Cool little shop for artists just starting out to get in front of a crowd.
Good place for Jam night
A true A-1 guitar shop with great service!!!!
Friendly staff and atmosphere, theres even live music every Weds. @ their open mic night!!
Freindly owner supports live music
The staff at the store were extremely knowledgeable and friendly. I didn’t feel pressured to buy anything. I bought a guitar for my daughter and felt the price was fair.
So bad treatment if you are Latino 🙂
2. West Valley Music Center
Address: 24424 Vanowen St, West Hills, CA 91307 , West Hills , California , United States
Mess Min Who teaches the piano class there is super kind and very efficient with teaching the piano class.
The best piano Teachers so far. Miss Min is great.
Jeff is a one of a kind teacher,as well as a great guy,never charges me the actual sticker price for strings!if you have kids I would highly recommend jeff as a teacher!how rare is it to find a guy through his teaching has brought the gift of music to so many people,playing an instrument ,being close to music brings an inner peace to your life!thanks jeff
Took some guitar lessons there with Craig (Craig is awesome!) for a bit. A place to get emergency guitar strings, cord, etc. Very limited selection, small store. Mostly a place for lessons.
We have rented several instruments over the years and have been very pleased with West Valley. I’ve got a couple of more kids on the way up musically so I imagine I’ll be back.
They “open at 10.” Got there at 10 after, and they were STILL closed. It’s a small shop; I peeked through the window to see if they carried some books I was looking for, and it seems that, at least at the front, they don’t. Poor selection. Maybe there are more in the back…? Disappointed.
We had used the place previously to buy sheet music and small things like mouthpiece and such. Last month we wanted to rent a trombone for a short time. Owner was unhappy to rent it just for few weeks but did it. They asked for $100 deposit. Kid is a very responsible child that has played piano for years and brass instrument for an year (knows how to take care of them). He made a point to be super careful with rented instrument. We returned it on time exactly as recieved but couldn’t get deposit back because “owner is out of town”. Few weeks later my wife went to get deposit back (finally) and was told that child isn’t responsible, didn’t take care of instrument and it required repair to the tune of $65. No proof (“This is how we do it”, per owner), no photos of “damage”, no receipt. Just giving back $35 instead of a $100. Nice way to do business. You just turned away the customers that are very much into music and could’ve bought next instrument or two from you.
An environment to flourish the natural artistic gifts of a child. This is the music school we all hoped for as an alternative to the harsh 18th century theory methods and tedious practice. My boy loved his songwriting class while for the first time coolaborating with other young artists on a shared project. He learned essential critical thinking and communication skills and was systematically challenged to create new lyrics and music.
My son loves all the instructors he has worked with and looks forward to every session. Highly recommend.for any aspiring musician.
Our son did his first one week camp here – 101 Rock. With just a little prior experience on acoustic guitar – he got to learn to play two awesome songs in his “band” and rock out on the electric guitar for the first time. The staff/instructors were great, he loved them and they were very attentive to the kids. He gained a lot of confidence and grew and learned a lot in one week, definitely plan to sign him up again.
5. Fin Johnston
Address: 23100 Covello St, West Hills, CA 91307 , West Hills , California , United States
Very nice guy and interesting selection of instruments.
came in because all the guitar shops were closed, was skeptical because i didn’t see many reviews on this place, once we arrived it was like a magical land, Mohammad is awesome!!! will be coming back forsure
I got my acoustic nylon string guitar restrung. Same-day service! They did a phenomenal job!
7. KSC Music Consulting
Address: 24031 Lance Pl, West Hills, CA 91307 , West Hills , California , United States
An incredible teacher. Truly devotes so much effort and time to each of her students, as if they were her own kids. She makes them work hard and pushes them to be the absolute best versions of themselves.
An amazing teacher, mentor and friend. I have had the honor of working with her since I was 10 or 11, and I am now 19. She has challenged me in all of the right ways and taught me every technical and artistic nuance I know about the craft I love so much! Truly amazing human being and anyone would be so lucky to learn from her. She knows her stuff.
