Matty is knowledgable and always willing to help. This is also a great place to take lessons on your instrument of choice, whether you’re just starting out or already have some experience.
Matty and his staff provide personalized service at good prices. This is a really good local business, doing good things in the community.
Great place for instrument rentals and lessons.
Great service.
Dirty, stuff everywhere, completely disorganized.
3. Jazzmen Music And Gallery
Address: 450 Enfield St, Enfield, CT 06082 , Somers , Connecticut , United States
I love, love, love my new (old) piano!! I highly recommend looking for your new piano at Jazzmen Music and Gallery. Ryan is so nice and accommodating. He really extended himself to make sure that everything necessary was accomplished as far as me getting the piano of my dreams!!! Thank you Ryan!
Ryan was very friendly and an expert in helping us pick out a piano. He was able to restore, service, and deliver our piano for an incredibly affordable price. I would recommend him to anyone. Honest and great guy to work with.
Ryan is amazing! He has an amazing stock of pianos, and is so easy to work with. He is a pure talent and is so knowledgeable about music and art. If you need a piano, need tuning or service for your instrument CALL HIM. He is also just so nice and you’ll be happy you met him.
4. KK’s This n’ That Shop,
Address: 138 Main St, Somers, CT 06071 , Somers , Connecticut , United States
Assessment: ★★★★½
4.7/5 based on 14 evaluations.
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A welcoming, kind shopkeeper with a variety of items. Stop in for tea or oe coffee!
We stopped in to get bait for my son to fish with. He ended up also getting some hooks and few other items. I got a nice cup of coffee and browsed. Picked up some baby clothes from the consignment side for my upcoming grandson. I noticed some great gift ideas while in there , unique variety of items and super customer service. Very quaint little shop. We will be back soon.
The store that’s got soup to nuts, a must see shop
Disgraceful and rude to other vendors.
5. The Music Shop
Address: 405 Queen St, Southington, CT 06489 , Somers , Connecticut , United States
These guys helped me get the perfect Christmas gift. The staff was helpful, knowledgeable, and pleasant to work with.
Very nice small music shop. I went to purchase a drum throne and received excellent customer service. I believe the gentleman’s name is Scott? He was very pleasant. I will definitely shop there again.
They don’t normally carry the highest end instruments, but they’re price competitive on all they carry, very helpful, and best of all honest and trustworthy. My son had guitar lessons for years and loved it. Repair work, mods and set ups are top notch.
The cellos were in not in good shape and we had to pay a luthiere to redo repairs that were poorly done when we received the instrument.
Great place but website could be better such as pics of some used equipment. I’m a drummer and would like to see what they have for new and used cymbals,stands,drum kits etc. And prices. I have done business with them and always had a great experience the reason for three stars is the website doesn’t do the music shop justice. All and all great store great people.
6. Spindrift Guitars
Address: 300 State St, New London, CT 06320 , Somers , Connecticut , United States
Got my 86′ sunburst back with honestly the best set up it’s ever had or I think ever could have. Super nice guys, affordable, attention to detail, incredible service. How can you beat that. You can’t. 5 stars all around.
I purchased a pedal through Reverb from SG. Communication was excellent and the item I purchased was a described. They shipped FAST too!! After sending payment, I got a tracking number and received it next day…..just in time to play it over the weekend!!! Thanks guys!!!!
I ordered a vintage amp from Spindrift guitars. The amp unfortunately arrived dead. Spindrift was incredibly professional and helpful in getting the problem dealt with quickly and efficiently. It is now my favorite amp I’ve ever owned. Thank you Spindrift and a very special thank you to Whit. You all have earned a life long fan.
Nice small ma and pa guitar shop
Shop owner very helpful with advice on adjusting the action on my mandolin. It is specifically a guitar shop.
They really know their guitars.
I brought in vintage Gibson Les Paul custom for a Re fret and they completely ruined it there was surface scratches ,chips in the fret board the frets were un even and buzzed. After 4 attempts bringing the guitar back to the store with the problems only half way fixed every time or even new problems I just cut my loses and brought my guitar to a real professional if you want it done right I do not recommend bringing your guitar here for major repairs
7. The Music Shop
Address: 22 Mc Dermott Ave, Torrington, CT 06790 , Somers , Connecticut , United States
They were very friendly and had great prices. This will be my regular music shop from now on!
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Super nice owner. Shared his knowledge about local music scene and programs. I am coming back!!!
8. Stewart’s Music LLC
Address: 171 Main St, Niantic, CT 06357 , Somers , Connecticut , United States
A great local business that always has everything I’m looking for. Would highly recommend.
