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Randolin Music Store and Guitar Repair in Burlington (215 College St, VT 05401)
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New, used and vintage string instruments and unusual instruments from around the world, including hand drums, harmonicas, tin whistles. We also custom build ukes, mandolins and other string instruments, including Randolin Brand electric and acoustic mandolins and violins, and cuatros.
Randolin Music Store and Guitar Repair is located in Burlington (Vermont state) on the street of 215 College St. If you want to ask about something we recommend contacting this place by phone. The Phone number is +18028653890. You can get more information from their website: http://www.randolin.com/. The coordinates that you can use in navigation applications to get to find Randolin Music Store and Guitar Repair quickly are 44.476956, -73.211343. Scroll down to find out opening hours, reviews and other important information about Randolin Music Store and Guitar Repair.
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Max
Great experience, knowledgeable and thorough staff. Instrument selection is small but superb quality. I was impressed with some of the vintage restorations (having checked them out on their website first). This place is for the discerning musician/consumer - it's not guitar center! I walked in with a budget and left with a really unique baritone acoustic guitar.
11.2021Maxine
A sweet small store. Lots of high quality instruments from ukuleles and mandolins to guitars, custom instruments, and unusual finds. The owner is extremely knowledgeable and helpful. I was able to drop off a banjo for repair and bought chord books for my ukulele and mandolin. Highly recommend this shop for everything from strings, repairs and quality instruments.
09.2021Colin
Awesome music shop. Such a great collection of string instruments and such wonderful service. Great vibe. The way a music shop should feel. Thanks for being in town and for taking my guitar for a quick fix when I dropped in.
09.2020Nick
Very unique string instrument/guitar shop. Owner was welcoming and offered input where wanted. I have come back for a few years and bought both a mandolin and violin which I am very happy with. Just off of Church Street it's a great stop during a stroll through South Burlington. Up the stairs its a bit hidden but well worth it.
09.2019Bungalo
Ive been coming here for a few years now whenever i have issues with my guitar because i know that im in good hands. Theres not one place around id rather go. Nowa the owner has always been fair and accommodating to my needs and even caring as I came in upset one time and without any indication he asked me if I was doing all right and he lent me an ear.. he is a truly good man and a fair business owner. I recommend this place all the time to anyone who is in need of any kind of repair to their instrument or if they're looking to maybe purchase a new instrument. There is often a selection of instruments you would not find elsewhere in your average guitar shop as well. If you're reading this you have found yourself an honest review from an honest man about an honest business. I am satisfied and grateful every single time I leave Randolin!
09.2019Ryan
Noah is not what I would call the immediately warm and fuzzy type, but if you're looking for someone who's knowledgeable about strings and will be able to help you pick and instrument or fix one, he's your guy. I don't have comprehensive knowledge of every music shop in town or Greater Burlington, but I've been playing since age 7 and feel confident in my saying that this guy is on the level and good at what he does! Can't comment personally on lessons at Randolin, but if you're looking for hearsay, I've heard that they're great here.
09.2019Alex
I recommend Randolin Music. This is a great place to bring your guitar or other string instruments for repairs or modifications. The owner is very knowledgeable and charges fair prices. I have purchased instruments, songbooks, and strings here as well and I've always gotten a good deal!
09.2019Andrew
Strongly don't recommend! I too bought an instrument here that is worth less than half of what I had paid. The guitar had significant signs of use but played okay. After buying it I contacted the makers to find out the year it was made and turns out it was there most basic model when the owner had talked it up so much as a high level guitar. I also then found out that it was being sold other places for half of what I paid. I contacted the owner and he tried refuting what the guitar makers had told me as well as the information I had found. There is no justification for anyone to sell a product for double what it is worth and say that I should bargained for it to drop the price. Instead how about you ask a fair price for your goods that are representative of how much they are worth. Don't make the same mistake I did! In response to the owners comment: The guitar makers are in spain but the representative I talked to was from California U.S.A and the figure I was quoted was in DOLLARS!! It also doesn't matter if I asked for a hold on the guitar (which I never did!), how about you stop making excuses for all the negative responses you get on your business and realize maybe you need to change something. All you have to do is look at his Google rating/reviews and you will see all the reasons why not to give this man your business.
09.2018Roger
I purchased a 1972 Martin D28 from this store last year for $2,300. It has given me nothing but trouble. The bridge recently began to come unglued from the soundboard and so I took it to a repair shop in Maryland (Appalachian Bluegrass, which is a great guitar shop by the way, with HONEST reps). The repair shop told me that the bridge is not from the original guitar (Randolin representative made no mention of this), the braces on the back of the guitar are coming unglued and rattling (not something you'd expect to see happen in a guitar a year after it's been sold), the neck has been reset (again, no one at Randolin informed me of this) and that the frets are totally worn out and uneven--I have barely played the guitar since I've had it. In short, the guitar is a disaster and I will be lucky if I can get even a quarter of what I paid for it. I'm the kind of person who always tries to give someone the benefit of the doubt but in this case there are two options: 1) The store honestly did not know it was selling me an instrument in terrible condition, in which case the repair technicians are completely incompetent. 2) The store knowingly sold me an instrument in terrible condition, in which case the persons who own it are dishonest, untrustworthy and fraudulent. Neither of these two options is what you're looking for in a business establishment. Clearly, I'm far from the first person to have this experience with these folks. I never write reviews so you know I'm pissed to have taken the time to write this one. Do yourself a favor and buy your musical instrument anywhere but here. Update 7/26/17: I'm adding to what I wrote before. The owner has some nerve with the reply he provided. First of all, this idea of "you buy an old guitar, you buy an old guitar" is just further evidence of why no one should do business with this store. It's completely false. I you buy an old guitar from Appalachian Bluegrass, they're going to make sure that the product they're selling you is up to snuff and they're going to disclose to you any clear modifications or shortcomings that the guitar may have. The owner at Appalachian Bluegrass said it was obvious to anyone who has a clue about guitar repair that the bridge was not an original Martin bridge and that it was obviously installed by a hack. So, either you guys at Randolin are clueless, or you're dishonest. I suspect it's the latter. Secondly, he said the braces were rattling inside the soundboard so bad that you could stick a knife underneath them. And in fact, he provided a demonstration of this for me. He said no guitar, especially a Martin, should ever have that kind of problem and he said that it would not have developed to the point that it had in the time I've owned it. Again, this is pure negligence on the part of Randolin guitars. And then this guy's been caught red-handed and he has the nerve to offer these weak excuses and try to put it on me. It shows you what kind of business he's running. Stay away from this establishment.
09.2017James
Nowa always does excellent repair work with my musical gear. He installed a new bridge and pickup on my upright bass and it is playing and sounding fantastic. He's set up at least 8 of my guitars and basses and he's fixed a bass that multiple different musical repair shops said was "unfixable" by replacing the truss rod and reattaching the neck. He also put together a broken necked guitar I have and it looks and plays fabulously. He is a great guy and very skilled at his cradles vhe is efficient and often will fix guitars for me same day on the spot. His store if fun with great inventory and I've also bought great instruments from him as well.
09.2017