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Guitar Center
4.4 ★★★★☆ 605 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Athens, Georgia
Chain music store featuring guitars, drums, keyboards, DJ equipment, and other instruments.
Plan your visit
- Repairs & setups a repair bench comes up in reviews and the store's own info — call ahead for turnaround, since good techs run a queue
- Buys & trades used gear they buy, trade, or consign used instruments — bring the case and any original parts, and expect trade credit to beat the cash offer
- Lessons lessons come up in reviews and the store's own info — call about openings, instruments taught, and rates before the first visit
- Instrument rentals rentals mentioned — the usual route for band & orchestra season; ask about rent-to-own credit
- Today see hours ·
- Phone (706) 548-9354
- Website stores.guitarcenter.com
Hours
| Monday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Tuesday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Friday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Saturday | 11 AM–8 PM |
| Sunday | 11 AM–7 PM |
What's on the wall
“Awesome store and very helpful for finding everything you need to shred like the pros do 🤘 If you need anything guitar related (electric or acoustic) they have it!”
“Awesome store and very helpful for finding everything you need to shred like the pros do 🤘 If you need anything guitar related (electric or acoustic) they have it!”
“I had an issue when restringing my guitar and Jared was able to help immediately.”
“Neither of us are musicians but he will begin lessons next month.”
“I took my 10 year old grandson there, and they were more than happy to let him check out the guitars, drums, and keyboards.”
“I took my 10 year old grandson there, and they were more than happy to let him check out the guitars, drums, and keyboards.”
Brands they deal
What players say again and again
“Would've like to seen more selections of drums set up.”
“I don’t know much about guitars, but Jared was beyond helpful and knowledgeable!”
From the reviews
Good Guitar Center. Small store, but still plenty to choose from. I've got tons of gear from GC over the years. Staff is helpful as well, especially Kaleb! Super nice and always willing to help out.
I’m in Marching Band as a senior, I really enjoy music, and in High School Band, I playing crash cymbals snd suspended cymbals for High School Band and Marching Band, this store have really good quality and best instruments and more that people really need and wanted, I came here just for fun playing drum and piano, I…
So many to buy, great store great selection. Even a large selection of used guitars. Would've like to seen more selections of drums set up. Trying to decide whether to get a drum set or guitar. For some reason I want to start playing. My wife says guitar, still to be determined!
Order a guitar from here that was supposed to come with a custom case. The guitar arrived by itself without the case. (These things happen, especially this time of year).
Selling or trading gear at Guitar Center
Guitar Center comes up for buying and trading used gear — confirmed on their own site. Two things make the trip go better. First, bring the whole package: the case or gig bag, the original tremolo arm or bridge parts, the paperwork if you have it — a complete rig is worth real money more than a bare instrument, and it saves the back-and-forth of "can you bring the case in?" Second, know that trade credit almost always beats the cash offer, usually by a healthy margin — if you're upgrading anyway, price your old gear as a trade against the new one before you take cash. Either way, expect the offer to be below what the gear sells for on the wall; the gap is the store's margin for setup, warranty, and sitting on it until the right buyer walks in.
Lessons at Guitar Center
Reviews and the store's own info mention lessons at Guitar Center. If you're signing up a beginner (or restarting yourself), a quick call ahead answers the three things that matter: which instruments they teach, whether the schedule has openings at the time you actually need, and what a first lesson costs. There's no wrong first guitar — a good teacher will happily work with whatever you walk in with, and a shop that teaches usually keeps affordable starter instruments and rentals on hand for exactly this reason.
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