A Sound Choice is a locally owned and operated music store. Featuring sales and repairs of guitars, amplifiers and other stringed instruments, A Sound Choice also carries a wide variety of accessories for all instruments. The store offers lessons on guitar, bass, piano, drums, ukulele, banjo and mandolin. A Sound Choice also offers sales and installation of sound systems for houses of worship, schools, recreation departments and clubs featuring live music. The New Haven Advocate's Best of New Haven Readers' Poll named music store the "Best Place to Buy a Musical Instrument."
When Radio Shack first opened in Boston in 1921, it sold radio equipment to ship operators and ham radio enthusiasts. From a meager nine locations, until business mogul Charles Tandy purchased the store in 1963, Radio Shack has become a nationwide network of retail stores offering a diverse range of computer and electronic devices and equipment. With products ranging from batteries and electronic equipment to cell phones, mp3 players and televisions, this particular Radio Shack is a model location providing the same range of products and accessories customers have come to expect.
Music lessons are provided to children by Sandie and Joanna Petrulis in a friendly, well-lit studio where the child always comes first. Keys & Strings Music Studio offers music instruction for the viola, violin and piano. There are also various workshops available and yearly recitals.
Founded by the principal bassist of the Greenwich Symphony in 1994, this studio offers a large selection of stringed instruments for purchase as well as consignment, appraisal, rentals, repair and restoration. Atelier is especially skillful at judging the tone of an instrument and all work is done by the master himself. The Atelier is located in the Cos Cob Plaza next to the Riverside School of Music.
Middlesex Music Academy is conveniently located on Main Street in Middletown. The Academy provides private, one-on-one instruction for all instruments by professional teachers. They have a full line of guitars, drums, school band and orchestral instruments with rental opportunities available. Repairs for all instruments are available on site by professional repair technicians. The staff really makes choosing and learning an instrument a great experience
Located in Peacock Alley of Downtown Mystic is the eclectic Mystic Disc. It specializes in LP records and collectible records, with most of the records in the store by artists produced between the years 1964 and 1985. Throughout the store is a variety of vinyls. Trading and selling of records is offered. If it does not have what you're looking for in the store, it can be ordered.
Merle's Record Rack has been in Orange since 2003 and moved from its original location on Old Tavern Road to Racebrook Road in July 2009. Still the same friendly service, just a larger space. It has records, CDs and DVDs to meet almost everyone's taste in music. It also services video and audio equipment, even older equipment. It will transfer your old 8mm or VHS video to DVDs or LPs and tapes to CD. You won't believe how much better the quality. Have an old system or looking for a newer one? Merle's buys and sells used stereo systems.
Open since 1984, Ron's Guitars in Groton offers instruction in rock and roll, metal, jazz, blues and classical. It also offers group and vocal lessons.
Books-A-Million is a discount book retailer that also carries music, movies and magazines. Book selections include fiction and nonfiction, and sports, humor and music titles.
The area's largest retailer of quality new and used vinyl records, tapes and CDs, Replay Records is a music junkie's dream. This jam-packed store carries rare and remastered vinyl, from the 1970s to today's hottest hits. Whether you're on the hunt for a remastered copy of The Jim Hendrix Experience LP or are looking for some more modern tunes, Replay is the place to find it. With its walls plastered with vintage rock n' roll posters, Replay also carries a large selection of budget bin items, including $1 and $2 LP's, and 25-cent 45s. So whether you're in the mood for some Rolling Stones or Radiohead, spend some time browsing Replay's racks.
