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Guitar Center
4.3 ★★★★☆ 843 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Palmdale, California
Big selection of guitars as well as drums and keyboards and amps, plus guitar lessons. Helpful staff aid shoppers in finding musical 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 (661) 947-8887
- 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
“I went in to buy an acoustic electric guitar that I was wanting the person that helped me Drew Perkey was knowledgeable, professional and knew what I was looking for .”
“Those make up for the store being relatively small and trade in prices being pretty low.”
“Today, 3/26/26,Michael spent a great deal of time helping me locate a specific type of drum kit.”
“The workers are friendly, one even had a short convo with me about pianos.”
Brands they deal
What players say again and again
“I went in to buy an acoustic electric guitar that I was wanting the person that helped me Drew Perkey was knowledgeable, professional and knew what I was looking for .”
“Today, 3/26/26,Michael spent a great deal of time helping me locate a specific type of drum kit.”
From the reviews
Always such a great experience to stop by at guitar center. Thank you Joey G for being excellent at customer service, literally the whole team is awesome. We've purchased a few instruments and musical gadgets from different guitar center locations and we have always had such a good experience however this particular…
I was looking for a particular guitar model and even though the are multiple Guitar Centers close to where I live, Palmdale was the only one who had the model I was looking for in stock. I live about an hour and a half away, but I like to try guitars before I buy them so I made the trek. Totally worth it!
For me, what makes a good guitar shop are the people who work there. Are they knowledgeable, friendly, capable, and can they find the equipment I need when I need it. The current staff at Guitar Center go above and beyond in all these aspects. They are a great team, and work hard to help me whenever I need it.
I went in to buy an acoustic electric guitar that I was wanting the person that helped me Drew Perkey was knowledgeable, professional and knew what I was looking for .
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.
