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Stutzman's Guitar Center
4.9 ★★★★★ 177 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Rochester, New York
Store offering acoustic and electric guitars, banjos, mandolins, and other instruments, plus repairs.
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
- Today see hours ·
- Phone (585) 352-3225
- Website stutzmansguitarcenter.myshopify.com
Hours
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Friday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
What's on the wall
“I bought my acoustic guitar there 37 years ago, took it in to have it looked over and get it appraised.”
“They also have electric guitars and amps.”
“If you are looking to purchase your 1st guitar or mandolin or bass etc.”
“They have done repairs on both guitars and amps and the work was good and reasonably priced.”
“Personalized hel from Dave Stutzman, which resulted in my buying a great used guitar.”
“And the fact if you buy a guitar there you get a free setup and certain services with your purchase for a lifetime!”
“If you are looking to purchase your 1st guitar or mandolin or bass etc.”
Brands they deal
“They turned the 30 year old Epiphone I had as a kid into the best playing guitar I own.”
What players say again and again
“And the fact if you buy a guitar there you get a free setup and certain services with your purchase for a lifetime!”
“Generations of knowledge and expertise reside here where you can't get that at a big box store like guitar center with some teenager who knows how shred but no wisdom.”
“I traded a guitar with them and they were extremely fair in giving me great value for my instrument.”
“Stuzman's is great for beginners and professionals looking to avoid the chaos of the House of Guitars and the "would you like to apply for a guitar center credit card today?”
From the reviews
There is never a bad time to stop in at Stuzman's. Locally providing a small selection of high quality stringed instruments, unique selection of used/vintage amps and instruments, extremely knowledgeable staff, and reasonably priced repair and restoration services.
Stutzman's Guitar Center is a great little gem in the Spencerport / Greece area. I recently had 2 acoustic guitars repaired by the excellent Luthiers there. I was extremely pleased with the quality of the work as well as the overall price of the labor.
This was the first music store that my father brought me to when I was probably seven or eight years old (I'm 30 now). I recently purchased a used acoustic guitar. I brought it home only to find out there were some issues with the pickup. Clearly, this was partially my own fault for not plugging it in at the store.
What a wonderful honest service I just had at Stutzman's Guitar Center. I bought my acoustic guitar there 37 years ago, took it in to have it looked over and get it appraised. Dave was so kind and immediately took care of lowering the action just a bit for me and honored the lifetime warranty.
Selling or trading gear at Stutzman's Guitar Center
Stutzman's 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 Stutzman's Guitar Center
Reviews and the store's own info mention lessons at Stutzman's 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 on hand for exactly this reason.
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