I arrived when they opened which was on time and prompt. (Also, the only store in the area that opens this early! LIFE SAVER!) The woman there was EXTREMELY knowledgeable on all the equipment in the store. She knew exactly what I needed and when she didn’t have a full 10 pack of reeds, she made one for me. The prices were fair and I had the option of purchasing pre-owned items at a lower rate! She also had a little dog that she let my younger son pet while we were there. As we were leaving, someone was coming to bring in their unused instruments for the buy back program. Polite, fast transaction, educated, and helpful. Parking was directly in front of the building, easy in, easy out. I will be returning here for all my kids instrumental needs!
We have always had a good experience at Stewart’s. We have purchased, rented, and sold instruments through them while my two children took music at school from elementary school through high school. They always told us our options as what was really needed at certain levels of playing, whether purchasing or renting was best. My son also took lessons with one of their teachers and enjoyed his instructor while picking up a new instrument for the summer. They worked with our kids school and pick and delivery was easy as it is done at the schools. Both are musicians and understand all instruments and questions about instruments. Easy going and fair prices buying and selling. When we consigned our last instrument after the kids went off to college I realized that I’m going to miss seeing them. How many businesses can you say that about?
Terrible customer service. Took my flute to get repaired and instead of just simply fixing what needed to be done to it I was told I shouldn’t have bought an off brand flute. This was all I could afford at the time (as a teenager). I am looking to invest in a new one but honestly it is no ones job to criticize the instrument I have. I waited for the repair to be done and called 3 different times on it. The repair person got sick which is understandable. When I called the last time they said it was finished and I asked why they never called me to let me know they said that I said I was going to come in regardless. Which is true. But still does not explain why no one called me. Overall a bad experience. Was treated very poorly and will not be going there again.
Absolutely awful owners were nasty and they charged way too much for a simple repair just go to music and arts its easier and cheaper
Simple advise dont scream at your costumers to get business
9. Creative Music Center
Address: 701 Main St, Monroe, CT 06468 , Somers , Connecticut , United States
The older guy really helped me with my guitar! He was so nice!
My daughter loves her piano lessons at Creative Music Center.
All of the staff, from folks at the register to the instructors to the director of music education, are professional and knowledgeable, with a warm welcome to boot!
Rude. Terrible service. man had no knowlege of his products and prices were too high
Came here with my son they were very rude to my son and not very knowledgeable… wouldn’t come back here again and don’t recommend it.
I just went to this store with my violin wanting the sound post set and to re-hair my bow. When I walked in there were two ladies at the counter. As I opened my case asking the the lady in the white turtle neck with straight brown hair if they re-hair bows? She snapped that they didn’t. The nice girl next to her chimed in as said out loud “She re-hairs bows?” Then the other lady gave a look and said I would need to buy a new one! She then picked up my violin and started to point out things about my only violin that were not good enough for her to re-set my sound post! I then asked “How much to just re-set the sound post?” She refused me service and said “Good Luck!” AVOID THIS PLACE IF YOU CAN! I think I didn’t fit the “type” they prefer to give services to?
10. Music & Arts
Address: 1863 Post Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824 , Somers , Connecticut , United States
As a former employee I felt it to be a very welcoming environment. There were times that it did get busy but we did our best to help every customer that that entered and greeted them as they entered. It’s nice that it was a small store that way it could provide more interaction with customers which lead to some very fun conversation.
In general, I was very impressed with the quality of service that I received from this institution. I want to highlight the two instructors that I worked with, Marcus- piano instructor and Paul- guitar instructor. Thank you so much!
All you need when it comes to musical instruments.
Sales staff were not super knowledgable. We rented our son’s violin for school through them and billing was always an issue even though it was on monthly automatic payment. Glad the saga is over.
The prices are ok. The parking can be tough. The person working the desk was dismissive of my questions. Not a lot of inventory on display. They seem more about instruction.
Thank you for your service n attention. Thank guys for helping me to pick the perfect gift for my wife.
Very bad and rude customer service, hang up my phone.
WARNING! WARNING TO PARENTS!! DO NOT USE THIS SHOP FOR RENTALS! Should be ZERO stars.
We rented from here for 5 years, the first 4 went off without a hitch. This year has been an absolute nightmare. We rented two instruments, same address, same name, same payment. ONE account had no issues, the other the local store put in the wrong address (where we have never lived). Over the last 4 months I have called their headquarters, left messages, emails, etc. trying to get a paper bill MAILED so that I could pay whatever was owed. They were incapable of sending this, and every time I called in could not even find the right account or would tell me everything was fine and they did not know why I was being contacted. When asked why they could not have looked at our other rental account for the correct information they were stunned into silence. Absolute incompetency from the sales staff all the way up to the billing department supervisor who assigned our missing “account” to a collections agency and then gave us the WRONG agency. Save yourself the trouble and stay far, far away from here.
Don’t rent any instrument from this place. People are very rude. Calling customer service takes forever to get someone on the phone. Unfriendly customer service, supervisors don’t want to talk to customers. Find another place to rent instruments for your children.
