Just a fantastic experience!…read more Restrung a new Dean for me - the factory strings were not what I am used to playing. Craftsmanship is fantastic with multiple checks and equipment to ensure proper tuning. I did not have a hard case so he was kind enough to restring it for me while I waited. Tom is a really cool and knowledgeable guy to talk to - and has some really awesome gear to look at while he works. He works out of his house, and has a small basement studio repair shop. Fair prices. Attention to detail. Quality work, and very meticulously careful with your instrument. What else can you ask for? Anyone in Akron should check him out!

From the owner: Been playing guitar for over 30 years and really enjoy working on guitars and basses. I perform…read morefull setups, maintenance and small repairs to guitars, and basses. Electric and acoustic.

My daughter got a trombone here today, and it was a great experience! The salesperson was very…read morefriendly and helpful, and didn't try to pressure us into anything we couldn't afford like some different stores have tried on me in the past. We got everything we needed and it was an easy, pleasant experience.

Great bunch of people to work with. The made getting my new cello a breeze!!…read moreEveryone wore a mask as they sterilize every instrument using UV light. So cool

They were working on my guitar. They closed the store and I never got my guitar back. I called them…read moreand they said tough luck.

The staff was nice and friendly. They have a good selection for the size of the store. Didn't have…read moreany problems picking out and purchasing my instrument and for an item that wasn't in the store I made a catalog order through them and picked it up the about a week later. Although I'm not planning on taking any, I also saw they offered various music lessons.

Dan and team have worked on many of my guitars and they are the best luthiers around! Highly…read morerecommend

I had Vintage L-OO refinished here a few years back. Theyre not the same as they once were when…read moreVirgil Lay was there. I would take another vintage or valuable acoustic there again.

These guys are awesome and great to deal with. I will be a returning customer for sure!read more

I mean, come on! With so few music stores around, especially music stores that don't deal with…read moreanything other than school band service, A Max is simply tremendous! The selection is great, and they're expanding. The customer service is beyond anything you see anywhere else today. I was just stunned at how good they were as soon as I walked through the door! I'll also add that they will cater to almost any kind of musician, at any age, for any purpose! You just don't see that anymore! I highly recommend making the drive if you're a tad outside the area. Keep in mind, it's a small business and, if they're busy, it might be a second or two until they get to you but, believe me, they know you're there and can't wait to actually talk to you! Keep doing it A Max! You're the old school music store we need back in all our neighborhoods!

Sadly, Peter Horn passed away at least four years ago. I had the honor of having him work on a…read morecouple of my violins. But even more importantly, I sat and listened to him talk about life, his beautiful family, his time in Germany during the Second World War . His compassion, honesty, & humility left a deep impression. It was only a few hours but I felt like I had known him forever. He made you feel welcomed.

You will curse me, as you stand in front of this modest home, on a modest street in this often…read moreimmodest little town, thinking, "There is NO way this is the right place. NO way there's a violin shop in this or in any other structure within a hundred miles of this one. You lie, sir. And, further, you choose questionable attire." I accept, in advance, your apology. For this is, in fact the right place. Peter Horn, a man of infinite wisdom, knowledge and ability, works and lives here. People speak of a "life's work" in a way that places it in another time, long ago, as if it were something we modernists might find unattainable, perhaps even unnecessary. Mr. Horn's life work is the stringed instrument. His shop is an old-world throwback, filled high and low, nook and cranny, with all things musically wooden. A phalanx of mahogany-dark double basses aside the entrance. Delicate violins in every state of manufacture and repair hang from the ceiling. Hand-crafted bows designed and built for your hand, only. My double bass had fallen into disrepair at the hands of a neanderthal; it needed just one thing. Everything. Peter Horn took out his ancient, tiny ledger book, on whose pages were written in a steady, thoughtful hand prices for all his services. I was floored. All this, and you're giving away your talents, for pennies on the dollar? I could not have imagined the complete resurrection of this instrument, but HE did. Now, the sound approximates the music of the spheres, nothing less. Please. Support this business. If an ivory-billed woodpecker, say, showed up in your yard, would you do everything you could to save it from extinction? Of course. So do the right thing. "I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet." -- Niccolo "Magic Fingers" Paganini

We were visiting from out of town and came in for a small repair. We were so happy with the fast,…read morefriendly service! Great selection, lovely staff - wish we lived closer!

I have had two "noteworthy" - no pun intended being a music store- experiences with Pellegrino…read moreMusic. Most recently, I bought a new (used) piano. I began my search at Pellegrino, because they have a large selection of used pianos. I came upon the Kawai model and knew it was the piano I really wanted. Turns out, Pellegrino had sold it as a new piano in the 1990s, and was now consignmenting it for the original owners. The instrument was in excellent condition, and their price was fair. Pellegrino also agreed to take and dispose of my old piano. Totally enjoying my new instrument. There was a significant problem, however, with delivery. I had measured my old piano, the space where it was going in my home, and my door frame. The "new" one was within an inch of the old piano size wise. There shouldn't have been any issue with delivery. The team they sent could not manage the weight of the piano, and almost dropped it ! Very thankfully, I was having new furniture delivered that same day, and the deliverymen from the furniture company actually were the ones who successfully brought the piano into my house. The men from Pellegrino did not even thank the furniture movers for their help. When I went back to Pellegrino shortly after delivery (to buy some sheet music) I informed the owner in person of what had happened with delivery. I got no response - not an apology or any sense of concern. I would have given five stars without the delivery hitch. It would have been four stars if the owner had taken some responsibility for what happened. It makes me wonder what would have happened if the piano had actually been damaged by their delivery team. So, overall, I am thrilled and pleased with the piano, but the customer service/delivery is disappointing. We also had previously rented/leased to own my daughter's clarinet through Pellegrino when she in middle school band. This was a totally successful experience, and we even upgraded to a better instrument as my daughter's skill level and dedication increased.

