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Location: GA USA | I like the thread going now where people are telling the names of their favorite stores for buying Os. It's good to share a place that treats us well.
Here's my question/thought: What's your favorite store for trying out guitars?
For playing dream guitars, I like Midtown Music on North Druid Hills Road (actually pretty close to Samova's house). Not a single O (their entire acoustic section consists of about 8 Martins), but they've got serious vintage action for the pluckin', and don't mind if you spend all day playing every Les Paul and Gretsch in the joint. They don't bug you, just let you enjoy yourself.
Galaxy Music in Stone Mountain isn't bad either, and they will have half a dozen Os at a time. But selection in general is more low-end.
If you want Ovations, GC may be your best bet, sad to say. Is there any other place in Atl with a good selection, other than Sam's basement?
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The wood rooms at Union Square GC are nice. But honestly (sorry if this sounds pompus), I kind of like my own room better. Well, it's actually plaster board, but you know what I mean. A place that I could spend days in is Takahasi Ukulele Museum in Yokohama. It's called "museum" but it's a store and man oh man you never saw so many ukuleles in your life. Dave |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Does everyone else's GC have humidifiers running in the acoustic room all the time? Maybe it's just out West where it's dry, but ours is so bad it's hard to hear whether a guitar is any good or not. I asked them one time to turn them off or down so I could listen and they acted like I was nuts and no one had ever asked them to do that before. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | My local GC has 3 wood rooms. The big acoustic wood room is where all the Ovations and other cheap guitars are hanging. This room is humidified. Then there is the smaller Martin and Taylor room which is also humidified, but much quieter. But the idea is that these two are just storage and display rooms. The 3rd wood room is non-humidified and no guitars are actually on display in there. It's a quiet room for you to take a sample guitar into and play it without a humidifier humming away in your ear. Dave |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | My local GC is exactly the same.....
My favorite store for trying out guitars is Elderly Instruments in Lansing, MI. Allsortzsa flavors of ice cream!!!! And no salespeople pushin' 'ya, just wandering by from time to time asking "anyone want help?". No answer, and they go on...
Motor City Guitar in Waterford Township is good, also. Same policy with their salespeople.
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Location: Tampa, FL | I don't believe my local GC has a humidifier? We generally don't go that way here. |
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Location: Anchorage, Alaska | Mammoth Music in Anchorage is my favorite. Great folks, fantastic service, and it is never too loud in there to hear yourself play. I'm not sure if THEY keep the practice amps down or if the folks up here are just a bit more respectful of others in the store and keep the levels down on there own. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Three humidifiers running all the time in a small acoustic room at the local GC here. I asked a manager to turn them off or down once when I was trying out a guitar and he looked at me like I was crazy. I don't think anyone ever asked that before. We have the proverbial "dry heat" here, but I think 3 humidifiers is a bit much. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | This place.
http://www.wildwestguitars.com/
Top of the line guitars ONLY. Also has a bunch of 'test rooms' AND the rear area is a duplicate of a nightclub. |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Jas,modtown music is a great store.I once scored 25 original ovation solid body cases from them.They were mixed deacon,breadwinner,preacher,viper cases.They had bought the inventory of a store that had closed and the owner of Midtown music had the NOS cases in his basemant for several years.I shopped there for two years before we talked enough to figure out he had these cases.I bought all of them and the best part was almost every case had original owners manuals,stereo chords and warrany cards in them... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Too bad you didn't find Ovations in them like Nick just did. "Gee, Honey. I didn't mean to buy any more guitars, but I bought these cases and found guitars in them!" |
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