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.

Guitar repairman to the (rock) stars.

No. 8a is full of gifts aimed at the traveler who loves design and abhors nostalgia.

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.

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.