Luthier Music Corp

I went in to buy a few beginner books on classical guitar and materials for my nails. The women at the counter told me repeatedly I should go down the block to guitar center in an insulting tone! I bought nail materials from them out of desperation. Had she been nice I would have spent time asking about cd’s to learn about classical music. She was so insulting I’ll never go back.
Should she read this review she should be informed that Guitar Center doesn’t carry any of the products she tried to send me to buy, and she is costing the store lots of money with her attitude. I try to support local shops, but won’t support this one.
She could have at least been helpful and directed me to Colony Music or one of the music stores in New York City that would have had the type of books I was looking for. Juliard’s book store had one of the books I was looking for in stock.
As an aside, The Classical Guitar Store in Philadelphia and Kirkpatrick Guitar Studio in Baltimore are 1000 times friendlier!

When asked polietely if they rented instruments, I was abruptly and harshly told, «NO WE DON’T RENT — NO RENT! NO RENT!» The was no listening or offer of support for a musician in need of a last-​minute replacement, no suggestions of «We can’t rent, but you should try X, Y, and Z. Good luck.» The only answer was «no» to everything I attempted to ask.
It is an excellent store, however a lesson in basic handling of customer inquiries would help a lot.

Great, friendly place that has a great selection of sheet music and guitars.

Beware!!!
I have been to this store at least five times.
This is the worst guitar shop in NYC, period. They are so unfriendly and I never felt welcome at their store. They have guitar non-​educated family staff working in there. They work with a grim on their faces and have an expression that they do not want you in there. They have no clue about instruments and they are so hesitant about letting you play one of their guitars. They just looked at me in a weird way and wanted me to leave. Not a great way to run business.
The other time I was looking for custom sized machine heads for my expensive classical guitar. They said that such machine heads do not exist and they would have to re-​drill the holes?! After that the owner sent me to Alex’ Accordion to modify the holes for the machine heads he sold me?!
He sent me to ACCORDION shop to modify my high-​end classical guitar! Wait a minute… something stinks.
I am wondering what planet these people arrived from, have no clue.
I was smart enough not to do re-​drill the holes as I found other people that make custom machine heads.
Also, the owner working in there is not so friendly as well. Never felt that I can take my time in the store and look for items of interests. Always felt rushed to leave. Felt like… grab whatever you need and get out of here.
Will never come again to Luthier and deal with these horrible people.
If you are looking for high-​end classical guitar, look elsewhere. People in this store have awful street ghetto mentality. Such a shame for a place that earned its name because of the past. I would not trust them for anything, not even for buying strings.
One of the worst music store experiences in NYC.

Pretty straightfoward, I needed the action on my classical guitar lowered/​adjusted and I needed the strings swapped out. Tony did a great job and had it ready for me the next day. I would come back here again to have adjustments on my guitars or have the strings swapped out.

This is a very nice «Mom and Pop» shop specializing in Latin American music, styles and instruments, with a great selection of classical guitars, ukuleles, charangos, and books and manuals on how to play all things Latin.

I had an option to buy a specific guitar at several places but I chose this place because I legitimately like the people who work here and I felt good about giving them the business. The place has the feeling to me of a «mom and pop shop» in my opinion.