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Guitar Center
4.3 ★★★★☆ 852 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Merrillville, Indiana
Instruments, amps, and sound equipment from top brands, plus repairs and rentals.
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 (219) 794-1330
- 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
“Had an amazing experience with the customer service and online used section of this GC.”
“🎸 Took my acoustic guitar in to be restringed and tuned.”
“Started taking guitar lessons from Jerry and it's been really great!”
“Found my Arturia Key Lab Essentials 49 here for my drill, synth, trance, r&b, and chiptune creations.”
Brands they deal
“I had my eyes on a 2019-Present Gibson Explorer for a while now and I found a used one in “excellent” condition at the perfect price online.”
What players say again and again
“He was very patient with all my questions and got another employee to offer an opinion on the guitars playability.”
From the reviews
Unrelated to a recent guitar purchase, but my husband and I love going to any stores with guitars and we probably stop in this one every other or every weekend just to check things out/shop, and everyone who works here is always super helpful/friendly PLUS I’m due with our first born son soon and they surprised us…
Great selection, but the thing that really stands out at this location is the staff, they're always super awesome and helpful, never pushy.
Very helpful staff! Got all the info I needed for my purchase! Had to take some guitar pics!
Thanks very much to the guys who helped me with my selection of a used Cort M1200. I called right before closing Sunday June 4 and picked up the guitar June 6. I can't remember the guys name who helped me then but it's probably in the sales record. (#20865070).
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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