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Guitar Center
4.4 ★★★★☆ 1,152 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Music store chain stocking amps, guitars, drums and DJ equipment, plus providing rentals and repairs.
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 (423) 893-0745
- Website stores.guitarcenter.com
Hours
| Monday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Tuesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Friday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Saturday | 10 AM–9 PM |
| Sunday | 11 AM–7 PM |
What's on the wall
“I found a used bass I wanted on the Guitar Center we site.”
“Bram was mega helpful and really went out of his way to help my son with a looper pedal and an amp.”
“I found a used bass I wanted on the Guitar Center we site.”
“Came in to get an old guitar restrung and to get a strap for a banjolele.”
“Drew in the drum department was very professional.”
Brands they deal
From the reviews
This place is always clean and welcoming. The staff are willing to answer questions but they're also not in your face constantly with a sales pitch, which I like.
I recently purchased a guitar for a work project and was lucky enough to have Drew help me with it. He was super friendly, polite and had a great attitude the whole time. My friend came in to look at the guitars, but I wanted to pay for it with my company credit card.
I found a used bass I wanted on the Guitar Center we site. Called the store to confirm ot was still in stock. Drove an hour, walked in, saw the bass, played it, bought it. The stand and case was in stock, bought them. Salesman was great. Because I knew what I wanted, the whole experience was under 25 minutes.
I love playing a lot of different instruments fav is a harmonica ,,its hard to find a good easy to play one inexpensively,,,these guys at just a mention of such ,,looked in their system and found me an amazing deal impossible to turn down deal even!!thanks guitar center !!!and they play just as good as the deal!:))!
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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