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Guitar Center
4.2 ★★★★☆ 1,300 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Greenville, South Carolina
Music store stocking amps, guitars, drums and recording gear.
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 (864) 987-0291
- 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 got some new bass pics and let's just say it was very hard to not walk out with new instruments for my husband and myself.”
“Had a fantastic experience doing a trade-in on a new BOSS Katana Artist Gen 3 amp!”
“U can find a $100 starter all the way up to a $10,000 vintage Les Paul.”
“Staff is always friendly and their selection of new and used guitars are always stellar.”
“The staff is always so nice and helpful, very knowledgeable, they give lessons, and it's neat watching people play and try out the drums.”
“The staff is always so nice and helpful, very knowledgeable, they give lessons, and it's neat watching people play and try out the drums.”
Brands they deal
What players say again and again
“Had a fantastic experience doing a trade-in on a new BOSS Katana Artist Gen 3 amp!”
“The staff is always so nice and helpful, very knowledgeable, they give lessons, and it's neat watching people play and try out the drums.”
From the reviews
I was in town for work and I have been looking for a gently used piece of equipment. I had the best customer service from Jason who happened to be from my hometown. He showed me what was in stock and helped me with my purchase.
Awesome guitar center, had a blast here today! Everyone was really nice and it was a lot of fun hanging out.
We go here for all our music instrument accessory needs, it's great for finding gifts for your musical friends and family. The staff is always so nice and helpful, very knowledgeable, they give lessons, and it's neat watching people play and try out the drums.
When you go to the guitar department, especially if you're a bass player, you need to ask for Ken. Dude is a wealth of knowledge, extremely humble and very gracious with his time. He helped this drummer calibrate his thinking in decision making Big Time.
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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