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."
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.
Macri School Of Music provides private guitar and piano lessons to beginner, intermediate and advanced students of all ages and abilities.
Gene Pino, a professional jazz and classical guitarist who has studied at the Berklee School of Music, has been providing lessons to aspiring guitarists in his home studio since 1992. In addition to jazz and classical guitar, he teaches electric and acoustic guitar, and electric bass. His home studio has a large song library and is equipped with digital recording equipment. Students are taught music notation, technique, chords, picking, scales and music theory and progress at their own pace.
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.