Since 1971 Fretted Instrument Workshop has been your source for highest quality stringed instuments and repairs and restoration. Our selection of guitars, violin family, mandolins, banjos and ukes is the largest in New England. Vintage instruments a specialty.

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Downtown Sounds is a full-service musical instrument retail store founded in 1976 by Joe Blumenthal in Northampton, MA. We sell top brand names of guitars, amplifiers, drums, keyboards, PA and recording equipment, woodwinds, brass, string instruments and sheet music, as well as a full line of accessories for the instruments we sell.