Rich Baca

Review of Guitars Etc.

My family and I moved to Longmont about a year and...

My family and I moved to Longmont about a year and a half ago. We are very excited to have found Guitars etc. Todd and his team have been very helpful in selecting both electric and acoustic guitars from a very wide range of brands and prices. We have bought four new guitars this past year. I feel we could have played every guitar in the store prior to making any selection. You don t really need to even be in the market for a guitar to play them here. Just ask - it is never a problem to play the instruments in the store.

I am at the store a couple days a week for lessons with my kids and for myself. During this time I see many people come and go. I see regulars that are comfortable taking a guitar of the wall, plugging in, and jamming for a while. I see many other s seek help from the staff to get set-up before playing. All of these option seem to be regularly available at Guitars etc. I also see folks just come-in to browse and ask questions about the equipment or make purchases from a very nice variety of instruments, accessories and other music equipment, including rentals. This is a legitimate small business so there are not employees standing around in each department waiting to serve every person within the first 15 seconds who walks through the door. If you are a box store person or Internet shopper who needs this type of attention, perhaps your patience or ego may not be well served here. But, if you are about supporting small business you make new friends with common interests, be happy to work with the team here, and definitely become a regular customer.

Lastly my son, daughter and I each take guitar lessons and my daughter also takes violin lessons - we could not be happier with the quality, flexibility, and styles of the teaching methods we have been offered. Each teacher has been top notch, has many years of experience, and been very open to the very different playing goals we each have.