Reston Music – The Music Stores

Reston Music is a great place for music lessons. Instructors here are fantastic. Students here have a chance to join a fun band and that really drove up the motivation for our kids learn.
My middle boy is learning guitar and he has advanced A LOT in a short amount of time with lessons from Dean. My oldest boy takes drum lessons there from Joe and has also learned A LOT in a short amount of time. I took drum lessons once in place of my sick son and Joe was a great instructor even for me!
This place sells instruments as well but they have limited space to hold very much inventory. They can always order anything you need. They also rent instruments and we currently have a violin out on rent for our daughter.

My child has been taking music lessons there for about 2 years. The location is convenient. The teacher is competent. The seating area for parents is horrible. The staff seems to really suck up to some customers and to ignore others. Lack of competition, I guess. Drives down customer service. If you want a big Hello! be one day late with your monthly payment. It’s just blah. Wish I could recommend it, because it is a great thing to have a music store in the area, but I can’t.

Very strong teachers and very organized administration of the lessons. Good selection of sheet music and reasonable prices on a good stock of supplies (reeds, etc.) Their guitars and other display instruments could probably stand a bit of review and upgrade, they’ve got some cheap (not good value) stuff that isn’t on par with the rest of the operation.

Went in to look at guitars. Not much there. Mostly cheap stuff.

Great people… Gotta love the people there. They help you out a lot… and they’re very humorous. The prices are REALLY good.

I love this store. Friendly and knowledgeable staff and a nice range of qualified teachers to choose from. My children took lessons here and I bought a beautiful Korg digital piano that works great and rivals Yamaha. Thanks for being a great local, high-​quality store.

I went there to look for a travel guitar and a really nice staff member there first showed me Martin Backpacker. Then he showed me a Lag Auditorium slim body acoustic guitar, and I was sold! The owner was there and was very pleasant and offered a great price on the guitar. While I was there, many music students came for lessons. Buying local is great because adjustments can be made to an instrument, if necessary. The shop’s staff members seemed very concious about making adjustments to a customer’s satisfaction. What a great find!

I rented my child’s cello here a few years ago. At first, I was impressed with the owner’s depth of knowledge and the fact that he promised quick in-​house repairs when needed. After the cello’s sound post fell during the first week of school, however, I learned why others had told me to use a different store. I was told that it was a very busy time and that the repair would take a few days. After a week, I checked back in and was very rudely told it would be a while. I checked in every week for several more weeks before finally demanding and getting a loaner. By December, I realized that I was just better off going elsewhere, returned the loaner and canceled the contract. Other employees here, and at his other locations, have been perfectly lovely, but I have not had a positive experience with the owner since that very first visit. Based on my experience and after seeing the owner’s interaction with other patrons, I cannot recommend this merchant for anything besides uncomplicated supply purchases. Just be sure to carry cash, as they’ll send you to the ATM for small purchases.

JP is awesome — took my husbands Fender Stratocaster in to be restrung (it has a tremello that apparently makes getting the intonation correct a bit of a pain). I was figuring it would cost more than the guitar to get it done, but it totally wasnt, and he said it would be ready next day if I needed it. This is the second time I’ve been in there and JP is always courteous, knowledgable and just plain phenomenal! I’ll definitely go here for all my musician needs!
FOLLOW UP:
Guitar was done prior to date it was promised, he put elixir 11’s on it at no extra charge. Still have to pick it up, but I have no doubt that everything will be shipshape!