Talbotton: Overview of the top 12 music shops

Excellent service and best price in Columbus. One of the phone numbers on the website doesn’t work. You have to use the cell. Accommodating, honest, and helpful. Very pleased with his work.

Great service!

Good luck trying to reach this guy or getting him to return your calls

Never returns calls

Very friendly ,professional , and they have amazing instructors!

Music Masters is our go to place in Warner Robins for all our music needs. From cable ends, to boutique guitars and anything in between. Nice, experienced people who give lessons. Shop local and support our small businesses!

I enjoyed my first visit to Music Masters and will be going back. Staff was great and they had what I was looking for. The prices were the same as most big internet stores so why not support our local businesses. Overall very happy with the experience.

Great deals, great service. It’s always nice to have a local, hometown music store for that personal touch. Lessons are also available. Wish there was a bigger selection there, though–go buy some stuff there so they can afford more space! 🙂

Went in to get some supplies for taking care of a trumpet. They didnt have a huge variety but they did gave neat grab and go packs. They did, however, have a huge selection of guitars, ukuleles and other strings as well as a few brass and woodwinds.

Nice music shop. We are pleased with a kid friendly guitar lessons taught by Mr. Mike.

Update:Feb 2022. Still attending lessons and my child has taken a liking to guitar. His finger placement has gotten better and knowing the proper strings for several chords.

Too expensive

Courteous & friendly but I wouldn’t take an amp there for repair. I was told that I’d get a call with the diagnosis. 2 weeks later I called only to be told they haven’t been able to find anyone willing to work on it. It clearly states on their website that they repair both tube & solid state amplifiers? I’m a little preplexed..

Over priced

I couldn’t be happier with my experience with Canton. Brennan is extremely knowledgeable and helpful in finding me what I needed. He’s very low pressure and easy to work with. You can tell he takes pride in finding solutions to each persons needs. I’ll be back soon!

Brennan is a phenomenal owner and guitar tech. He set my Les Paul up and it plays better than a new guitar off the hook.

Great music shop! Excellent selection and super knowledgeable staff. Brought in a guitar that needed some love and they knocked it out of the park. Highly recommend this business.

Great staff. Very friendly. Prices were great!

Customer service said it all as I walked out and heard the guy comment to another store employee that people who can’t play will blame the guitar. If my playing was the problem, he could have been the solution in helping me figure that out instead of being snide, patronizing and rude, or at least he could have waited until I was gone. Needless to say, this long time customer will go elsewhere in the future. UPDATE: I went to Guitar Center in Kennesaw where my son and I were listened to and treated respectfully. We were thoroughly assisted with patience and great advice; bought a new guitar and perfect traveling case. Will definitely continue to shop there even though it’s a bit of a drive.

Owner (I assume (wears glasses)) is arrogant and unfriendly. When purchasing strings, I asked what guage and web he recommended for my purposes. He looked at me and answered as if I was an idiot for asking in the first place. Strings were $5 more than I can get them online, so next time I will wait on them to come in the mail instead of supporting a local business. $17 for elixirs. Unfortunate.

Guitar work not up to standard……

I will shop there, but they will not work on my guitars anymore, very friendly staff and knowledgeable, and can do basics, but anything beyond that is out of their ability, I had my guitar worked on twice and both times they failed in regards to proper setup and intonation of the bridge etc, I had my guitar tech in Florida spend several hours fixing what they didn’t properly and found that a neck screw was broken, and the intonation had never been be addressed as well as the appropriate setup of a tremolo on a middle of the road guitar not 5k but not $500 either, so I like them but they are not suited to take on intricate bridge work and setups of electric guitars and bridges in regards to proper technique and application.It’s cost me several hundred to get something done three times which should have taken only once to do. Again, it is a great place and kudos to them for their pleasantries and knowledge but just not cut out for the discriminate player and needs of particular equipment of guitars.

