Faller Music Co — Local services in Bennington

I walked in with a smile on my face and 15 years of experience playing the guitar and owning relics. Noticed a beautiful 1994 Fender Stratocaster. I asked very kindly if I could plug it in, as I wanted to hear and feel how it played prior to purchasing.

The owner told me I didn’t know what I was holding, I don’t know what I’m talking about, and that he didn’t want me to play it. I own guitars dating back to the 70s, and ironically was missing my ‘95 Strat that I sold a few months back.

I’ve literally never been treated this way by a shop owner. PSA, never buy a guitar before you hear and feel it, especially when he’s charging $1200 for “mint condition”.

You sell instruments sir, not art. Guitars are meant to be played. If you don’t want people to play it, you aren’t going to sell it. Just take it home and enjoy for yourself instead of lambasting patrons for standing too...

I do not recommend! Guy tells me he buys instruments, I barely got through explaining what I had and he shut me down saying he’s not interested. I would say thats not good business and fairly rude. Aside from that I don’t know this shop, never been probably never will but why tell me you buy instruments, I offered him a $400 percussion set told him I would sell it to him cheap told me not interested with aggression and hung up. I do not recommend. It was enough for me to feel embarrassed I called in the first place when I got off the phone with...

I brought in my alto saxophone last week because I started experiencing sudden problems with the octave mechanism. The owner of the shop immediately identified what the issue was and made a full beautiful repair that same day at an extremely reasonable...