Knowledgeable, friendly staff. Nice store and reasonable prices. They call with repair estimates…read morefirst and will find whatever you're looking for.

Rochester Pro Music is your typical local music store…read more They have a good number of electric, acoustic and bass guitars from common brands like Fender, Ibanez, Les Paul, etc... As well as a good selection of pedals and amps. As would be expected, they also sell PA equipment, drums and mixers, as well as a pretty hefty selection of used gear. The store also has six (I believe) teaching rooms, and a number of guitar and bass teachers. My former guitar teacher is now working there. As expected, they do repairs on musical equipment. There are a couple of reasons I am giving them four stars instead of five: 1)Their pricing isn't too competitive. 2)The owner does not like "random jamming" on the guitars, because they wear on them a bit. While this is a perfectly valid point, every other music shop I've been to will let anybody borrow a cable and pick and play with their guitars whenever they want. Why? Because they'll buy sooner or later. 3)The brother of one of my neighbors bought a Les Paul guitar there, and brought it in for service on something that was under warranty, and they would not honor the warranty. While I certainly don't know the whole situation, it's still something to consider.

Arts Guild has awesome classes for both kids and adults, and they do amazing theater. Our kids have…read morebeen in several theatrical productions and loved them. Both of my kids have participated in art classes here, including drawing classes and pottery classes, and they came home excited about art, which I think is great. Yeah kids, you can put down your electronic gizmos for one hour and actually be creative, the old fashioned way.

From the owner: Art gallery, art classes, theater, orchestra and folk music, dance programread more

these people know their instruments and they most definitely are all about the customer…read more they will work with you on any level including budget. I love this place. true, honest and most importantly well versed in the music business

Brickhouse is the ideal local music store! The staff is amazing and the owner, Tom, is as nice and…read moreknowledgeable as they come. I've purchased a few bass guitars from Brickhouse with my most recent being an Order-Option G&L. Tom was insanely helpful through the process. The other cool part is that they have a far better assortment of guitars, basses, and amps than the big box stores. But local and support the small business instead! I seriously can't recommend this place enough!

Super nice shop. Called them up to check on the stock of a pedal. Although it was ultimately out of…read morestock, they were helpful in giving me suggestions for similar gear, and let me know of some special edition pedals they had coming up. I wouldn't hesitate to shop with them at all, Brickhouse seems really knowledgable and super friendly.

Great selection of Orange Amps. Lots of ukuleles with super nice ones from Amahi. Excellent and…read moreknowledgeable staff. Good selection of cables, connectors and parts. For a store in this size of a town, they really do have the stuff. Go check out Mark and his sales guys because they are the best around.

From the owner: Welcome to Mark's Music Studio. We specialize in friendly customer service-specializing in Guitars…read moreand guitar repair-We also Buy, Sell, Trade, and Consign all types of Music Items. We offer free appraisals including Mark's Piano tuning service which has been serving our local area over the past 25 years. There are over 100 new and used guitars and stringed instruments in stock. In addition to our great selection in guitars we also have: - Amps - Sound Systems - Pedals - Recording Equipment - ProSound and Sound System rentals - Specialty cables and connectors - Music Books - Lighting - Many accessories... Many great brands in stock include: - Peavey - Orange - Heritage - Seagull - Guild - PRS - Alvarez - Dunlop - QSC - Cad Audio - Line 6 We have a great selection to meet all your musical merchandise needs. Come in to the studio often as our selection is always changing... Mark's Music Studio is at 130 4th St. SW, Mason City, IA. (Next to the new Jitters location.)

Bought a guitar (used Epiphone "Greeny" Les Paul) through Reverb. Great experience! Great guitar…read more Great pricing! Couldn't be happier with transaction!

I have been using this store for all my equipment needs for the past several months. Since I live…read moreclose by. I've told all my friends about it. Every time I have a musician buddy in town we go to that store. I never leave empty-handed. I've bought my soundboard. All my strings. You name it whatever I need. I've gotten it from there. Everyone has been great. Until today. my buddy is in town and he is a fantastic country artist. I took him up to show him the ultra or the Texas T as I call it. I planned on buying this guitar. I planned on getting it soon. I've been saving up for it. The guy working the counter was just very dismissive of us. I didn't recognize him . I don't think he's ever been in there whenever I've gone up there before. Today I needed some new cables. I'd get a new condenser microphone, but they only had these cheap little things that aren't worth recording vocals on. So I was gonna leave the store with some XLR cables and a 3.5 splitter that I needed. He had them sitting on the counter for me. I should note I am blind. my buddy and I had moved into the acoustic room and just started playing a song when he came in and ran us off. I didn't have a guitar in my hand for more than two minutes. And he said that there was some rule that only 10 minutes were allowed in total to play any guitar in the store. Which I know is not true. I've been in there for over an hour playing on guitars and never been ran off. This dude was super disrespectful and I left the store empty-handed. I don't think I'm ever gonna go back. Which sucks to say because it was convenient and usually nice in there. The owner is a good guy. I hate that this happened. But I won't tolerate disrespect. i'll just go to guitar center or stick with Logan over at rock bottom.

The staff is always helpful and they can special order items not in stock. We've bought a violin…read moreand trumpet from Schmitt, and had the trumpet cleaned and maintained.

As a beginner I wasn't sure where to start when it came to cleaning and restringing my bass. Chris…read moreand Noah were very knowledgeable, kind and helpful. My bass was restringed, cleaned, tuned all within a timely manner and they sat through all my questions. I'm lucky to live close by but regardless if I didn't they would still have my business. When I'm ready to purchase a nice new bass this will 100% be the place to get it.

My seven-year old child took piano lessons with Chrissy for about three months. I found Chrissy to…read morebe a disengaged and fairly dour teacher. My child's typical remarks were about how grumpy and strict she was. Rescheduling missed classes was difficult and once when we were able to reschedule, she had not put it on her calendar. We eventually asked to end classes in mid-December 2022, but then received a full charge for January 2023. When we asked about this, we were told that we should have read our contract more carefully, because 30 days notice was required when cancelling lessons. Because apparently it takes a month to coordinate losing a student in a group class setting? Did not enjoy having to pay for a month-and-a-half of classes we did not take. Overall, a very negative experience and we will happily seek out piano lessons elsewhere.

I've been to Ralph twice repairs, once on my Selmer flute and once on my Yamaha french horn. Both…read moretimes he did a fantastic job!!! I had two spots for dent repair on my horn; a bigger one just above the screw bell, and a lot of smaller ones beyond the throat. Ralph did an amazing job on both, and for only $40!!

Very competent work at extremely reasonable rates. Ralph was able to get my clarinet fixed and back…read moreto me much faster than I have experienced in the past with some of the bigger repair shops. He's also clearly very knowledgeable about various aspects of the instrument biz.