Marisa is an amazing teacher. She taught me how to sing with color and resonance, how to breathe correctly through the diaphragm, and more. Her attention-to-detail critiques and encouraging attitude have helped me improve greatly. I highly recommend taking lessons with her!
11. American Music & Sound
Address: 22020 Clarendon St UNIT 305, Woodland Hills, CA 91367 , West Hills , California , United States
Great shop, beautiful guitars, friendly crowd. Definitely coming back.
This place amazing! If you are looking for boutique guitars this is your spot. Not a “cookie cutter” guitar store. If play guitar and you have never been here, you’re missing out big time!
Really personable and friendly owner. Beautiful boutique guitars, and some great used or vintage instruments as well. Really nice place. Has a great selection of boutique effects pedals as well.
best quality!
Back in October of 2021, I reached out to Angel City Guitars to have this guitar built for my 30th birthday (in May of 2022). They said it was a 3-4 month wait so I paid in full upfront and went on my merry way. 3 months go by and I reach out to ACG and ask for an ETA and they say, “Well actually it is going to be closer to 6-8 months but you are lucky because other brands have over a year wait”. And every time I would ask him a question, he would keep saying that I was “lucky to have a shorter wait than other brands”. I wasn’t super pleased with this so I asked about the cancellation policy since blue JM63s come up fairly regularly on Reverb for less than the custom that I ordered and he kept side stepping answering my question. Long story short, I decided to keep waiting for the matching headstock. Then I did not hear from him for 4 months, no updates, no check-ins, nothing. So I reach out at 7 months and ask about an ETA and he says, “It should get here sometime in June”. So we plow through June and I ask for updates because I am traveling and have studio dates set and he ignores my emails. Then 3 days shy of 8 full months and weeks of being ignored, he messages me that the guitar has arrived.
So I go and pick up my guitar and I am excited to see and play it in the shop and I take it home. I have it sitting out next to my other guitars and the fretboard looks orange-ish grey almost like they spilled bleach on part of the fretboard. I sat with it a bit longer but I grew to not be happy with it so I reached out asking how we can go about getting a replacement neck since it looked so bad and he never responded to me.
I had to email Nash directly and we worked out getting a replacement neck. I tried to “support the little guy” by going to this shop and it was my worst guitar buying experience of my life.
Nobody is here. Store is dark. Waste of time. Guy showed up
I emailed Angel city guitars for an inquiry about trading in a guitar for another one as I am aware this shop has these services. He responded once asking for which guitar I was interested in, I gave him the guitars I would be interested in and he just ghosted me. I tried following up a couple days later giving him the benefit of the doubt and still did not respond. Stay away from this place.
14. Suburban Noize Records Inc
Address: 22110 Clarendon St # 103, Woodland Hills, CA 91367 , West Hills , California , United States
Address: 21430 Strathern St unit i, Canoga Park, CA 91304 , West Hills , California , United States
Assessment: ★★★★★
5/5 based on 2 evaluations.
Reviews
Jerry was great walked out the door with Alvarez Yairi DYM 60HD that I picked after looking elsewhere at D18 and new Taylor slope series if you want to play before you buy this is the place for High end Japanese guitars,worth the drive if your close enough.
THIS is where you want to buy your guitar… Specialists who know every piece of equipment as opposed to hired staff, paid hourly, who aren’t necessarily dialed in on what it is that they are selling. Passionate about the music industry and specifically guitars. Highly recommend.
16. Rinkmusic inc
Address: 22245 Ryan Ridge Way, Woodland Hills, CA 91367 , West Hills , California , United States
They have no customer service, don’t answer calls or emails. Terrible company.
No customer service! I’m unable to reach anyone over a week. I left multiple messages and sent emails, no response. Their product doesn’t work after I paid for it and there is no technical support available. Maybe they went out of business?
Fake
17. Gemi Tayler Productions
Address: 24101 Welby Way, West Hills, CA 91307 , West Hills , California , United States
