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Guitar Center
4.3 ★★★★☆ 507 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in College Station, Texas
Source for guitars, drums, keyboards, and amplifiers, as well as recording and DJ equipment.
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 (979) 694-6982
- 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
“Super cool down to earth guys, very knowledgeable and totally competent when it came to my recent repair work I trusted them with.”
“Large selection of accessories, guitars, stands, keyboard, drums, music books, novelty items.”
Brands they deal
What players say again and again
“Super cool down to earth guys, very knowledgeable and totally competent when it came to my recent repair work I trusted them with.”
From the reviews
Special thanks to Ralph, Adam, and Emilio. Super cool down to earth guys, very knowledgeable and totally competent when it came to my recent repair work I trusted them with. Adam is a very talented and professional tech, and Ralph a very knowledgeable advisor on products that would be perfect for what I'm trying to do.
I recently had a fantastic experience at guitar Center on December 17. The staff was incredibly attentive, and the checkout process was smooth and efficient, also they give me a Christmas present for my speakers, I particularly appreciated how the manager (I don't remember his name) went above and beyond to help me…
I went to "audition" a couple of inexpensive acoustic guitars with pickups and was impressed with the assortment of guitars in stock, including the two Yamaha guitars I was hoping to compare.
Was small but had some very nice guitars. We asked about if they had any Ovation guitars, and the salesman had no idea what we were talking about. 0.o. They DO have a 10% veterans discount if you ask them. My friend who moved from Phoenix was pleased with the guitar string prices.
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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