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GuitarTex in San Antonio. Very friendly people and extremely knowledgeable. For a small shop, they have a good inventory with some some exemplary instruments.
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I played the bassoon in high school and remember going to Chuck Levins with my teacher to meet a local oboe professional and Mr. Levins. That must have been in the early 70's - glad to hear they are still a quality store!
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The Music Outlet is in Sevierville TN. It’s about an hour drive from where I am in WNC. Well worth the drive if your in the market for a new Martin ,Gibson or Taylor...or other
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Guitar Center
Winter Park Florida Great store
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Bill's Music in Peabody Mass.
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My favorites in the Bay Area are Gryphon (haven't been there in a few years, something I hope to remedy when this whole covid thing winds down) and Guitar Showcase in San Jose - they have a really nice acoustic room.
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Music Folk in Webster Groves (suburb west of St Louis), is always helpful.
Magnolia Music in Gulfport, MS was always great, but I haven’t been there in 15 years. I’m moving to upstate SC next week and I’ll be looking for a new favorite first store in the Greenville area.
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I've never been to the Roseville one. How's it compare to the Burnsville location?
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Which is better of Schoenberg and Gryphon?
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First met Bob when he owned a small shop in Leucadia (Traditional Music). The CVR location was Nirvana!
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I live in the UK, so I don't have a great list of US based dealrs, but I talked with Stan Jay at Mandobros two or three times and felt the better for it - lovely guy.
I once visited The Music Emporium in Lexington which impressed me. Also Hill Country guitars then in Wimberley. Impressed me. I never went to Mass Street Music but did have the pleasure of meeting Jim Baggett when I went to meet up with Bill Collings - two great, enthusiastic guys, entertaining, informative and great friends. I'd love to visit George Gruhn and Carters as long a that guy who played vintage guitars in a studded leather jacket stays away (gone to work for Gibson?) We lost a lot of good specialist guitar stores in the UK in 2007/8 including the Acoustic Centre in London where I bough my first Collings guitar, and Guitar Junction in Worthing (which was a dream, run by a good friend back then) and surviving - Guitar Village (although their stock has shrunk markedly, and of course AGF sponsor Trevor Moyles at The Acoustic Music Company - with whom I've done quite a lot of business over the years. I'd like to go to TFOA in the Nederlands too. I'd love to visit
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They have modernized the store quite a bit - years ago you would never guess this rather unattractive cinderblock building was home to the single largest music retailer in the US - and they kept that title until GC collectively became bigger than they were. A few years back they really spruced up the main floor of the building, and last year they gave the exterior a nice face lift.
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Wrong question! What kind of wisdom can you get from Eric at Schoenberg vs. the Frank and the team at Gryphon? The answer is a ton!!
They are both high quality, and you can see their inventories on line.
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