Ive used Lakes Recording many times for voiceover work and they have always delivered such a great finished product! Definitely check them out!
Lakes Recording has it all! Knowledgeable, professional engineers and producers will take your song to the next level. Come in with your song ready to track, or bare bones and they will help you orchestrate and arrange it like the sounds you hear in your head! They can also master your songs to tape, for that vintage, vibey feel found on all your favorite records. The studio is super comfy with tons of gear, and if that’s not enough, they’ve got a super cute doggo too!
Super professional lads. Made me feel super comfortable singing and playing my guitar. Gave incredible feedback and really supported my vision for my song. Will use them again and would recommend them to anyone!!
2. The Repair Shop at The Lesson Company
Address: 5268 Village Mkt, Wesley Chapel, FL 33544 , Wesley Chapel , Florida , United States
They were busy, but it WAS a Saturday, so it’s ti be expected.
I had to wait in line for quite a while for the Geek Squad. However, once it was my turn, Byron was very friendly & helpful.
It’s cool,
Shannon of Samsung super especial
Went in looking for a couple of things, able to find one item on my list. Needed assistance but there was only 1 person working in computers and 4 people waiting to be helped. I left. Will order online.
Extremely poor customer service !
I walked passed multi salespeople and no one offered to help me. Once I found my item and was head to the front of the store to checkout, then I was asked by one salesperson did it need help. Too little too late.
Didn’t have anything I was looking for. Short staffed, customer service was not good
4. Tampa Fine Arts Academy
Address: 2148 Ashley Oaks Cir, Wesley Chapel, FL 33544 , Wesley Chapel , Florida , United States
My daughter loves her piano lessons and loves her teacher Ms. Sophia
We have 2 kids here. They LOVE music, and we’re very happy that they love their teachers. Everyone is friendly, helpful and very professional. Teachers are knowledgeable, supportive and will challenge their students (very important to us). We are especially happy that our kids still have their classes through this COVID-19 madness! They look to their Thursday lessons every week! Would highly recommend this place!!!
Nice and talented teachers. $110 a month plus extra fees like $40 cancellation fee and registration start up fees . Must Autopay but if you cancel after mid month Larry still charges your account for whole extra month so -2 stars. I believe this is a fair rating.
My daughter loves her guitar lessons. Friendly and encouraging atmosphere!
Great experience, friendly and communication is good.
5. Walmart Supercenter
Address: 28500 FL-54, Wesley Chapel, FL 33543 , Wesley Chapel , Florida , United States
Friendly staff and helpful polite when communicating and knowledgeable of location of items requiring about.
Thanks to the staff
You get good help nice guy
Nice newer location. Higher volume of customers, but it runs relatively smooth considering the higher volume.
Well stocked, clean, average prices.
Even with store regulations and county regulations, nearly half the employees I saw were not wearing masks properly and some not at all. Nor were they telling the customers with masks off that would walk right past them to wear theirs.
The clientele in there makes me crazy
Recently I have been using the pick-up and delivery options. My delivery orders randomly don’t show up, and when I call for updates, nobody answers, ao I call their 800 number, and they don’t have any answers. The tracking jist days “delayed” with no other answers or updates. The 800 number just tells me to cancel and reorder, which is unfair to make me do… Also, whether I go with pick-up, or delivery, I can almost always plan on item’s that I order being out of stock, or being substituted usually for an item not even close to comparable. A couple of items out of stock is no big deal, but my most recent grocery order had half of my groceries marked unavailable. Around the holidays, it seems to be normal for several items I order to be canceled. To make matters worse, my deliveries have been delivered early, so it’s before I’m home from work and they just take my order back to the store, or delayed several hours, even when into the next day!! Not only do my orders get delayed, they get delayed with awful substitutions and several unavailable items!!!! Who is in charge of the inventoryat this store??? Who is in charge or the app accuracy??? Why is this walmart ALWAYS out of stock of SO MANY products???!!!! I’ve had them cancel my milk!!! How do you run out of milk??? You’re better off just going in and dealing with those long line. I still notice many shelves out of stock when I go in, and the store is now rearranged so I can’t ever find anything, which is why I go with pick-up and delivery. Also, don’t bother calling the store, especially the pick-up line. They never answer.
6. Happy Tunes Music & Hobbies
Address: 24028 FL-54, Lutz, FL 33559 , Wesley Chapel , Florida , United States
Had a great experience here the owners are cool and super knowledgeable about their products.
I knew I was going to be traveling to Tampa last week so I packed my grandmother’s old accordion. I had already taken it to several music shops here in Kansas City. Everyone said it was beyond repair. I stopped in at Happy Tunes as a last resort. Marsha took a look at it and suggested I leave it for her to work on while I was on vacation. I stopped back on the way home to find my instrument not only repaired, but cleaned and looking like new. The price was reasonable and quite manageable. Now I am back in Kansas City. My grandmother is delighted and relearning how to play the instrument that she loved in her youth. Can’t wait for the next trip to Florida, I am gathering up long abandoned instruments and plan to return them to their owners cleaned and repairs. I am sure the owners will be delighted to return to the passion of years gone by.
