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| - Phoenix is a small town when it comes to music. I moved here from Lansing, MI, a town of less that 300k, and there are more music stores there I think. Sad for Phoenix, but lucky that there are some good places to go like Milano to make up for some of the loss.
I came here with a friend looking for a new acoustic guitar. The staff was very helpful and patient, the selection was okay, not overly impressive. They carry instruments of all kinds for all kinds of players, so the store is overrun with school kids and amateur rockers alike. Things can be a little crazy inside.
The location is great, right in sleepy downtown Mesa. The store is huge and laid out in a sprawling, messy fashion that takes a bit of time to find where what you're looking for is.
For guitars, they have a pretty good selection of average instruments, nothing to write home about. They seem like a dealer in Dean and Takemine for the most part. I think their bread gets buttered by band instruments for high school kids, so the guit dept. is lacking, but not without a few winners. I think it is possible to find a good deal on a good guitar in the under $1000 range here. They also gave a fair trade in for my buddies guitfiddle, but insisted that he had to spend a ton of cash to make it worthwhile to them.
If they were anywhere else they would have to try harder, but for Phoenix they pass muster.
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