New York Magazine

Billy Corgan, Billy Crudup, and the Hives come to this rock-star hangout for discount vintage and used guitars.

Pros and novices alike come to this low-key shop for new, used, and vintage electric and acoustic guitars.

Village guitar shop with retro electric models, repair services, and lessons.

At this famous shop you can buy a fiddle for $1,500 or for $3.5 million.

Restless high-school kids across America know the multifarious recreational potential of musician superstore Guitar Center, and the Manhattan branch—the largest on the East Coast and the second-largest in the whole chain—is no exception.

High-quality, mostly electric guitars from smaller manufacturers.

A storied sheet-music shop across the street from Carnegie Hall

East Village native Keshav opened this eponymous Eastern instrument shop in 2002, offering an impressive collection of Mukta Das’s tablas (Indian drums) and shruti boxes, one-chord accordions popular for Shabbat services.

This clubby neighborhood fixture has new and used vintage guitars and amps to test out.

This Cobble Hill toy store is packed with stuffed animals, board games, party favors, and more.

A tiny Lower East Side guitar shop with a big-name clientele.

Rudy’s Music in midtown, whose clientele over the past 32 years has included Mick Jagger and John Mayer, expanded to Soho in December 2009.

Rare and remarkable vintage guitars.

Turntable Lab, a skinny hall of a store on a quiet stretch of East 7th Street, attempts to live up to the implied promise of its name: one-stop shopping for D.J.s.

This East Village custom-guitar shop is the renowned German brand’s first New York location.