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Guitar Center
4.3 ★★★★☆ 720 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Mobile, Alabama
Music-equipment chain store featuring guitars and lessons, along with keyboards, drums and lighting 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 (251) 343-9700
- 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
“super super helpful, and playing in the acoustic room was awesome.”
“Eric is the man when it comes to setting up my basses.”
“We bought the strat, bag, and amp here.”
“I have had 2 of my used basses set up and they are perfect.”
“Guitar lessons as well although $100 is too much for me.”
Brands they deal
From the reviews
This is an easy sell...I'm a musician so i enjoyed my time playing guitars and browsing the many items available. it's a smaller guitar center but it was still fun. If you're into music, or just want to get started, give it a try. They are friendly and look forward to getting you started. They orivide lessons!!
The best Staff I swear, I come in at least 2x a week just to play on things that I yet to own,soon but untill thennnn 😉 😜 🎸 .. I want to be well versed on what does what ..they allow me to experiment ( Granted i do buy strings and things play well enough to keep it min and still wail .I never get hassled.
This is good. Even as bad reviews from the past few months may remain. They have changed seriously since then, I assure you. These are some of the finest people to ever grace a guitar center. I will thank them for the rest of my life.
Aaron and Myers were incredibly helpful and made the whole experience easy! They took the time to help me find the right guitar along with all the accessories I needed, and never made me feel rushed or pressured. Super knowledgeable, friendly, and genuinely cared about helping me make the right choice.
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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