Wonderful family run music store. Friendly and knowledgeable staff.

A class act!

I recently brought in a valuable old trumpet for repairs, and the workmanship was impeccable. I’m a semi-pro player, so details matter, and Jackson’s delivered. Further, the personal attentiveness and old-fashioned “family-run business” feeling — so difficult to find nowadays — is what sets Jackson’s apart from all the rest.

i had an issue about paying extra for financing but the owner Jo called me to make it right. just ask about the interest free financing before purchasing. staff is friendly but financing was a different story

Staff is nice, small selection tho. Mostly beginner instruments and school band instruments.

Employees know there job but convenience is a -1

Great shop for band instruments as well as player instruments.
Good selection of accessories

this store is downright awful. the service is terrible and they try to pull every penny out of your pockets. small fixes can be charge to up to $200 and is downright despicable.

Rude! Told them I was just looking around at the moment and was laughed at…. shameful behavior by talentless jokes!

I had been going in the store for music lessons for boys and now it is on the way home from work.. I paid almost $60 for a microphone and a piece that connects it to the speaker. I like support mom and pop shops. The microphone did not work. When I tried to switch it with the same sales person I bought it from 3days before. He remember me and accuse me of damaging it and lying about it. He pulled it up and it did not work. Instead of apologizing he said if the new one broke I could not bring it back. I told he did not need to worry because I would not be back to that store. I went to speak to the owner and she ask him to apologize which he could not do and I told her it was okay and not necessary because I would not be back. I guess next time I will order it off online and pay 1/3 the price and not get such horrible treatment.

I have had several guitars repaired here and the workmanship was excellent. This is now the only local music store I will support with my business. A very friendly group of people that are knowledgeable and helpful.

Having done a lot of research into buying my 1st electric guitar, a friend highly recommended Town Center Music. Having visited, I can see why they were so highly recommended. A family owned business, managed by and staffed with skilled, friendly, helpful and knowledgeable people, I was never rushed and given the opportunity to play any guitar I wanted. I did not go there to buy a guitar yet, but Justin was so helpful and mentioned their layaway plan, I put down my deposit. I asked for an amp recommendation and after Justin asked enough questions of me and how I planned to use this new instrument (Gretsch, Les Paul body style), he recommended an amp that is small but powerful and perfect for my needs. I could not be happier and can now highly recommend Town Center Music to anyone that cares about customer service, small local business and quality products.

Coolest music store around!! Dozens and dozens of the latest and greatest effects pedals and noise makers. Super friendly staff that really knows their stuff. Just had my guitar worked on by their tech and I couldn’t be happier with his work! TCM is THE place to go for all local musicians.

Much better store I not been here in a while the past manager was not a music guy or a manger known as a air head I will be back

Taught my kids to play guitar

Good

Took down my review. Owner ultimately seemed to care about his customers. Too bad everything is so politically incorrect. Anyone still remember Archie Bunker?
But to clarify what idiot would try to exchange something opened, like a reed.
Amazon prime still winnnning.

Not where u want to shop you find poorly trained staff and not music people I shopped here off and on for years . just not good pepole

Store is dirty poor selection not real big

My daughter Cass had her first drum lesson here since we moved from CT. She really seemed to enjoy things, and the lessons were right in line with her skill level and musical interests. Can’t wait for my son Gary to start his electric bass lessons up again next week.

Amazing customer service!

Excellent place, amazing owner.

Very friendly staff and they will buy your instruments at a fair price.

They were very nice.

Very friendly.

I tried to buy ernie ball regular slinkys and they put ernie ball super slinkys in my bag while I wasn’t paying attention. Poor selection of accessorys.

I brought my son for one month of guitar lessons. There was a break down in their process and we never received a calendar. For this I was called a liar and unethical because I told them we weren’t coming back. The owner says everyone knows this is how they do it but obviously we didn’t know. He said I was stealing money out of the instructor’s pocket. However we paid for all lessons given. The owner couldn’t acknowledge there was the possibility of a mistake (we didn’t get a calendar explaining the policies or the schedule of lessons and the girl that took my money explained it as a month to month payment system) and demanded we pay.

