Welcome to our store!
If you have never been to our store here is a look around.
Harry & Jeanie West have a great selection of Guitars, Mandolins, Banjos, Fiddles, Up-Right Basses, Resophonic instruments, Dulcimers, Auto harps and more. We Focus and Specialize in Stringed Acoustic instruments. Guitars that are 12 frets clear of the body, 000, 00, OMs, Auditoriums, Cutaway Acoustic electrics, A limited amount of solid body electrics can be found here from time to time, And of course we have a Huge selection of D size Guitars.
(What would life be like without a Dreadnaught size guitar?)
We Try to have a little of everything for everybody. We Have More C. F. Martin guitars in stock than anyone in the area! We cater to the Bluegrass, Country, Jazz, Blues, Rock and R & B musicians alike all over the world.
If you have been in our store in the past You can tell we have made A few Changes and they are definitely for the better. We are far from done but we are making Progress in making your visit with us A favorable one.
If you are looking for an Acoustic Instrument This Is The Place To Be!
Not only is the selection better then if you was to go in a place that has everything from A to Z, You will not have to deal with "screaming" electric guitars and basses that rattle the rafters in the same store.
We have nothing against Electrics. We own several in our personal collection and love them. You hardly run across any Acoustic only stores anymore and we think it is important to keep these stores alive and going.
We Have heard more then several times from customers that we have the largest selection of Mandolins then any other walk in store they know of.
New, Used, and even Vintage. You must make appointments to view all Vintage items. We have too much stock to fit it all in one location.
The photo below are only some of the Mandolins we have in stock. We also have "High End" Mandolins made by local and not so local Luthiers that are not on display.
We have Mandolins that range in price from just over $200.00 "out the door" and up.
We do have UP-Right (AKA Dog-House) basses in stock.
Basses By Kay, Engelhardt And Cremona can also Have Custom Electronics installed that are of the most Natural sounding in production by K & K Sound Reinforcements. No more setting up Microphones. Just plug and play!
We have basses that range in price from $679.00 "out the door with nice well padded gig bag" and up.
We also carry a large number of Hardshell cases New and used and Gig Bags for most all stringed instruments trying to have odd sizes in stock. We have lots of Stands, Strings, Pics, Parts for Banjos, Violins, Guitars, Resophonic Guitars. We have most anything you would need for an Acoustic Stringed instrument.
Are in the market for a C. F. Martin Guitar?
We have A HUGE selection and we are selling at Ridiculously LOW Prices!
Normally you would have to drive to 3 or 4 stores combined to find what we have under one roof.
We Have Most all C. F. Martin guitars in stock. We can Also order anything That is not in stock. If it is in stock at the Martin Factory we can have it in our store as early as three Business days.
Free Strap Button Installed on the spot with a free pack of strings included.
Electronics installed within 24 hours with FREE Professional Installation if you buy Electronics and Guitar in our Store.
With our low prices and FREE pickup and Strap Button Installation We have deals that can't be beat! Call 704-883-0033 and Ask for Jimmy for the lowest prices on your next C. F. Martin Guitar.
Custom ordered C. F. Martin guitars can take anywhere from 4 to 6 months to come in under normal circumstances.
"Almost Any Instrument" We have in stock can be fitted with a custom pickup system by:
L. R. Baggs, C. F. Martin Gold+Plus Max, Gold+Plus, and Fishman Thinline Sound Systems.
We Now stock K & K Sound reinforcements That will electrify anything from a Guitar to a Dulcimer and everything in between.
We heard customers all the time say "This Instrument sounds great, If only it was Acoustic Electric it would be perfect for me"
We listen to our customers so now we can make it happen!
L. R. Baggs and K & K have come up with Transducers that adhere to the bridge plate of your Instrument and take a snap shot of the sound the instrument they are installed in and reproduce it just as good as any microphone I have heard.
If the under the saddle Peizo setup is perfect for your needs We have Them in stock also.
Need A Banjo?
We have A Huge selection of new Banjos That includes: Gibson, Deering, Vega, GoldStar, Gold Tone, Recording King, WildWood, Harmony, JBovier and Saga.
We also Carry Blueridge, Johnson, Cort, Tocoma, Regal, and Morgan Monroe just to name a few. We are always searching for the best quality for the money.
Sometimes we get a shipment of guitars in that we keep in their cases and just forget about for years.
We have done this with some Washburn and Alvarez Yairi guitars we received in the mid 80's to mid 90's. We only have two Alvarez Yairis available from that lot and you can view them in the new guitar section of our web site.
In this photo you see A few Washburn's we have recently broke out and are up for sale at this time.
Also here are two Mountain Guitars one 000, and one D size guitar. These are great sounding instruments that were Hand Crafted in the mid 70's in Japan and they are new (Never Sold). Two Cort Guitars made in the 90's, A Gibson Nick Lucaus reissue and even a Simon And Patrick Guitar hand crafted in Canada (Very Nice Sounding Box) We even have a Lefty Epiphone Les Paul Custom Black with Gold hardware. Also some resonated guitars that were made recently.
