Location: 203 W Conant Street, Maumee Ohio Parking: plenty…read moreof free street parking out front and behind store Website: https://www.smallboxmusic.com What a great find! Open since 2018, I have not spent much time in NW Ohio but solved that today with my grandchildren. My granddaughter just received a beautiful electric guitar for her birthday and we were looking for a strap and picks. Man. Great selection of accessories and a really beautiful selection of guitars for purchase. The service is impeccable and this is a really nice store with a great vibe!

Great staff, wonderful selection of new and used guitars. So nice to visit with a friendly vibe…read more Experts in all things guitars.

I truly had thee best experience at any one store on any level!!! Heights guitars is one store that…read morehasn't forgotten about great customer service!!!! Even the customers are genuine and helpful. If you're in the market for a guitar or banjo or bass or any type of string instrument I bet money there is no store better than Heights Guitars.

Easy place to get repairs, sometimes they'll repair on the spot, and the best selection of strings…read moreand gear in town, good range of prices for all budgets with used equipment available. They carry all kinds of stringed instruments and percussion and tons of used amps.

In the 1980's I was a young 8 year old boy just beginning to learn how to play guitar. 35 years…read morelater I returned to Valley Music just to look at the place where it all began. To my surprise, I found the same two people behind the counter. 35 years. Thats how much experience they have, and probably more, in lessons, sales, repair and service. They know musical instruments better than any "music-mart" or musical instrument store in the area. Thanks to Valley Music, I was playing in my first band by the age of 13, and am still a working musician. If you are interested in musical lessons or sales, I HIGLY RECOMMEND Valley Music over all the other local musical instrument stores in the area.

I can see from the other reviews that I did not get special treatment. Apparently that woman is…read morenasty yo EVERYONE, not just me. I went in to get a new string for a guitar, and she went off of me because I didn't use the word Please when I asked if they sold guitar strings? What? She lectured me on how to ask if they sold guitar strings. When I placated her, and said please (in retrospect, I should have just walked out), she answered the question and then said, "Now you need to say Thank You." 0 stars. The service is terrible. The employee is rude and disgusting, and it is no wonder she is working in that raggedy run down shop in NowheresVille, Ohio. I hope she has the town that she deserves.

I was looking online for specific drums: Mapex Saturns. I found a three-piece set at the Toledo…read more(Holland) store. I called to ask for an associate to look over the set to confirm it's online condition rating as "Great." He cheerfully obliged. I purchased the drums over the phone. Shipping from Ohio to Idaho was only $38! Plus, Guitar Center offers a 45-day return (just bring it to your local GC). Shipping only took a few days and the drums arrived very well packed in three individual boxes. The condition was as described. The only hiccup was that a tom clamp was not included in the shipment. I called the store and spoke to Ops Mgr JD. He couldn't find the clamp that had been in the online photo so he located a new one and shipped it to me. I am very satisfied with the helpfulness of the staff at this store.

Like most "super-stores" that sell musical instruments, this one is equally disappointing. Low…read moreend, low quality instruments sold at high prices with the misleading sales pitches by inexperienced individuals. Perhaps its o.k. for the starter musician or parents who don't have a clue about the instruments they're about to buy, but to the professional, its a big, supers-sized let down. If you try to look for, say a Bose L1 system, they only have an imitation brand, or the most generic version. If you're looking for a Spanish style, Nylon string guitar, they only have cheap quality ones, mostly made in China, not Spain. Again, their size is impressive, but to the seasoned musician, its like going to a garage sale with little hope of finding something of quality value.

