rate, and these were boutique prices. The real kicker was the guy behind the counter. After his initial glance, he never said another word to me. He made/answered a couple of calls of a personal nature in which he talked about playing an open mic the previous night. He called the sound man at this venue a 25 year old idiot with a tin ear, but despite that, he and his partner “wowed” the crowd anyway. His tone was abrasive and I thought it was so unprofessional to speak like that in front of a (now not so likely) paying customer. I decided to exit the store, and upon doing so looked over my shoulder. The guy was glaring at me! I had to laugh…wow! He did me the best favor possible, because I went to another acoustic specialty store in town and found a Guild NT-72! They only made 200 of these in 1994 (before Fender bought them) and it is unbelievable. Even more unbelievable is that I paid only $1700 for it. It was only $100 more than one of the stock J-50 Guild’s that this guy had at the Old Pickin’ Parlor. Look up the NT-72…you will see what a gem it is. Thanks brother! You may have wowed the crowd at the Open Mic, but you left this audience member(customer) unimpressed and slightly offended.
NOTE: There are other places that will treat you like an old friend in Denver…Try them first:)
I attempted to get my daughters violin finger positions taped prior to her concert tomorrow and the tech person on staff was not able to help but did suggest a couple other shops.
18. Wedgles Music & Loan
Address: 1122 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203 , Shaw Heights , Colorado , United States
Great choice of guitars and many instruments in general.
Neat music shop…went in to buy an orchestra instrument for my beginner child. The guys there were very helpful and gave me a deal on a pre-owned instrument. It’s in the heart of Denver, conveniently located on Broadway. They tuned it up for me and I was on my way. This place is the best kept secret in musical instruments.
I have been to the shop several times to buy instruments, have them set up, and to pick up strings and cables etc. Everytime I go in, regardless of reason, I am treated well and leave with exactly what I want. The instruments are always in great shape, the staff that is knowledgeable and helpful, and the inventory diverse and fascinating. I definitely intend to continue to frequent the store.
Full of rare/vintage/collector’s items, but expensive. And definitely not the place to haggle. More of a novelty type place if you’re a casual musician instead of a collector.
Great little wheeln’ dealn’ music store. Have picked up some great used drum mics here. Not the greatest hours though, they close right at 5 everyday and closed on Sundays
This is the local pawn shop for your instrumental needs. Great music items
A horrifying outfit. I would rather go to a Guitar Center when the zombie apocalypse was at its peak then ever return to this pawn shop. Things to keep in mind their prices are outrageous and they will continuously speak about giving you a good deal and when you get to the register there will be no good deal. They pay usually only a quarter of what the instrument is worth. This is obscene even for pawn shops. They won’t tell you about their return policy and potentially in violation of state law don’t have any publicly listed return policies and they will not return anything even even if it’s broken even if it was junk they will not issue it they will make you sell back the thing that you bought for half of what you paid even within a 12-hour period period I can’t stress enough how how really how grimy this organization is and it should be avoided and by any you know want to have some sort of remaining integrity
Terrible price quoting done by a rude human being. I went in to price out an instrument and was greeted by two respectful people. The man pricing my instrument didn’t even grant me the respect of looking at me while I tried to negotiate a price. I will NOT be recommending this place for future customers. It takes such little effort to treat someone like a person, nevermind the bogus quote I received.
Awful experience.
Guitars are just broken. Never think about buying anything in this store. Prices are 200% what they should be.
19. CASH 4U PAWN
Address: 9240 Federal Blvd, Denver, CO 80260 , Shaw Heights , Colorado , United States
These guys are great! Always straightforward, no hassles, no B.S. They will work with you and keep it quick and friendly.
They never take your pride when your in need. Loans are low but that’s perfectly Ok I’ve been able to get each loan out every-time. Thank you zem!
I can’t say enough good things about Conner and his team here! I was a little nervous making such a large purchase (over 5K), sight unseen / based on pictures and employees word and from out of state (CA) but was assured if any problems arose they would be taken care of. I made the purchase, Conner and his team loaded the items onto a pallet and shipped them to me. Upon arrival, I was happy to find everything to be as or BETTER then described! Everything worked GREAT and am beyond HAPPY! Thanks again!!!
