Sound Beach Music

I’ve been coming here since I first started playing violin in the 90’s. Me and my family have always gotten our supplies from here and when I was a teenager I started lessons with Brian, who ended up buying the store. The staff here is always friendly and willing to help. Once I dropped my violin a day before a huge performance and broke the fingerboard– Brian had it fixed and ready to play the next day.

This place must have changed owners !!! I went in tonight to rent a violin for my 10 yr old son who is starting the 5^th grade. My 4 yr old sat at a kids sized drum set, there was a pair of drum sticks on the set and no sign saying not to play like there were on other drum sets in the store. He began to play on the drums when this middle aged woman with an accent came running over and ripped the drum sticks out his hands, and started yelling at him. If the store wasn’t packed with other kids I would have told her where to go. I left the store and called to speak with the owner who’s name I was told is Brian, after a few minutes of being on hold I was told he could not come to the phone and If I wanted to talk to him I would have to call him back tomorrow morning. This is not a child friendly store and I will be telling everyone I see in a very small town.

I’m a pro musician, and needed a guitar repair done quickly, so I checked out local repair shops and music stores in my immediate vicinity. Sound Beach Music was about the closest to me. I dropped in with my guitar and got a quick assessment of the problem — no guitar-​store tech nonsense, no upselling, just a simple, straightforward, and quite reasonable estimate. In two days my guitar was repaired, and the cost came in well under the estimate. As an added wrinkle, payment had to be made on my business partner’s credit card. The employee handling the sale was very pleasant and low key. He had me call my partner, who was out of state, then processed the credit card info and finished the transaction in less than five minutes. Try something like that at Guitar Center. A plus: I also bought a foot pedal for my keyboard, and a new guitar cable, and both were very reasonably priced. I can’t recommend this store highly enough. I will definitely be back.

I went there when I was in High School to purchase a drum kit as me and my buddies began a «garage band».
many many many years later I just started going back there again, as my interest in musical instruments transformed into Harmonicas, lol.
I’ve frequented Sound Beach Music only a handful of times in the past year, but I have received pleasant service every time. Upon my initial visit I spent a great deal of time speaking with the Store Manager about harmonicas and what to make for my initial purchase. Even though I took up a great deal of the Manager’s time, he was very amiable, personable, and helpful. He did not try to push off the most expensive item in stock on me, and he helped me find alternatives to the items he suggested. He neglected to whip out the bellows and give me a product demonstration of my new purchase before ringing me up (so I know i’m buying something that works!) but that may have simply been a slip of the mind. Every time since I asked him to put one of my items up to the bellows, they remember every time now to do so. (A device to push air through the harmonica, to ensure it is working properly)
I usually see plenty of high school age children sitting around the shop during after-​school hours, plugging away on a guitar that is connected to the amps on the sales floor, and I know that most lessons are conducted in private, so what I saw on the sales floor was simply product demonstrations and general customer service, an A+ in my book.
They have a fairly large staff, I usually see new faces every time I go in. Which makes sense, since they offer musical lessons in almost every instrument they sell.

Sound Beach Music located in Miller Place, NY, has been a musical oasis for our children and family over the years. Our experience with Sound Beach Music has included, but is not limited to the repairing of instrument (s), even after they were allegedly repaired by a lesser organization; reed replacement (s) sometimes last minute concert opening curtain to an oboe, tenor sax and soprano sax musician; music ordering for NYSSMA and beyond; and putting up with frustrated parents finding themselves in the mist of remedying all the above. Davies At Law * Timothy R. Davies, Esq.