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Midtown Music
4.7 ★★★★★ 35 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Biddeford, Maine
Music store offering sales and rentals, plus lessons, repairs, and assembly.
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 (207) 282-0254
- Website midtownmusicmaine.com
Hours
| Monday | 12–5 PM |
| Tuesday | 12–7 PM |
| Wednesday | 12–7 PM |
| Thursday | 12–6 PM |
| Friday | 12–5 PM |
| Saturday | 12–5 PM |
| Sunday | Closed |
What's on the wall
“A quaint, but we'll utilized space used for lessons, sales, and keeping a great stock of popular products and instruments.”
“Also the mic setup I got is great, super great customer service!”
“A quaint, but we'll utilized space used for lessons, sales, and keeping a great stock of popular products and instruments.”
“So he called around to other store to locate the book we needed for a beginer alto saxophone player!”
Brands they deal
“My Paul Reed Smith needed some TLC as my chords were not ringing as true as I like.”
What players say again and again
“Great prices, and great gear for all levels of playing.”
From the reviews
Family reunion in town and did not fly in with guitar. Rented a Oscar Schmidt acoustic lefty for a few days; was in excellent shape, action set perfect, and was very reasonable to rent. Thank you! Some awesome memories made with music and song.
Just discovered that I have a local music store nearby. As I'm out gigging this summer for the first time, inevitably, something comes up that I need: a guitar cable, strings, etc. Online is fine, but it's nice having something 5 minutes from the crib.
I am very glad to have found this store. Both times I have been there Daniel was extremely helpful. Never any upselling and each time I leave I feel like I was well taken care of.
Great place! I dreaded buying a guitar for my daughter's high school guitar class but we went to Midtown Music and it was painless. Nick helped us out and explained sizes and explained the rental option, however the price was so reasonable we just purchased it outright.
Selling or trading gear at Midtown Music
Midtown Music 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 Midtown Music
Reviews and the store's own info mention lessons at Midtown Music. 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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