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I'm just up the road from you (Huntingdon).
Although it would be very dangerous for me (well, my wallet) if I lived closer to Coda.......
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
There's a place in Dubai but most of its stock is multiple years old.
Feline (Jonathan) and Rock Bottom in Croydon are 15 mins away.
There is a more basic shop in Sutton called.err.. Sutton Music where I can pick up strings and that's 10mins away.
I also work up in Central London and Guitar Guitar, Camden is 15 mins away as is Denmark St.
GAK in Brighton is about 1hr 10mins away.
Charlie Chandlers is about 40 mins away (Hampton Wick/Kingston) and I've just noticed there's another shop near him in Hampton that's run by one of the old Chandler Guitar guys. I don't know if it's new or just upped it's profile.
But I will let you decide what is your definition of decent and which is your nearest. Btw I have had good friendly service and advice when trying out guitars at Dawsons, Chester. But I've also had good service at Back Alley Music in Chester and should have included it in my opening post.
It may be that we disagree about what is the absolute minimum requirement for the term "music retailer". (Someone that sells high end guitars to both Dentists and working guitarists.)
Forum members have suggested that Dawsons either refuse or discourage trading in your guitar for a new guitar.
Are you able to confirm that - or otherwise - for the Chester branch?
But none of those is anywhere near as good as the best ones in Great Britain. I don't think the ones in Dublin (more like 2 hours away, at least), while better than Belfast, are as good, either.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
The name made me laugh a year or two back when they where still crammed into a rather small store where you could barely get through the door... but they recently got the bigger premises next door and it's much easier to see the hidden gems.
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......and totally miss Greenhalgh's - where else can we buy sheet music for Peters & Lee's Greatest Hits?
I'd say that PMT is the much larger shop (the largest wall of PRS and Gibsons that i've ever witnessed).... and that's even taking into account that GG ain't small !
However, if you're actually in the city centre then the easiest guitar shop to get to is Fair Deal music (Smallbrook Queensway) just a few mins walk from the main rail station (New St.) or The Bullring shopping complex.
Also, don't forget The Little Guitar Shop in The Jewellery Quarter (there's a local train/tram station nearby)...the clue is in the name of the shop (though they may have expanded a bit, i think i remember reading somewhere).
I will caveat the above with the fact that things haven't changed in the couple of years since i last visited them all....a good, but tiring, day out ;-)