This review is based only on my experience with Frank's repair. Be warned…read more I built a tube amplifier from a Mojotone kit and despite triple checking all assembly steps when I fired it up (unplugged) was created with very loud buzzing which increased in volume with increase in amp gain controls. After frustrating review of every assembly step and verification that there were no cold solder joints or bad grounds I gave up and decided to have trouble shooting done by a certified amp tech. Frank is an elderly gentleman who works out of a very poorly lit and cluttered small apartment. I should have known better but I was anxious to get my project up and running. Now Frank's terms are $100 minimum and repair work not to exceed $150 without owner permission. Seemed fair so I handed over $100. Six days later Fank advised the amp was repaired with a balance owed of $200. The rationale was that he spent six hours totally rewiring the amp at $50/hour. He never advised me that the repair would in fact exceed the $150 "not to exceed" stated in my order. Nor did I ever ask Frank to undo all of my work and re-wire it. All I requested was for him to troubleshoot it and correct the issue. He does not have an oscilloscope so another red flag that should have had me running for the hills. It's my belief that Frank could not diagnose the problem so he decided to re-wire the whole thing. A good amp tech should have been able to pinpoint the cause of the buzzing without going to the extreme of rewiring everything. When I arrived at his apartment to check out the repair I plugged in a guitar and immediately noted that the loud buzzing was gone but there was a very noticeable hum which got louder with increase in amp gain. Frank said "oh it wasn't doing that when I checked it out". I unplugged the guitar and hum remained. Frank implied it was normal and I should expect that at high gain with a vintage tube amp circuit. I question Frank about the $300 charge without my consent and he said because he has sent me a text with a picture of the work in progress that should have sufficed as my approval since I did not say stop. I paid him the additional $200 thinking that the hum was perhaps environmental electro magnetic interference. I got the amp chassis home and installed it in the cabinet but the objectionable hum did not go away. I contact Monotone tech support and they advised that a properly built kit is dead quiet except for maybe some tube hiss at max gain settings. Frank's paperwork stated that the repair had a thirty day warranty. When I called him out on this he refused to do any further work on my amp and he said the he got it working and he was not about to but any more unpaid repair time in it. He said "you gave me an amp that had no output, it works now and hum was not the issue. It's your project, welcome to the world of electronics. Figure it out buddy" I decided to troubleshoot the hum. I discovered a cold solder joint connected to pre-amp tube V1 and that Frank had mis-wired the center tap from the power transformer. I removed that wire from the wrong location on the circuit board and soldered it in its correct location. Hum gone. Amp dead quiet even at max gain settings. I highly recommend that you think twice about using Ann Arbor Amplifier for amp repair.

I had a customer that bought a custom tube amp from me. He had me ship it cross country to him. I'm…read moreon the West Coast. He's in Michigan. This is a big, heavy unit. He loved it but suddenly it stopped working. What to do? Shipping is expensive and hazardous. I found Bartsonics on Craigslist a few blocks from the customer. A local to check it out, perfect! The customer had told me that the only repair place there quoted him a six month wait to even look at the amp. He didn't know about Bartsonics. The next day, yes, the next day, not six months later, Bartsonics had checked the unit out and a verdict was in. The amp was perfect. No issues at all. The customer was the issue. That solved it for me. If not for Bartsonics I was on the hook for everything, big return shipping, whatever, it was on me. As it was, I was in the clear. They saved me. Thank you Bartsonics.

Rettig music has sub-par string instrument for a high price. I myself am a violist and when I went…read morethere the instruments were nothing compared to what I was able to find for much cheaper at places like Shar. The staff seemed friendly, but not very knowledgeable when it comes to string instruments; they seemed to know much more about band instruments.

Shopped here earlier this year while looking for a new violin. The salesman who helped us is really…read moreknowledgeable and friendly. Although most of their business is student instruments (including lots of brass), they also had some very good quality intermediate violins at reasonable prices. Got some sheet music at a good price. Score!

I worked in the Toledo Detroit area for 42 years. At one point Toledo had 17 music stores!…read more I worked for most of them. Craig was driven and committed to his customers and treated his employees well. I got ill and had to resign but I follow the stores. Keep on going Craig! Betty Lanz

From the owner: New & Used Pianos, PianoDisc Player System Installer, New Digital Keyboards, Sheet Music,…read morePiano/Keyboard Rentals, Piano Lessons! Piano Tuning, Repairs, and Restoration!

Owner claims "eco-friendly" but the biz does not recycle even though recycle bins are steps away…read more I'm in a business close by and we use the recycle containers as everyone is told to. It's just too much for the young people that work there to walk the recyclables to the recycle bins... I'm sure there bikes are top notch but don't claim "eco-friendly" when you don't live the life....

Kind staff. Charitable people. Understanding of your situation. Special shout-out to Drew.read more