Aaron's Music was opened in the 1980's by Aaron Cowels, a long-time employee of the Gibson Custom…read moreshop, and it was rapidly established as a custom-maker of world-class guitars and other stringed instruments. It is now run by Aaron's son Steve who learned from his father the art of making the best guitars that can be made at any price. Tucked away in the small town of Vicksburg, Mi, this unassuming shop attracts premier musicians from across the world, and for good reason. Stop by to just say hello or to buy or commission the building on one of their best-of-the-best Jubal guitars or mandolins. You won't be disappointed, and I'm pretty sure that you'll be entertained. An A+++++ gem tucked into southwestern Michigan.

From the owner: Luthier services of all types. Building and repairing classic American steel string acoustic…read moreguitars, as well as all other types of fretted instruments.

Went in today to look around and get some strings and see overall what was in store. Left with a…read moreCMG hand built guitar from Georgia. Will is super friendly, professional and knowledgeable. I will absolutely be back. I found my neighborhood music store. Excellent experience!!!

Great Music Store. Excellent service. Best prices around. Honest. Has a large selection of used…read moreinstruments. I have my eye on one of the Flugelhorns in the show case! Great price. Glad I don't have to drive to Kalamazoo anymore for supplies.

I am not in the market for buying instruments, but lately, I've been selling. I had 2 old…read moresaxophones that I took in to Marshall Music for a price estimate. They did the estimates and told me what I could do to sell them. I am real happy about the money I got for those, much more than I paid and they both also needed pad work done. This is all I've had done there, since I'm not into buying right now, but I am getting ready to sell one of my 4 guitars. I have 2 Fender Stratocasters, an Avarez acoustical, and the one I'm selling, a hollow body guild. It's worth about what I thought, but I now have their written statement on it's worth. This is a service that I could not find elsewhere, so kudos to them.

Will be joining Circuit City, et al, in retail oblivion soon. Don't shop here. Ignorant staff…read more Pathetic inventory. Cheap knockoffs favored over REAL merchandise. Prices are almost all list. "Special order" means "someday...whenever...maybe..."

Have rented multiple instruments here for local school orchestra needs. Both of my daughters love…read morethe violins. Oldest daughter lost a string once, and they replaced it for free. Great service.

Horrible customer service and will not repair things they don't sell. Told me my daughters…read moreinstrument was probably just a knock off. Really? I bought it at a Music and Arts near DC so I called them and they were bothered also, as they buy directly from the instrument company. I will take my 3 band kids anywhere else. It will be worth the drive to have useful, knowledgable information, and helpful customer service.

This guitar shop deserves the reputation it has. Great selection of instruments and their service…read moredepartment is very professional.

Amazing stock. Helpful service! They had a guitar that is rare and they put it aside for me till I…read morecould get there from Milwaukee. They have some of the best luthiers, too!

My experience with this store was excellent. They went way above and beyond their duty as employees…read moreto help me and did everything they could to straighten out what the online people did which it did stem from online it costed me over eight hours of work really five or six and I am a tattoo artist and I make $250 and the online service act like it wasn't a big deal. I counting the three hour round-trip trip but these people in Kalamazoo Michigan I recommend you see them. I recommend that you talk with them because they are professional at their job. I give them 100% I will see them many times in the future where I will never call online again and I hope they took my representative because I filed a complaint against him. He called back all apologetic and tried to make it right with me, but all he did was changing the order and overnighted to me and was supposed to give me a lousy $20 refund and it has not been put upon my card and has not been put anywhere anywhere so I guess they're just gonna keep that $20 too. I say they owe me a lot more. I asked for some extra guitar pics just to see what they would say and I was refused so this order was way more because of the discounts they gave me and the original bill was like $60 more than what the stuff they sent me next day air. We will see you tomorrow when I receive it and then I'm gonna write another review because I filed a complaint against the man that did it he was specifically told certain things and he specifically did what he wanted to do. I recommend going to the Kalamazoo store. They are very good people, especially the manager named Jake. He was the one and his crew was the one that were there for me. I gave them all five stars.

They did not let me play stairway to Heaven because supposedly it is banned and I got kicked out of…read moreguitar center! A random guy came up to me and yelled hamburger too!

David Teske, is a consummate professional in everything he does, but especially when it comes to…read morefine string instruments. It is not really easy to compare David's work with others as it really is as good as it can get. He is a true artist and a great asset to the guitar and related musical instrument industry.

I have a Heritage H-535 in trans. black and over time I lost interest in play it. Being such an…read moreincredible guitar it really bothered me that it got to the point that it lived in it's case. A buddy of mine turned me on to Dave that had refinished a Fender Strat that I sold him some time ago and the make over was mind blowing, a totally new guitar!! This inspired me to to refinish the H-535. I got in touch with Dave and explained my situation and get his feel for what I was looking to do. He first explained that to refinish a trans black to a lighter finish (trans blue) is a bit challenging but he was totally into taking this on. I sent him a couple images of guitars in the finish that I liked and he responded with a color sample that was exactly what I had in mind and it's a go. During the process Dave kept me up to speed with where he was and updating the time line which really built up the excitement!! I just picked up the guitar last night and when he reviled his work I was totally speechless. He knocked this one out of the park. It was exactly what I wanted, a guitar that I cannot take my eyes off and more importantly my hands!! The set up is dead nuts perfect and he even cleared up a couple hanger scars to boot. In short Dave is a really cool guy that has an incredible talent with making guitars incredible to play and enjoy. I could not thank him enough for expressing my vision to this wonderful Heritage H-535 and really looking forward to working with him resurrecting another. Thanks Dave!! RockiT!!!!!

I do not recommend going here for instrument rentals, or for anything really. Unfortunately, we had…read morea very bad experience our first time here. We would love to support local when we can, but we will not be returning here. We were given an instrument that seemed one size too small and sounded like a toy compared to our previous rental instrument from Meyer music. Even my 4 year old said , "eeeeeew" after trying it out for the first time. We rented for one day , called to ask about the returning it and the worker on the phone initially said we could go in and get refunded, but then called back and said we would still be responsible for the charge. He seemed like he didn't know what he was talking about because he kept recommending that we go in and try out the other instruments and said they had a variety to choose from, but we were clearly told the previous day that there was only ONE instrument in stock in the size we needed. Upon returning the instrument the next day, the customer service guy shrugged it off and said "you had the chance to try it," after showing them the picture of their instrument compared to another. The rental instrument was for a very young kid who wouldn't have questioned it. My child's instructors were surprised at the size difference, and mentioned they would recommend continue renting either at Meyer music in Grand Rapids, or even Shar music. We were unable to have a successful lesson with no proper instrument so we left our lesson and went to return the instrument directly. It's been super hard to reach out to the manager at the store. The workers there seem to be untrained and when we when to return the instrument, he took it and said we were all set without even entering anything in the system or getting our name. When asked to get a receipt, he asked for name and proceeded to type something, we ended up with a receipt of our original rental $21.xx, and the receipt also mentioned next billing cycle starts next month, nothing about ending the rental agreement, or instrument being returned. In the photo: left is the actual size we are in, right is the rental. The shoulder rest that we had wouldn't even stay on the violin... it just kept slipping off.....something is clearly not right, and they are not willing to make things right or even admit that a mistake was made. Lesson learned! We hope our experience will help save you the trouble that we experienced.

The staff are always friendly and knowledgeable. I appreciate that the teachers are known,…read moretop-notch performers in the area. The location is convenient as well!