Got gear?
All musicians, unless they're body percussionists who only play their own ribs, need gear and what goes with it.
Singers need sheet music, pitch pipes, and music stands. Violinists need strings, rosin, cleaning cloths, and sometimes a new bridge -- and not the one in Brooklyn.
Piano players don't usually need a new instrument, but they need to keep the one they have in prime condition with tuning, cleaning, and regulation -- and that goes whether it's a brand-new S teinway grand or a practice spinet left by Grandma.
Fiddlers, pickers, and cellists need a place to buy instrument strings. Other musicians need to know where to get their flute fixed, buy clarinet reeds, or get an accordion bellows repaired. A band has to have a place to go for amps, guitars, electronic organ servicing, MIDI equipment, and so on.
Santa Fe lost two established local music stores in 2004. The first to go was Linda Dixon's Northern New Mexico Music, long the source for the Santa Fe Opera's rehearsal pianos. Then it was George Jimenez's Allegro Music, which offered everything from sheet music to guitar picks to instruments to amplifiers. Both closed, in part, because of the drop in instrument rentals for public school music programs: they had trouble competing with low Internet prices. Then Santa Fe Guitar Works closed in 2005.
On the bright side, there are still plenty of music stores and music technicians. One with a long presence here is Strings and Things at the Candyman, offering keyboards, MIDI modules, drum sets, all kinds of percussion, public address systems, amplifiers, recording equipment and software, electric and acoustic guitars, capos, music stands, and more. Other shops are smaller -- one-person luthier businesses or repair depots.
Instrument and music dealers and repair shops
Los Alamos
Accordion Aesthetics: call for appointment, 505-662-2639
Los Alamos Music: 181 Central Park Square, 662-5851
Santa Fe
After Midnight Custom Guitars: 815 Early St., Suite B, 995-0638
Albeck Violins: 4 Azul Loop, 466-0766,
http://www.albeckviolins.comAudio Synergy: 2107 Cerrillos Road, 424-9309
Axmasters Guitar Service: 471-3644
The Candyman/Strings and Things: 851 St. Michael's Drive, 983-5906
Fam Jam! Family Music Store: 466-6999,
http://www.famjam.netHigh Desert Guitars: 111 N. Guadalupe St., 983-8922
Charles Pianos: at Leishman's of Santa Fe, 504 W. Cordova Road, 982-5554
Mig's Pro Systems: 1240 Calle De Comercio, 984-8606,
http://www.santafeav.com/mps.htmPawn City Inc.: 3668 Cerrillos Road, 438-4408
Santa Fe Classical Guitar http://Gallery.com: By appointment at David Yard Studios, 453 Cerrillos Road, 986-1753
Vizcarra Guitars: 121 Calle Don Jose, 988-1221
The Violin Shop of Santa Fe: 1411 Llano Street, 982-8908,
www.violinshopofsantafe.comTaos
David J. Caron, luthier: 505-751-1085
Española
Sun Valley Music: 815 Riverside Drive, Suite A, 505-753-7821
Piano Technicians and Instrument Finishers
Chimayó
Cree Studios: 351-1797,
http://www.creestudios.comLos Alamos
Los Alamos Music: 662-5851
Santa Fe
Michael Blackwell: 988-9557
Steven Eardley: 995-9972
Don Faulkner: 466-4493
David Seacord: 603-0565 or 877-460-2234,
http://www.davidseacord.comJoan Wagoner: 984-8179
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