I want to rock….
Over priced but nice people
Nice convenient family owned business with a good variety
Very awful would not recommend!
During piano classes, instructor was falling a sleep and did fall asleep several times. When she came out she told us that the student was doing horrible and it took a long time because of the student. But really it was because the instructor kept falling asleep. We chose Happy Tunes because we had three people to enroll and they could get them all in on the same day at the same time. But after only two lessons they tried to change one student to Thursdays and the other two to Wednesdays.
We did get a refund, but after much fighting. Don’t go here!
Gave them business for over ten years and they continued to disappoint me. Repairs were never done on time, the staff was exceedingly rude on the phone every time I called even though they know who I am and usually it was just to ask ‘you said this repair would be done in three days and it’s been two weeks…is it done?’ ‘NO WE SAID WE’D CALL YOU’. That’s not how you talk to a customer, ESPECIALLY when you write ASAP on a ticket and then leave it in the exact place for weeks on end. Go to Sam Ash or guitar World.
We have been talking my boys to happy tunes music for about four months now. I work nights so I couldn’t go to most of the lessons but the couple times I would get to go with I would leave saying I really don’t like the way Marsha is with my 6 year old. I felt she was harsh with him but my husband said she was fine. Well this past week during a piano lesson my 6 year old put his head on the piano and she didn’t like it so she pulled him up by his hair. We will never take our children back to happy tunes music. I just wonder what she could have done while my husband was checking on my oldest. Keep your children safe. Don’t go there ever.
I wish I could have given less then 1 star.
7. The Lesson Company
Address: 5268 Village Mkt, Wesley Chapel, FL 33544 , Wesley Chapel , Florida , United States
Excellent place for all sorts of lessons…family owned and operated!
An great place to learn to master your instrument. Friendly staff an the best guitar instructor. What ever your needs are they will assist. Instruments, amplifiers, accessories, and instructors. Thanks to the Morgans and Clay Carroll for all they have done.
I have tried to give this place few opportunities as my children are very happy and with Tim the Jiu Jitsu Coach…
But unfortunately I am done with this Place…
I signed my daughter for dance classes mid November last year but they can’t provide the service they offered… Classes got postponed the entire December because they could not keep the instructor…
I paid for 3 months in advance for services both dance and jiu jitsu and they have charged my accounts once again over 600 dollars without any authorizations.
If you want to dearly pay for services you don’t receive bring your child to this place… Horrible experience… I am truly sorry for the teachers they contract as they really do the best they can.
Update:
Thanks for contacting back.
As per our conversation all we intend at this point is to receive a refund for all services that where never rendered.
As soon as I receive a full refund I will update this review. FD.
It is sad to see that you have expectations when you start in a place and they are not even 40% full, and much more when it comes to your children, and more frustrating when regardless of the places they open without being able to comply with what was initially a Work and service commitment.
I do not recommend it. Disrespect, commitment and compliance
Anyone who’s kids do music or art, avoid the lesson company! The management could not care less about the quality of services provided. They misled, incorrectly bill, are rude and had a substitute “teacher” who said oh just hang out and you’ll learn something when the regular teacher comes back next week. I’m so mad, when I asked to cancel. He said sure, in 4 weeks. I asked to have this be her last since the new class period hadn’t started and he said yes. He then said the money they billed would remain credit with them. I have talked to a bunch of others in the area who have had very similar problem experiences so beware.
Joanna Ximenes of Piano Performance Arts Academy, L.L.C. is an outstanding teacher and pianist. She is a warm and caring teacher, always assessing a student’s needs, but also challenging students to reach goals that will help them grow as musicians. She is an outstanding pianist with a beautiful, natural technique, an understanding of styles, and she is constantly setting goals for herself as a musician–always learning and striving to be a better teacher. Her many years spent in Brazil give her an insight into Brazilian composers that is very unique. She teaches not only beginners with love and care, adults returning to music after many years away from the piano, but also advanced students who want to develop their pianistic technique. She is respected by her colleagues and was chosen Kentucky Teacher of the Year.—-Dr. Vicki King, author of “Playing the Piano Naturally.”
My wife and I both are taking basic piano lessons, started in late October 2021. Our tutor is Aline (pronounced like Eilane but with an “A” at both ends). She is a very adept and patient teacher, I can see that when she’s working with my wife, and when I take the keyboard. She has a nice baby grand to learn on, the sound it makes is really good. The book we’re using is well thought out, teaches you only a step at a time. In only 7 classes, starting from scratch not knowing music, we have made rapid progress. We’re not overwhelmed, we both feel real good taking lessons here.
