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Guitar Center
4.3 ★★★★☆ 905 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Country Club Hills, Illinois
Part of a national chain, this music store offers instruments, amps, and recording equipment, plus 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 (708) 799-0315
- 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
“Received my tremolo pedal from this store today and they could not have done a better job!”
“Also bought a used guitar a year ago that had fret buzz i couldn't rid of and they exchanged it with no issues.”
Brands they deal
What players say again and again
“Tay is SO knowledgeable and adept at finding the exact piece of gear for literally any guitar related need.”
From the reviews
Wow super friendly and wonderful staff. Raven helped me troubleshoot my gear and listened to me rant about my daily life after I raged into the store for nothing. My microphone did work, I just needed the appropriate wire. Thanks for being helpful and a great person!
This is becoming my new hangout. I started taking bass lessons with Mr. Randy. Awesome teacher and I definitely recommend him to people. Charpara helped me tremendously with the three Harbinger Speakers: Vari 4412 12" Powered Speakers, and two Vari SM508 8" Studio monitor speakers; the Behringer U-Phoria interface,…
Took my gear in to sell (I don’t play anymore) and got a fair deal for it. Taylor helped me out and was very friendly and knowledgeable of the gear I was selling.
Tay is SO knowledgeable and adept at finding the exact piece of gear for literally any guitar related need. The most attentive rep a music store could ask for. I’m coming back to this location even though arlington is closer to where I live because he’s saved me so much time with his experience and input.
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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