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Guitar Center
4.3 ★★★★☆ 1,407 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Jacksonville, Florida
Retail chain stocking guitars, drums, keyboards, amps, ukuleles and other instruments, as well as rentals, repairs, classes, accessories, lessons and music books.
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 (904) 721-2307
- 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
“Thank you to Dan for immediately being so welcoming and informative on my new guitar and amp.”
“I came here to trade in some pedals I no longer used towards a new EVH 5150 Overdrive.”
“This is such a nice set up and has been a blast the past couple days.”
Brands they deal
What players say again and again
“This is such a nice set up and has been a blast the past couple days.”
“Although the realities of online shopping have hit them hard, they still carry the things you need at fair prices.”
From the reviews
I have been coming here for many years and I encourage you to do the same. Although the realities of online shopping have hit them hard, they still carry the things you need at fair prices. Please support them! You can't play a guitar that you order from a website like you can here!
Super nice guys helped me out when I brought in a guitar I just bought. It had some issues and they fixed it up real nice. I’ll definitely be going to this guitar center again
Thank you to Dan for immediately being so welcoming and informative on my new guitar and amp. This is such a nice set up and has been a blast the past couple days. I enjoy the layout of the store and the wide selection of instruments and brands they have.
Awesome 1st experience. My son and I was there for a replacement guitar string. The staff was very accommodating, the prices were awesome, and he very much enjoyed the fact that the atmosphere was mellow and that he could test the display instruments without a hovering staff.
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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