I’m very delighted with my Piano classes studying with my grate teacher professor Eline. Just in four month, i learning a lot is a good teaching clases, I will recommend to any person to look for: Piano Performance Arts Academy, LLC to any student want to learn Music thank
I’m enjoying the piano again! After almost 20 years, I decided to get back to the piano and Aline is a great teacher! Next stop … Carnegie Hall?! 🙂 🙂
12. Redbox
Address: 5400 Bruce B Downs Blvd, Wesley Chapel, FL 33544 , Wesley Chapel , Florida , United States
Was on tour and my horn broke. Steve took me right in and fixed my horn immediately and sent me on my way! There isn’t a nicer guy on the planet and I HIGHLY Recomended everyone use this wonderful shop!
Need horn repairs or supplies, the best place to go is here, lots information, pleasant owner, kind soul, we need more people like him around.
I bought my flute from then back in 1986 . I have brought it in the them for a complete overall so my daughter can use it for her first instrument.
Very knowledgeable and honest with this assessment of what needs to be done and give options including external solutions
Did not repair two flutes left for over a year. Went back to collect them and they were initially lost .
Finally picked them up after I was notified that they found them.
Will take them to a more organized repair shop and not this hole-in-the-wall.
14. Music World 28
Address: 5268 Village Mkt, Wesley Chapel, FL 33543 , Wesley Chapel , Florida , United States
This place is amazing!!! The staff is so knowledgeable and genuine!
Great prices. Also for kid sized items
Amazing diversity of instruments along with a very helpful staff.
This music store is AMAZING! They have so many instruments to choose from. Definitely would go here again! Great employees!!!
Awesome
UPDATE: PJ and Julia did a great job on my guitars putting on new strings and while I was there I got a look at the new inventory and it looks really nice. VOX, Paul Reed Smith and some Marshalls on the boutique size amp side, lots more of new guitars that look like they would please all levels of playing. Posting this update because it’s so rare when a business hears you and does something about it. I need a little more time to get with that gear (in my next round of purchasing) to get to that 5 star level but, they are working on it! Well done and pleasantly surprised!
ORIGINAL REVIEW: I want to like this store especially for its easy location and for a hobbyist or an absolute beginner I would rate this store as a five. Staff is friendly and they have good starter guitars and nice accessories in strings and straps and such. But, as a performing musician I’ve called probably 3 or 4 times and they just don’t have anything at a pro or semi-pro level in a gigging guitarists needs. Boss effects line isn’t going to cut it with all the reasonably priced and more expensive boutique pedal lines available today. If they upgrade the inventory I would be a happy repeat customer but, I can’t shake the feeling that I’m clearly not their target audience. No shame in that though. If you are starting out, you should check ’em out.
Incompetent, very rude employees. Stay clear of location. Better options in the area.
Bought my guitar there a year ago and love the guitar…but the service at the store over my last visits has gotten progressively worse. Asked to have my guitar looked at because of a buzz in the strings…which is a simple neck adjustment…but couldn’t seem to get it too adjust. Turns out the angle of the adjustment head is slightly off and that’s why I can’t get an Allen wrench in it. I figured this out after I broke a string and had to remove them all. After spending $20 for their tech to turn a screw a quarter of a turn and to get no feedback on the issue, I don’t plan on returning. The assistant manger Nate promised on more than one occasion to get feedback from the guitar tech on the fix, but has yet to deliver on his promise. I cannot recommend this place and that’s sad because it’s close to my home. Anyone have a better store to reccomend?
These people are horrible. I had my daughter taking piano classes in the Brandon location. In October that location shut down with no notice. Since you pay for classes ahead of time, these people owe me $206 for classes my daughter never took since the place closed. Weeks later they sent an email saying that location closed and if you don’t want to take classes at any of their other locations, they will issue a refund in 30 days. I waited the 30 days and nothing happened. I started calling the corporate office and they said they would send me a refund by check. After calling several times, I finally received a check which I deposited but was returned NSF for non sufficient funds. I was making a sacrifice to put my daughter on these piano classes and these people are basically stealing from me. Don’t waste your money. They might steal from you too.
15. Studio 28 Music Store
Address: 28329 Paseo Drive #160, Wesley Chapel, FL 33543 , Wesley Chapel , Florida , United States
Really nothing to say except the best music store around
Awesome store and I haven’t event purchased anything. Staff is great. Kids love that they can try out all the instruments. Love hearing actual musicians play as they shop.
Not much inventory to choose from. People were friendly.
So , this review is for the the summer drum camp not music lessons. My son and nephew both attended drum camp this week at Studio 28. My son kept complaining that the camp was not fun because their instructor was on the phone the entire time. He also stated that the other group instructors took their group outdoors to play. When their group asked to go outside my son states the instructor told them outdoors was for losers. The next morning I walked them in and observed their instructor on her cell phone both talking and texting as her group arrived. I even had time to take a quick photo of her on her cell phone. My nephew also was picked up by an adult that was not on his authorized pick up list. We did not attend the camp the last two days as a result. I have good experiences with music lessons at this location. But, their summer camp is a no go.
I went in to studio28 in January and thought they had the best collection of guitars I had ever seen in a store. I went in this past weekend and they were moving a lot of stuff around, but they had much less of the great unique guitars than earlier.
