Every store we list

Guildford's guitar institution, making musicians since 1964

Andertons has been selling instruments out of Guildford since 1964, and the catalogue is the biggest of any store here by a wide margin: guitars, amps, synths, drums and studio gear. Prices are in pounds and they ship from the UK, which is worth factoring in if you are ordering from elsewhere.

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One of the biggest catalogues in the business

Musician's Friend carries close to everything: guitars, drums, keys, live sound and studio gear, from entry level up. Worth checking against the smaller shops here, because the same product often sits at three different prices across this site. They ship within the US only.

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Broad instrument retail, long-running US shop

American Musical Supply has been selling instruments and pro audio for decades, with a catalogue wide enough to cover most of what a working player or a home studio needs. They ship within the US only.

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The brand's own store, direct rather than through a dealer

Fender selling Fender: Stratocasters, Telecasters, Precision and Jazz basses, amps, and the parts and accessories that go with them. Prices here are the manufacturer's own, which makes them a useful floor to measure every dealer listing on this site against.

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Interfaces, UAFX pedals and the plugin catalogue

Universal Audio build the Apollo interfaces most home studios aspire to, the UAFX pedals that put their amp and reverb models on a pedalboard, and the plugin catalogue behind both.

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Komplete, Maschine, Traktor and the Kontakt libraries

Native Instruments sit somewhere between an instrument maker and a software house: Maschine and Komplete Kontrol are hardware, Kontakt and the libraries around it are what most producers actually reach for.

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Studio plugins from Brainworx and the brands they carry

Plugin Alliance distributes mixing and mastering plugins from Brainworx and a long list of partner brands, including officially licensed models of hardware most studios will never own. Software rather than gear, listed here because it is bought the same way and compared the same way.

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Budget instruments, pedals and controllers, sold direct

Donner make the cheap end sensible: pedals, MIDI controllers, beginner guitars and electronic drums at prices that make experimenting with a new instrument a low-stakes decision.

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EART Guitar

Direct-from-maker electric and acoustic guitars

EART builds and sells its own guitars direct, without a middleman markup between the workshop and your case. Every listing here is real, current inventory read from their own storefront, not a scrape.

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Haze Guitar

Strings, cables and small amps at real prices

Haze carries the everyday gear every player restocks constantly -- strings, cables, small practice amps -- at prices that make it worth checking before you default to whatever's nearest.

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Eason Music Store

A long-running independent shop, broad catalogue

A long-running independent shop in Singapore carrying a broad instrument catalogue, from beginner gear to the specialist pieces bigger retailers stop stocking.

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Go Kalimba

Kalimbas and folk hand percussion

A specialist in kalimbas and related folk instruments -- the kind of niche catalogue that's easy to overlook if you're only searching for guitars and amps.

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Jackson Audio

Boutique pedal maker, direct storefront

Jackson Audio is a boutique effects-pedal maker selling direct. The catalogue is small by design, the way boutique pedal runs always are: short builds, high spec, no filler.

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Eminence Digital

Digital impulse-response packs for cab simulation

Eminence Digital sells impulse-response packs -- digital cabinet simulation profiles, not physical gear -- for anyone modelling amp tone without a mic'd-up cab in the room.

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Squaver

An independent WooCommerce storefront

Squaver runs on WooCommerce rather than Shopify like most of the family here, with a smaller, hand-picked catalogue.

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Folkcraft Instruments

Dulcimers and traditional folk instruments, built in Indiana

Folkcraft has been building mountain and hammered dulcimers for decades, alongside the strings, cases and parts that keep them playing. The kind of catalogue that exists nowhere else because almost nobody else makes these.

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Acoustic Guitar

Books, lessons and gear from the magazine's own store

The storefront attached to Acoustic Guitar: instruction books, songbooks, transcriptions and accessories, aimed at players who want to get better rather than just buy more.

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Jamstik

MIDI guitars and practice tools that plug into your DAW

Jamstik builds smart guitars and MIDI controllers designed for players who learn and record on a screen. Narrow catalogue, unusually specific: nothing else here does what these do.

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Play With Authority

An independent shop for players

A small independent storefront with a tightly chosen catalogue, the sort of shop that carries what its owner actually believes in rather than everything a distributor offers.

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