Friendly & helpful staff. Been going thwre for years! Love their peanuts!
Great selection for a small store and helpful people. Perfect place to quickly get what you need
Great store, friendly staff and reasonable prices.
The employees are very nice can’t helpful.Have most anything you would need
Great prices sometimes even cheaper than the big store’s.
Good plants very friendly staff
Julians hardware is a great place good people
They made me feel unwelcome. I felt like they wanted to get me out. As soon as possible I don’t know why. But today’s visit was different from others. All the other times I’ve been there. Everybody was helpful kind and informative. But I will try them again.
Didn’t have what I needed
3. Art’s Music Shop, Inc
Address: 4647 US-280, Birmingham, AL 35242 , Sylvan Springs , Alabama , United States
I have bought two saxophones here. And most recently some accessories. There’s usually someone here that is knowledgeable about the things I need and the questions I have. It has always been a a good experience for me.
Repair shop – especially the woodwind tech, Brian, since I’m a sax player – are fantastic. Very knowledgeable about the workings of the instrument and willing to work with you on modifications. I’ve taken several saxophones for full overhauls and they are lightyears better than before. Even when I move I will try and get work done here if I can.
Art’s is a lovely music store with a huge selection, and everything they had in stock was very high quality! Jay, Taylor, and Stan were very helpful and very hospitable; the atmosphere was friendly and welcoming!
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Always have a good experience at Arts. They work well with the school programs and if they don’t have what we need they are sure to find it
changed to 4 stars because service isn’t as good as it used to be. It is now only ok. Was also very expensive.
Stay away. They are way overpriced.
I brought in something for them to look at in January and it’s been 3 and a 1/2 months and they haven’t called back. I’ve called 5 or 6 times and the manager has been on vacation every single one of those times. They stole my instrument. DO NOT GO HERE
I laid way electric drum set I paid it off in 3 months when I came to pick up my drum set they gave me the display set on the floor they didn’t even bother to clean it and and dumped everything in the box and hand it to me, when I got home I was very disappointed so I called them and they said this is what you purchased. After long talk to their manager they decided to give us a new one. And send me a card for customer satisfaction to know how they treated me. If you’re planning to Layaway anything make sure to tell them I wanted to be a brand new never used and when you buy it open it in the store to make sure you get what you pay for.
4. Homewood Musical Instrument Co
Address: 1712 28th Ave S, Homewood, AL 35209 , Sylvan Springs , Alabama , United States
After taking one of my guitars to ANOTHER music store for a relatively small problem with the nut, their repair made my guitar unplayable. I wasn’t about to take it back to the same place to be fixed, so it sat unloved in its case for almost 2 years.
While this guitar would not be considered a high-end guitar, it’s a very nice Takamine, with considerable sentimental value.
I took it to Homewood Music. After I explained what happened to the guitar, I was asked if I took it a certain music store, and man, it was the one I had gone to first.
I left it in the care of Jason Burns to repair the atrocities. This involved making a new nut, repairing the damage binding at and headstock at the nut, new strings, and overall setup.
While working on it, Jason noticed some other problems with the bridge saddle that he went ahead and corrected with new hand carved bone saddle. He didn’t charge for the additional work because it wasn’t evident and discussed prior. The craftsman in him just wasn’t going to let that guitar go unless it was right.
I can’t say enough good things about Jason Burns and Homewood Music. The workshop is the majority of the space and yes there are very nice inventory of stringed instruments for sale and trade.
I would say it’s a luthier shop that also sells stringed instruments, rather than a music store that sells instruments and happens to do repairs.
They treated me, a hack amateur, and my guitar as if I were a professional musician with top end equipment.
Go to Homewood Music!
Bob and Jason having been helping Homewood & Birmingham with musical instruments for so long ! Great place to buy and learn something new
My favorite store in alabama
Good product, Good service.
Friendly atmosphere and lots of instruments.
I’ve never dealt with someone so rude over the phone. The owner tried to guilt me with sarcasm and acted like victim when I questioned a price. Full story: I asked to order a cello string. All was going well (owner answered questions about speed of shipping and availability of the string), but then he quoted a price ($81) that was far above what other shops charge. I said respectfully that “I’ve purchased the string for $45 at other walk-in shops” and he became sarcastic and argumentative with me, claiming he was “holding my hand” through the process, and said “Well, I have to pay $35 for this string so what do YOU think is fair for ME to make? $15? What is 35 + 15, huh? Ohhh, maybe $50 is more than you can afford?” A simple, “well this is my price” would have been fine as a response from him, but I felt disrespected so I hung up and decided I’m never going to spend a dime Homewood Musical Instrument Co. I advise everyone else to steer clear of this shop and the guy who owns it.
5. SavaGeENTLo
Address: 2919 Highwood Ct, Hueytown, AL 35023 , Sylvan Springs , Alabama , United States
Great experience at Bailey Brothers Music. Highly recommended.
Very helpful staff. My two kids want to start playing guitar and violin. The salesperson was patient in helping the kids and was not condescending at all. He was patient and even helped my left handed child decide if she needed a right or left handed guitar. Turns out that even though she is very left handed the right handed guitar felt better. Also their stick was very impressive. Lots and lots of stuff everywhere.
I needed to buy instruments for my Middle School kids. They were very upfront with their prices and seemed to have the best deals.
Usually get good service, but I took my guitar nut to be repaired after my guitar took a spill. I let them know the guitar had fallen and hoped they would fix. The nut was replaced poorly but the guitar had a buzz. Took it back 2 more times. The last visit, the person in charge of the repair (2 weeks later)said I had heavy fingers and raised the stings to a height that made the guitar unplayable. I took to another repair shop and they repaired the nut replaced by Bailey Brothers found a couple of uneven frets repaired the frets adjusted the neck and had to re-setup the guitar from the disaster repair at Bailey Brothers. If in need of repairs I will never return to this store.
Great customer service. Great selection. However, I was NOT thrilled to see their logo custom printed onto the snare head I bought. Would have received 5 stars if not for that. Going to remove it with some acetone.
I explained to them thoroughly what I needed and they sold me the opposite! It all about sells and f**k the customers needs! Stay away from the southside location!
Recently brought a used instrument to these guys to be cleaned and conditioned. They charged $230 and I’m not really sure what they did beyond $40 worth of repairing. I even priced the individual parts myself and they cost a total of $23. The instrument was very dirty and they didn’t even do a good or complete job of wiping it down. We didn’t get any paperwork explicitly stating what they were going to do so we can’t really argue the point. The inside of the instrument wasn’t even touched during cleaning because there is obvious dust and grime that was there when we gave it to these guys.
We also bought a mouthpiece for the instrument, I previously priced it at $10 online and it was $35 at this place. An outrageous markup.
All of this was after agreeing to a monthly payment for an instrument only to be informed the day before it was needed that they didn’t have any in stock so we had to scramble to find a different option. Because of this, they also didn’t send us a cleaning kit for the instrument that had been fully paid for.
I will be looking for another place for any other instrument needs.
No stars really. Not a very good merchant. Let someone use my credit card number without the card! Be careful!
