Guitar shops worth the trip in Indianapolis

The shop is one of the few in the Midwest where pedal steels, accordions, and Irish tenor banjos sit alongside guitars, basses, drums, amps, and PA systems. It carries both new instruments from brands such as Martin, Gretsch, Epiphone, and Sire and vintage and used pieces from the 1920s through the 1970s, plus on-site luthier and repair service. It is also the store that sold “Amos”, the 1958 Korina Gibson Flying V shipped new to the shop on May 29, 1958 and now owned by Joe Bonamassa, who recreated the shop’s late-1950s rooftop photograph of it.

The Noblesville shop specializes in vintage electric and acoustic guitars spanning the 1920s through the 1960s, with named examples including a 1929 Martin, a 1957 Gretsch Chet Atkins, and a 1960 Gibson ES-330TD. Alongside sales it offers repair, restoration, and service for vintage instruments.

The store carries acoustic and electric guitars, upright and electric basses, mandolins, amps, and related accessories, with instruments of varying vintage streaming through. It rounds out its retail floor with repair service and music instruction.

The store sells new electric and acoustic guitars, basses, ukuleles, and banjos alongside amplifiers, effects, parts, and a buy-sell-trade used inventory. It also runs a full luthier bench for repairs, modifications, and fretwork, plus custom cable work and lessons.