Best Music Shops In Milwaukee Near Me

4worldlovers: Welcome to Uncle Bob's Music Center. For over four decades Uncle Bob's has been the family owned, trusted, and reliable source for guitars, drums, keyboards, and pro-audio in the metro Milwaukee area. They pride themselves on expert and personal service to back every sale.

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We buy, sell, trade and consign new and used musical instruments and amps.

4worldlovers: Denny Rauen is a master luthier and considered to be one of the finest in the world. He's been building, restoring, repairing and modifying string instruments for over 40 years.

Since 1982, Rauen Guitars has been serving a variety of clients, including top musicians, enthusiasts, and collectors from around the world. Currently, Denny is continuing his craft but downsizing his workload.

In 1981 as a 28 year old rookie, Denny had the good fortune to hang out and chat with the legendary Leo Fender and discuss his Multi-Radius (compound-radius) innovation.

Denny is the person behind inventing the compound radius fretboard, which provides guitar players with great mobility for string bending. It was in 1978 when this idea came to light and later shared for the entire luthier community to use. Before he invented this fretboard for guitar, nobody used a conical-shaped fingerboard to help in bending notes.

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4worldlovers: Top Shelf Guitar Shop is located in Milwaukee Wisconsin. We buy, sell, trade, and repair quality new, used, vintage guitars, and amplifiers. We also provide guitar lessons and bass lessons with qualified instructors. We are in a neighborhood known as Bay View, about 3 miles south of the downtown area. Please give us a call or stop in and we’ll be happy to help you with your musical needs.


Milwaukee’s Top Shelf is a full-service guitar shop. We offer an expert repair service for guitars, basses and amps.


Top Shelf has a variety of electric, acoustic and bass guitars, mostly used, but we have a few new ones too.


Top Shelf has a variety of amplifiers available (mostly used) for sale. Stop down to check them out.

Here’s what some of our customers are saying about Top Shelf!

Jeff (owner) has resurrected a lot of broken equipment and guitars for my family and friends over the years. He asks intelligent questions to understand your playing style and what you need so he can make suggestions. Being an incredible musician in his own right he understands these things. When you buy something from him all the years of knowledge and guidance, standing behind the gear is included in the price. He made the mistakes so you don't have to! If you want cheap cheap go see a clerk at a big box store where they employ kids who don't know products. As a wise man once told me ``buy the best and you only cry once``. You can find the best at Top Shelf!- Dan

Nice little shop with different selections of new acoustics, ukeleles, used electric guitars and amps of all sizes. Great selection of parts, strings and accessories not seen in many other stores! Very approachable and kind staff, good small business.- Chris

I called at about 5:45 p.m. and they close at 6, I was in dire need of getting my electronic drum fixed. As I have read previous reviews they had stayed open late for other customers, so i figured I'd give it a shot. Long story short, he said come on in. He had me all fixed up ready to go in less than 5 minutes. A++++++ not to many stand up businesses around anymore, but I would recommend them all day long. And that was my first time in the shop. It's not like I'm a regular customers. Thank you guys!!!- Al

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We offer NEW/used vinyl and compact discs, DVDs, t-shirts and more.

Rushmor specializes in modern rock, punk & hardcore, progressive/Euro-rock, rockabilly, and heavy metal music.

IMPORTS from around the World! We PROUDLY support local independent music.