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Musical Instruments Services
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Academy of Music / Little Italy
The Academy of Music stocks humble but comprehensive selection of guitars, pianos, clarinets, saxes and recorders, priced to sell, with classrooms in the back or upstairs where budding virtuosi learned...
Allegro Music / Avenue and Lawrence
Allegro Music has been selling, renting, and repairing instruments since 1971. Located at Avenue Rd and the 401, they offer a wide selection of guitars, keyboards, drums, wind instruments, string...
Capsule Music / West Queen West
Capsule Music is a temple of twang - three cramped rooms loaded to the ceiling with guitars with f-holes or candy-apple race car finishes, and amps in battered tweed. Old...
Cask Music / Leslieville
Cask Music is a boutique music store specializing in guitars, basses and amplifiers. Brands include Les Paul, Fender and Ibanez. Some guitar and bass accessories are also available. Check the...
CJC Music / Markham
CJC Music is a tiny strip mall shop with lots of musical offerings, if not totally apparent when first walking in the store. There are hanging rows of acoustic and...
Gary Armstrong Woodwinds / Parkdale
Gary Armstrong Woodwinds has been in business for 35 years at locations all over the west end. Armstrong arrived in Parkdale a few years ago where he sells mostly clarinets...
George Heinl and Co. / Church Wellesley Village
George Heinl and Co. has walls on the main floor showroom covered with signed pictures going back decades - a testament to the loyalty professional customers have for this stringed...
Long & McQuade / Bloorcourt
Long & McQuade has branches all over the country, but its Bloor Street store is the mothership, sprawling over most of a city block, with a storefront for everything you...
MOOG Audio / Queen West
MOOG Audio is the only purely digital age store in Toronto, selling vinyl and DJ discs alongside turntables and studio gear for the "made it on my laptop" artists out...
Musideum / Queen West
Musideum, with its careful displays and dramatic lighting, makes it easy to forget that it's a store, and that the exotic instruments - kotos and koras, shenais, santurs, tablas, hurdy-gurdies,...
Paul's Boutique / Kensington Market
Paul's Boutique is the sort of place you go to equip your prog-folk math rock jam band. The ghost of Church St. pawn shop legend Richmond's Trading Post has returned...
Remenyi House of Music / Annex
The Remenyi House of Music stares the Royal Conservatory of Music in the face across Bloor Street, so it's no surprise that it caters to a more classically-oriented customer, with...
Ring Music / Annex
Ring Music offers a concise guitar shopping experience for serious players impatient with endless walls of instruments. The chaff-free selection is boiled down to the basics - playable models by...
Robert Lowrey Piano Experts / Bayview and Leaside
Robert Lowrey's name is on the side of grand pianos rented for professional recitals all over the city - one afternoon when I wandered the upstairs showrooms, the nine-and-a-half foot...
Six String Garage / Kensington Market
Six String Garage opened in Parkdale in May. The shop sells a modest selection of mostly affordable instruments up front, services and builds guitars in the back, and hosts classes...
Sound Post / Yonge & College
The Sound Post is found in an old house, tucked behind the hospitals, university and government buildings of the Discovery District. It's a one-stop shop for string players. Catering to...
St. John's Music / Bayview and Leaside
St. John's Music has been selling instruments in Canada for over 80 years. They offer a wide range of instruments to either buy or rent. They also boast a repair...
Steve's Music / Queen West
Steve's Music is a Queen West institution with cavernous, guitars hanging in ranks like shiny, multicoloured bats, and amps of every size and wattage squatting beneath them like stalagmites. There...
Twelfth Fret / Danforth
The Twelfth Fret on the Danforth is a shop that takes you back in time, as the electric instruments give way to acoustic guitars, then dobros, lap steels, banjos, bouzoukis,...

