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Guitar Stores in New Orleans, LA

New Orleans has 13 guitar stores — including 1 that buys used gear, 2 with lessons, 2 vintage specialists, and 2 with repair shops. Listings are ranked by what players say (rating weighted by review count) and show live open-now hours and who buys used gear, so you can pick a shop and go.

Euclid Records New Orleans

4.8 ★★★★★ 632 reviews

3301 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA

Vintage specialist

Independent record shop with new & used vinyl, CDs, live music performances & a hot pink storefront.

Webb's Bywater Music

4.8 ★★★★★ 203 reviews

3217 Burgundy St, New Orleans, LA

expert setups & repairsfair trade-in offersknowledgeable staff

Laid-back shop offering new & pre-owned musical instruments, equipment & accessories plus repairs.

NOLA Mix Records

4.7 ★★★★★ 197 reviews

1522 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA

Lessons knowledgeable stafffriendly staff

Hip, local shop for vinyl albums, CDs, tapes, music equipment and merchandise.

Domino Sound Record Shack

4.8 ★★★★★ 145 reviews

2557 Bayou Rd, New Orleans, LA

Buys used gear knowledgeable staff

Small record store known for its wide selection of world, soul, and jazz music, plus instruments.

Strange Guitarworks

4.9 ★★★★★ 110 reviews

1122 Dublin St, New Orleans, LA

Repairs & setups Vintage specialist expert setups & repairsknowledgeable staffgood value

Guitar repair shop fixing a range of issues from loose output jacks to trickier problems.

The Peculiar Note

4.6 ★★★★★ 54 reviews

910 Elysian Fields Ave, New Orleans, LA

Lessons Repairs & setups expert setups & repairsfriendly staff

Store selling new and used brass, woodwind, guitar, and stringed instruments, and offering repairs.

New Orleans Guitar Co

5 ★★★★★ 17 reviews

523 N Alexander St, New Orleans, LA

GLUE NEW ORLEANS

4.2 ★★★★☆ 29 reviews

8206 Oak St, New Orleans, LA

The Backline Company - NOLA

4.9 ★★★★★ 13 reviews

4431 Euphrosine St D, New Orleans, LA

Smoky's Store

4.8 ★★★★★ 12 reviews

1214 N Peters St Booth 102A, New Orleans, LA

Mercury Lab Guitars

4 ★★★★☆ 4 reviews

727 Louisa St, New Orleans, LA

NOLA Guitar Shop

2.7 ★★★☆☆ 7 reviews

3920 General De Gaulle Dr, New Orleans, LA

Sweetwater

709 Jackson Ave, New Orleans, LA

Good to know in New Orleans

5 of the 10 shops with posted hours are open on Sundays.

For a setup or repair work, the shops with a bench here are Strange Guitarworks and The Peculiar Note.

Hunting vintage? Euclid Records New Orleans and Strange Guitarworks are the vintage & rare specialists in town — evidence from the shop's own site or player reviews.

Selling or trading gear?

This shop buys or trades used gear — evidence from the shop's own site or player reviews, not a guess. Bring in the one you don't play; store credit usually beats the cash offer, and calling ahead with the make and model saves everyone time.

Shops that buy used gear, city by city →

Getting started?

These stores offer lessons — for kids, adult beginners, and players knocking off rust. There's no wrong first guitar: rent or buy the instrument, get it set up, and book the teacher in one trip.

Guitar lessons in New Orleans →

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