If he had chosen to say That there was a possibility of a mistake and asked if we could meet in the middle without calling my integrity into question then I would have probably paid. We are talking $100 but the fact that he went straight to the only reasonable explanation was that I was lying isn’t acceptable.

We went in the month of September for a total of 3 lessons. I paid for the entire month, half off because we bought a guitar. We didn’t go to a lesson last Monday (first Monday in October or today) not today. I got a text from the instructor asking if we were coming back. I told him we were not. The instructor apologized for how the owner handled the situation and told me that we didn’t owe him anything.

We will not do business here again.

Bought a guitar from them. Took it home only to notice that a string’s intonantion was off and the neck was too straight. Took it back for them to fix it only to find that they didn’t fix it at all. Took it back a second time and asked them to fix the intonation only for them to, once again, not intonate it but merely tried to tune it. Ended up having to intonate it myself.

What does it say about a guitar store that can’t even intonate a guitar properly given two opportunities?

Awesome service, amazing owner. Definitely worth checking out!

I’ve been to jaws for guitar repair and custom work to be done at least 3 times in the past year. I’m driving 30 miles to get there because the service is worth it. Jim has a great can-do attitude about everything and completes the work so fast. I started going to jaws guitars because my local shops were letting me down regularly with poor work and VERY SLOW service. I will keep going to Jaws as long as I’m in the area and can make the drive. Keep up the great work!

Really friendly and knowledgeable staff!

Cool store no other music stores in Canton owner is cool

Great sound equipment at reasonable prices compared to the big box music stores. The gentleman, who I assumed was the owner, was very knowledgeable about everything musical.

support your local music stores. professional repairs and great service. These guys give fair prices on trade-ins as well.

I needed a setup for my Gibson Les Paul and decided to give Jaws a shot because of their overwhelmingly positive reviews. I dropped of my guitar and told the luthier that I was experiencing a lot of fret buzz. The turn around time was very quick and I was able to pick it up the next day. I was told that there would still be some buzz based on my attack, which seemed like a cop out. I asked if there were any high frets and I was assured that there were none. I took the guitar home and played it to find that I was still experiencing buzzing even when strummed lightly. I pulled out the fret rocker to find that several of my frets were high despite what the shop told me. Overall, this was a waste of time and money and I’m very disappointed with the level of service.

Friendly staff, wide selection, great prices. Nothing to complain about.

Love this place! Small hometown feel with lots of resources and musical options

These folks are terrific. They helped us out at the local high school with great advice and no pressure. They even offered to come to the school to help us with no strings attached. We’re lucky to have them in our community.

I brought my daughters here, ones in high school and has been playing for a while and one is going into middle school and just beginning. While I would give the guys more stars they were amazing!! They had great service and went the extra mile to make sure my daughters were comfortable especially my new band student who is playing sax!!
The reason why I gave the music store 3 stars was because of the woman who works there. She comes off as pushy, bossy and gets really into peoples private business.. She had me really mad the day I went there.. I feel for the men who work there.

Quick. Super helpful. Plenty of staff.

Great staff- very friendly. Good selection of acoustic guitar strings. I have worked with Grayson several times for string replacement, set-up, fret cleaning and conditioning for an old Ovation Balladeer, and she sounds and plays better than ever!

Had to make a quick stop to grab a few things. I know it was closing time. I was trying to make it quick. When they started harassing my husband reminding him when they close he left and we took our business somewhere else. Customers want to feel welcomed, not reminded how unfortunate you are to have to lock the door right at 5:00.

The customer service is awful I definitely won’t be back there every again

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Amazing customer service , shoutout to Tony. Met him today and when I brought some items to the store , he was very helpful.