Do not trust the reviews, they have horrible customer service. They often will provide barely anything for the items you bring in, even high value items.
Based on all of the reviews here related to jewelry, it sounds like this store doesn’t know what they are doing.
I took in some white and gold pieces. The kid kept testing the gold with his scratch test and magnets. I know it is all real, we just came from Gold Rush and didn’t like their pricing or customer service so we came here.
The kid first gave us a figure. When we asked him to check a couple more pieces he decided he was uncomfortable and wasn’t going to buy anything. This kid lost this store some good money because he is not confident in testing gold.
When questioned why he wasn’t going to buy anything he said that he tester was acting up and that he has seen a lot of fake stuff lately. You scratch the gold, pour the chemical and analyze the results. If you don’t understand what you are doing, you are going to miss out on some good sales.
Sorry for your loss!
Idk was going to the restroom someone kicked me out before I touched the handle #rude
20. EZPAWN
Address: 9052 N Federal Blvd, Federal Heights, CO 80260 , Shaw Heights , Colorado , United States
I absolutely love this place I only go here to sell anything if I’m desperate. But when I’m looking for something for a birthday these guys always cute me such a good deal.
The staff is always very helpful. Georgia is always welcoming and just a great person. I do business at this location all the time.
Always get what I need when I pawn anything, all the staff here are super nice always happy to see me . Been coming here for 7 years because of the staff, Georgia will go out of her way to help you out! All the staff here go above and beyond, I went to other ezpawn stores not as friendly.
Been here a few times to buy. One of the cleanest shops I’ve been into and the staff seems super friendly. Generally will wheel and deal on items out for sale.
I pawn stuff here all the time great staff. Wait time is inconvenient. But great customer service and works with you.
Certainly the best stuff and least scary in the area. There are quite a few pawn shops around this one, but this ezpawn is the only one i felt comfortable shopping for a good tv with my daughter in.
The staff was friendly but not obnoxious, and their stuff looked nicely kept up and not desperately hocked garbage.
Not as nice as the other location on west colfax, but still nice enough we found a great tv and a really good price.
Zero Stars,this is why, I brought in my stand up craftsman tool box because I was desperate and as with a lot of people needed money fast! It is a $3000.00 box needed $150.00 for bills. They said I needed more collateral, so I brought in my $200.00 power glow 300 Bluetooth speaker which gave me the rest $$ I needed. When I came to pay my pawn it took 45 min
To bring my tools & speaker up……..here’s the problem , when I arrived home I found someone broke key off on bottom cabinet so I could not open , and my power glow speaker which was only 2 weeks old . Does NOT HOLD CHARGE. When I came in to ask what happend I was told “WE DON’T TOUCH OR MESS WITH YOUR PROPERTY well I know how you can drain a nice expensive Bluetooth speaker so it won’t keep a charge , and as for my tools if I didn’t break key off my own tools then who’s responsible for my loss……. REMEMBER IF I WOULDN’T HAVE PAID ON TIME GUESS WHO GETS MY TOOLS….SO please someone tell me” WHERE IS THE FAIRNESS??? Yes I called their corporate ph and was told “oh we WILL call you back!!!???
AND NO ONE HAS
And yes that’s a minus star
I feel disgusted and discriminated against as a woman after coming here, ladies beware! I brought my 2002 SUV here and just needed a few hundred dollars until payday. I have a good track record with EZ pawn and always redeem my tickets. Anyway the first gentleman I dealt with truly tried to help me, my truck didn’t have this year’s emissions because I relocated from El Paso county where you don’t need them done every year. He called his boss and his boss said no my truck is too old. I’m the second owner and have all the service records. No check engine light , no issues except some cosmetic. Now that a look at the vehicles they have for sale online they are way older and in way worse shape than my truck. I will not be doing business with EZ pawn anymore. I can almost guarantee that if my husband brought it in the owner would have made the loan no problem.
The skinny white guy with the glasses always low balls, but the other clerks always help me out and give me good deals on my items unlike the other guy who just rips people off seems like his favorite words is 10 or 20 bucks when I knoe my stuff is worth way more.
