My son has been taking piano lessons from Melinda at Giacoletti Music Center for several years now…read more Melinda and the staff have fostered and nurtured my son's love of music and he has excelled during Melinda's instruction. My son has played at venues, participated in recitals, and is a National Member of Guild because of Giacoletti Music Center. Now my son will be applying to college for a music performance degree. We are so grateful for finding Giacoletti and highly recommend anyone to take lessons here.

I just wanna give a shout out to Melinda, this review has been a long time coming. Me and my wife…read morehave been doing business with Melinda for quite a few years now and I have to say she is very committed and passionate at what she does. Just an overall great person. We would never bring our kids to another music place other than here. I highly recommend to my friends and family thanks. Giocoletti Music!!

Nice little music store! Good variety of instruments. Some really nice tongue drums, and guitars…read more They also have picks, strings and basic supplies. It is also a gift shop with lots of fun things!

Great little music shop in the heart of Carlsbad Village…read more For a relatively small shop, Carlsbad Village Music has just about everything music related. Instruments including guitars, amps and ukuleles. They have a lot of interesting memorabilia type items and kitschy decorative stuff also. They give music lessons too! Becky and I wandered in just to mill around a bit. I found a cool little Fender amp lunch pail that I just had to have. It was under 20 bucks! The two guys working were cool, friendly and helpful. We're very glad that we stopped in. If you go, don't forget to stop and say "Hi" to Rizzo the pug dog!

I've been at coastal for seven years, and it's always been great. I take guitar and my sister used…read moreto take piano. The staff are all so kind and make great effort to get to know their students. I've been in the band, done recitals, and done open mics, everything is always super well run. Amazing studio.

10/10 recommend!! My son has been going for 5 years for…read moreguitar lessons and it has been an amazing experience. He loves his teachers, the owners, his bandmates. He has done the summer art & music camps for several years as a student and enjoyed it, I think this upcoming summer he will be old enough to be a camp helper and he's looking forward to it.

Saturday we attended a concert put on by Kainga Music at Moonlight Theater in Vista (awesome venue…read moreBTW). Kainga is a non-profit organization run by some of the most passionate people I have ever met. Coach Keli is the main instructor and Coach Phillip is his assistant instructor. The show was so entertaining and it is such a feel-good experience that you cannot keep from smiling throughout the entire performance. With public schools cutting music and art, I love that Kainga Music has brought music back to a limited number of schools and would love to see their program expand exponentially! The groups of students that were brought on stage to perform were kids that only had 5 lessons, 5 hours of music lessons with no way for them to practice in between. I would guess that the youngest were 7-8 and then all the way up to high school. They all learned at least 2 songs and they all had a great time performing (big confidence booster) and I have to say that watching Coach Keli lead the concert is, in its self, worth the price of admission! He is super passionate about music and you can see that he genuinely cares about the kids, congratulating and high-fiving every kid after their performance! Kainga Music also has lessons several times a week for the public. My husband and I have taken several classes and the group is so fun and supportive. Anyone that wants to learn to play steel drum is welcome and you can get all the information about that from their website. www.KaingaMusic.com. Check it out!

I would second everything Kathy F said in her review. A totally upbeat, inspiring…read moreperformance...... full of energy, fun, smiling and proud kids showing their steel drum talents. It is amazing what they could do after 5 one hour lessons. I also loved seeing Keli and Phillip's other students, ranging from one just 9 years old, to parents and grandparents. What a diverse group playing together and all having the time of their lives. Who knows when one student will be inspired to go on with the steel drums or take up another instrument based upon their positive experience in these classes. As Kathy said, what a confidence booster for these school kids.

Larry was very knowledgeable and very patient he was detail-oriented and took his time to clean my…read morepiano. He tuned my piano, cleaned and repaired anything that was broken. I would recommend him to anyone looking for piano services in San Marcos and North county San Diego.

Larry was very professional and efficient in tuning our piano. He's very knowledgeable, friendly,…read moreefficient and honest. I wouldn't hesitate in using his services again.