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Guitar Center
4.3 ★★★★☆ 1,480 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Clearwater, Florida
Music-store, part of a chain, selling guitars, drums and keyboards plus gear, plus repair services, lessons and friendly staff.
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 (727) 791-7464
- 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
“If you are looking for a Bass guitar, call ahead and find out when Ash is working.”
“I brought in an amplifier to trade toward the purchase of a trumpet, and the entire process was smooth, professional, and fair from start to finish.”
“Friendly and helpful knowledgeable staff, they won't hound you for a sale, very transparent to deal with, they have better deals and better used gear than the Tampa location.”
“He offered to restring it on the spot and had it done in about 15 minutes, which saved me a whole trip back and made my day so much easier.”
“Guitar Center offers music lessons which my daughter has enjoyed going to for a few years, she was receiving lessons from Glenn who is awesome.”
“They have a good section of music instruments and I planned to get a keyboard my for niece.”
“I brought in an amplifier to trade toward the purchase of a trumpet, and the entire process was smooth, professional, and fair from start to finish.”
Brands they deal
“Adriana was a huge help with my Progressive lease so I could take home a Fender Hot Rod Deville tube amp.”
“Worked his magic in my baby Martin travel guitar, getting it back in shape.”
“I purchased a PRS Special that had a few problems which needed to fixed.”
What players say again and again
“The trade-in value was very reasonable, and I was pleased with the amount I received.”
“Friendly and helpful knowledgeable staff, they won't hound you for a sale, very transparent to deal with, they have better deals and better used gear than the Tampa location.”
“Erick was awesome, he helped me get my first guitar and set me up with all the gear I needed!”
From the reviews
Adriana was a huge help with my Progressive lease so I could take home a Fender Hot Rod Deville tube amp. Unfortunately, something went wrong in the paperwork process.
Jimmy G guitar tech extraordinaire! What a great guy. Was so nice and attentive to me, everyone else there on a busy Saturday. Worked his magic in my baby Martin travel guitar, getting it back in shape. Such a great experience. Will absolutely return!
I had a fantastic experience at the Clearwater Guitar Center. I brought in an amplifier to trade toward the purchase of a trumpet, and the entire process was smooth, professional, and fair from start to finish. The trade-in value was very reasonable, and I was pleased with the amount I received.
I came in today just to buy new strings and get my guitar restrung, and I had such a great experience that I had to leave a review. Jimmy G. helped me out, and he was awesome—super knowledgeable, funny, and clearly knew his stuff when it came to different string types and even the shape/body style of my guitar.
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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