Tony and his partner Rad is awesome to work with! I’m glad I met them both! I will continue to buy from these guys! Keep up the great work guys! Highly recommended

Cool people

Amazing service and prices. Gotta love them

Well to be honestly when it comes to finding the right equipment tools that you need to establish a successful business. Especially when it comes to music everything has to be super fine to use things are quite the buzz to get typically only for practice material only. Truthfully you should always get anything that’s Musical and days so in tune with your heart has to be brand new. So I went to this particular place to buy Saturday items that I might need to spruce up my canvases so I can make that Perfect Pitch sound wasn’t too disappointed and wasn’t too excited either but you never know what you get until you open the book. This place has a lot of items that I haven’t seen on the market such as basis old Phantom keyboard classic stuff that started off hot and probably early 90s onto to the mid-2000s I say 2008. So if you see vintage music places like that they have Studio tired and still a Quick Med in a might have that particular our scent and will you get ashlie record music these places are typically the hotbed for local rappers local musicians things of that nature is like a vintage bookstore. You might not find what you’re looking for but you might find the past from which you once was looking for. So you can stop by this place give it a try and there’s also store next door so we can get hungry or thirsty or you want to gamble just a tad you can go up there and check out this place you might find what you looking for.

Great place if you want to buy equipment. Not so much if you want to sell your items . I’ve called the owner about some things I wanted to sell to this location, each time the owner lied and said he wasn’t there or he would call back tomorrow. Very unprofessional if you ask me , if you don’t want to do something just say it .. don’t lie to a customer.

These people cap Smh. Sold me a 100 mic.
In I end up looking it up smh this same mic is 22.dollars on Amazon. I Took it back right away

Alllllll Cap Over there look up the merchandise prices before u bye
I learn my lesson

Never open, when I visit

UPDATE:
I have visited 4 times, during business hours, only to find a sign saying there are closed for a break.

Excellent customer service. Super helpful and sweet owners!

Great music store and great for the community! Friendly staff and always willing to help.

Best place to jam, talk shop, talk music, get honest deals on your used equipment, meet musicians, become am intergalactic space diva, become the best musician inside yourself, get great lessons with great teachers in an awesome atmosphere and do your BEST ELVIS OR DOLLY OR MUSICAL GENIUS IMPERSONATION! Best music store because the people make the place! All heart, all music, all encouraging to anyone who loves music like they do! GO HERE! YOU WILL BECOME MORE EPIC EVERY VISIT! #trueadventuresinmusicstorevisits

We acquired an electric guitar and amp from a neighbor and David got us up and running for almost nothing in less than 12 hours. Great customer service! Thank you.

I had a bad experience getting my guitar setup and felt like I had been scammed. I was immediately contacted and offered complete compensation by the owner herself. Wonderful customer service. When I went in to get my compensation I also made a new friend. Thanks so much, Ponier!

We had our two kids take guitar lessons for over a year. We made our kids attend to stimulate their overall learning capability , Since one of us travels for a living we at times canceled a session ( in advance ) and always paid fully for canceled lessons , no questions asked.
Our kids are straight A students, justifying for us to pay for lessons “wasted “ as no show.
However we decided to end guitar lessons and asked the owner to discontinue charging us over and over again. The manager / owner having bad organization and people skills ignored and intimidated my wife after we finally filed a claim with our credit card company.
Further more he stated that he would only give us OUR money if we delete a bad review. WE DID NOT WRITE A BAD REVIEW AT THAT TIME.
I inquired and asked for a call back on multiple more occasions but no response.
Our music instructor was great but left him for a probable reason. So if you are a common sense kind of a person do not expect much in return in that area. 200 dollars “taken”.

A few decent music teachers but the management needs improvement.
The owner charged me for items I didn’t purchase and kept my credit card on file without my permission. She said they refunded me but I never received a refund. I had to call my bank to have the charges reversed.