We love Classic Violins Store!! Both our daughters were renting, and eventually we purchased…read moreviolins from them. What makes this shop special is the customer care as well as the quality of the instruments. We always feel excited to go there!! They connected us with great teachers. We also rent alto sax, always wonderful quality and service. They go out of their way to take care of customers. We have been customers for the past 15 years.

My daughter and I came into Classic Vlolins for the first time to rent a violin. We had a lovely…read moreexperience. They helped choose her correct size and got her all set up with everything she needs to begin lessons. Classic Violins is a warm and friendly place- we look forward to going back for all of our violin needs!

We were so lucky to find this wonderful small business. Ryan is so professional and did an amazing…read morejob for us. We've already called him back and will have him as a part of our rotation every year. Highly recommended!

I used them twice. Unfortunately, the second time I used them, the services were to be done in two…read moreparts. First, clean the tile. Second, he'd come back and do the grout. I stupidly paid for the entire service upfront and, well, you know where this is going. He never came back to finish the work. So, I paid $300 to have him wash the tile floors in the kitchen. Do not pay until ALL SERVICES have been performed.

I have been taking regular weekly lessons with Alvaro for the past month and after the first couple…read moreof classes I already noticed an immense change in my was production. Being a professional interpreter, voice is extremely important for me and finding my full voice potential is one of the professional challenges. Discovering my voice with Alvaro is turning out into an amazing professional revelation. He is very patient, very tactful pointing out mistakes and inaccuracies, at the same time he knows exactly in what direction he's leading me even though I may not understand it myself at the time. His professional manner, way of presenting things are very impressive. I very highly recommend Alvaro voice and vocal lessons.

TLE in Gurnee has been an amazing, welcoming, and trustworthy daycare for our little one over the…read morepast year. Starting at just under 5 months old, the teachers in the infant classroom are amazing. Lucy and Ann, thank you for taking care of our little one. As he grew, he advanced to a few other rooms, all with excellent experiences. All of the teachers and staff at TLE are great and our little guy now comes home singing songs and dancing along. It's great! We look forward to continuing his time at TLE and more memories to come.

We moved around a lot the past several years and have put my boys in a few day cares/preschools and…read moreTLE is the best. My boys love this place and their teachers (Jalissa-2 year olds and Erica R.-4 year olds) make you feel like you're dropping them off to family. Although all the staff members are nice, Jalissa and Erica stand out in the way they interact with the kids and with us. TLE is clean, secure, and have a curriculum that noticeably improves child academic development. One of the cool features TLE offers is an informative app that sends you status updates on your kids...if they ate their lunch, how much they ate, what they ate, potty training, when they nap, and pictures of their participation in math and science activities. If you are looking for a safe and fun place for your kids....this is it! I highly recommend this place and glad we found them.

I have to say that Sarah McIntyre is the absolute best when it comes to any type of vocal or…read moresinging lessons. I grew up very self conscious with a severe speech impediment, and Sarah instilled confidence and self assurance when I didn't even know I had any. She's patient, understanding, and absolutely brilliant. She took me from being afraid to have my voice recorded to me actually recording and singing my own songs and sharing them with people. I owe a lot to her for this, and I urge anyone reading this who is considering voice lessons of any kind to go and see Sarah, you will not be disappointed. Everyone else is just second rate, period.

I went last night for a group singing lesson with Highlife. It was very cool. It was a small group,…read moreso we got to specialize. The instructor was excellent and they had a wine and cheese tasting afterwards. Definately something out of the ordinary and they can make even the most tone def seem passable. I owe them one them for that!

Buying Jon a professional level guitar!…read more What an amazing experience. In this day of mass manufactured instruments, it is a rare and wonderful site to see someone who actually hand crafts guitars. Mr Brune has been doing this for many years - he proudly displays the first guitar he made as a teenager out of his parents dining room table... The space is really interesting - you walk into a hallway where he has his office. Off to the left is the display room. He has four or five display cases, each one with guitars of a different price range. He carries not only ones made by his hand, but those of other Luthiers from around the world. Each guitar he carries he knows the story and history. While my son was trying various guitars, he gave us a tour of his work shop. We walked through a door into the back and entered a tight space where he had guitars stacked up for repair and a few machines. This in and of itself was impressive. We said it was a cool workshop and he laughed and said this was not his workshop. We went through another door into an enormous space filled with lots of different types of wood and equipment. There were guitars in various stages of being built or repair. His son, a violin maker, shared the shop for some of his work. This was an incredible experience for anyone who has an interest in music.

He is a fantastic luthier and has incredible knowledge on acoustic guitars. He had fitted strings…read morefor my flamenco guitar. He recommended a mix of strings which made the guitar sound with clarity and depth.He also constructs his own guitars ranging from classical to flamenco. I have seen other types of guitars.He can also do work on your guitar if it has problems. Most classical/flamenco guitars have been manufactured in China or Japan. Even the spanish guitar companies like Cordoba famous with the gypsy kings and Manuel Rodrigues Spanish guitars outsourced their manufacturing to places like China. Yamaha flamenco guitars have their manufacturing base out in japan. There are luthiers (guitar craftsmen) that make real handmade guitars that sound so much better. RE Brune is one of those craftsman that can give you a real handmade guitar and not those guitar center chinese made ones. If you are a serious musician, consider RE Brune as a luthier for your new guitar.

What an amazing jeweler! I needed my mom's engagement ring resized so I could wear it again. I was…read moreworried that the band was too thin from over 50 years of wear and tear. They assured me it would be good as new! They were right! I am over the moon with how beautiful it turned out! Thank you for taking such good care of my most precious sentimental piece I own!!

Some time ago we brought our $10,000 + Piaget watch to Timothy Grant Jewelry in Lake Zurich, IL for…read morea simple battery replacement. Although we did not know it at the time, the person who helped us broke two of the four screws that hold the back of the watch on. The person then handed us a small plastic bag containing the parts that used to be the watch. She said we would have to send the watch somewhere to be fixed. We then wrote a review of the incident on Yelp. A representative of Timothy Grant Jewelry called and asked us to bring back the bag of watch parts for repair. We came back with the bag and Timothy Grant Jewelry "repaired" the watch and asked us to take down the Yelp review, which we did. We paid for the new battery and left the establishment. This month the watch needed a new battery. We took the watch to a reputable jeweler. When he opened the watch to replace the battery, he told us that 2 of the 4 screws that hold the back to the watch are broken and the heads of the screws were glued in to present the appearance that the watch is whole. We then attempted to communicate with Timothy Grant Jewelry to resolve our issue. There has to date been no response from Timothy Grant Jewelry. We have had three negative experiences, first he broke the screws that held our watch together and handed us a bag of parts that used to be our watch, second he claimed he fixed the watch but fooled us with a fake repair by gluing the heads of screws to the watch, third he would to respond to us in any way to resolve the issue.

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