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Guitar Center
4.3 ★★★★☆ 490 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Macon, Georgia
Shop, repair service, and outlet of a chain offering guitars, drums, and other instruments.
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 (478) 471-3520
- 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
“there's a great selection of guitars basses, drum and other assorted instruments Not to mention all the extra stuff that goes with all that”
“The instructors are great, and the entire staff is always so friendly and helpful !”
“there's a great selection of guitars basses, drum and other assorted instruments Not to mention all the extra stuff that goes with all that”
Brands they deal
From the reviews
They were taking very good social distancing precautions considering it's a smaller store. Staff was friendly and helpful. Nice selection of guitars and amps.
The ability to be out of town and stroll into a Guitar Center, when you love music and making it drums,horns,keyboards or my favorite Bass Guitar, this is the place to walk in and get some steam off, by some equipment and you may get lucky and have two or three, enthusias musicians that don't mind joining in a little…
The instructors are great, and the entire staff is always so friendly and helpful ! Electric guitar lessons and they are always helpful in working with our crazy schedules. The price is comparable to others. They have private rooms so that you really get that one on one attention during the lesson.
Some dude was playing a guitar for his girlfriend like his entire bloodline depended on it. Just as I was about to sprain an eyeball in a hard roll, one of the employees shut the guitar room door. Thank you, Guitar Center employee.
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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