Melbourne's Guitar Store

After years of playing through, comparing and selling real amplifiers and digital guitar gear, we don’t judge a modeller by how many amps appear in its menu.

We judge it by whether we stop noticing that it is a modeller.

We’re running free beginner guitar lessons every Saturday in August at 11am at Colemans Music in South Melbourne. These sessions are designed for complete beginners — no experience, no gear, no pressure.

There is no shortage of electric guitar brands competing for space on a music-store wall. A new name has to do more than offer another familiar-looking guitar in a familiar colour. It needs to give players a genuine reason to pick it up.

That is exactly why Patina Guitars caught our attention at Colemans Music.

Designed in collaboration with legendary guitarist Chet Atkins, the Country Gentleman was Gretsch’s sophisticated answer to the professional electric guitar. It was elegant without being excessive, warm without becoming muddy and articulate enough to reproduce every detail of Atkins’ famously precise fingerstyle playing.