One of the best luthiers in this region…read more I have been going to their shop for years and having luthier work done. John, Susan, and staff are so good. I stopped taking my guitars to others shops regionally, that where endorsed by nationally high level players for setup. Yea...they where good but... John's setup was always a step above. John has has been able to give me back semi-playable so-sos, to a silky smooth sweetheart that I have a hard time parting with, even it not top of the line. Now my grandsons and step-son have requested some of my guitars to learn on. I learned on poor quality stock setup. I wanted to quit until I felt instrument setup correctly...and then I was hooked. I want them to know what a good guitar setup feels like versus factory milktoast setup, so that they want to keep on playing and upgrading to their playing style/level. Wadsworth Music facilities that path with both the service and the inventory selection to upgrade when needed. They seem to have heavy support for the local high school band members as well, which I tend to hold dear. (Sry...bias from being HS band member in my days. Would love a high & tight rudimentary snare drum, or 3 valve B-flat marching baritone if I could still blow solo blues. Alas, those days gone. Low-energy guitars will have to suffice.)

Wadsworth Music is my go to store. Just fantastic service, pricing and delivery. I live in…read moreMarblehead Ohio and make the trip to Wadsworth for guitar tune ups from their guitar tech John. This guy knows what he is doing. Online purchases are made easy!!

I had Wild Dutch work on my guitar years ago and would never go again…read more I told the owner up front on the phone that I wanted my 8 string guitar's intonation adjusted, pickup that I supplied installed, brass nut that I supplied filed and installed, but that I would need it done within 2 weeks as my band was about to record in the studio. I explicitly said that I could wait until later to do all this but that if they had the bandwidth I'd rather do it before recording. I was told they could. It took 2 months. First, they said that everything was so complicated because it was an 8 string, so it was going to take longer. This isn't some kind of fanned fret guitar or some exotic bridge, it's a cheap Ibanez RG8 with a fixed bridge. This is the easiest kind of guitar to intonate, regardless of the addition of two more strings. Second, the owner said that the brass nut wasn't going to be able to be filed because brass was "extremely hard", even though brass is an extremely soft metal. He said he was going to destroy all his files and that I'd need to buy him a new set. He strongarmed me into going with a Graph Tech graphite nut instead. I later took a bass guitar to another tech to get a blank brass nut filed and installed and the tech at that shop laughed at what John from Wild Dutch said to me about brass nuts. Other guitar tech said brass is soft and easy to cut, not much more work at all. Third, the guitar tech who was tasked by the owner with installing my Lace X-Bar pickup was completely baffled on how to physically insert it into the correctly sized neck pickup cavity, despite the fact that I had installed a matching Lace Deathbar in the bridge cavity already. He said it didn't fit and that he needed to buy a router and make a larger hole for the pickup to fit. I was flabbergasted at how he thought this but he was so insistent and wouldn't respond to reason. He supposedly waited weeks for this equipment to come in and then when I called for an update he finally told me that he was trying to fit the pickup in upside down and that's why it didn't fit. If you've seen what a Lace pickup looks like, you know that this doesn't make any sense, especially when one was literally already installed in the guitar. Just complete incompetence. The only good part of my experience was the fact that the intonation was nearly perfect, a service that I've been able to get for other guitars and basses from other techs for 1/3rd the price and within a couple days, not months. Finally, I also didn't get my original neck pickup back after getting my guitar worked on, something I didn't realize for a couple months. It's an 8 string guitar so the pickups are unlikely to get confused with any other one laying around in a shop, so I called to let John know I never actually got my pickup back, and he was incredibly aggressive and accusatory. Imagine treating a customer like that at your own job. He really made sure to leave me with a terrible impression after I had bent over backwards to be understanding about the timeline and inflated service cost for my guitar. I recommend everyone to stay away from Wild Dutch Guitar Hospital.

I had this guy work on a guitar and amp awhile back. The work was a hack job. I had to pay someone…read moreto reverse everything this guy did. I would not take my instruments any where near this place.

I have a guitar that had a hump in the neck around the 17th fret. It wasn't a fret issue but a…read moreissue with the way that the neck was set, fretboard, etc. He gave me a fair price to do the work and an estimate of two to three weeks. I called about two weeks in for the update. I had to call many times across several days to get a hold of him. I was told it would take another couple of weeks. Okay, no problem. This same pattern repeated for three months. When I finally got the guitar back, the work was in fact good. He had done a great job fixing the neck. However, I was starting to think that I'd have to get the law and lawyers involved to get it back. I wouldn't take anything there again no matter how good the work. It wasn't worth aggravation caused by his lack of professionalism.

Roger is the best. Wood, electronics, fine finishes: he does it all. Always a pleasure to visitread more