Musik Hug AG

Die Preise sind teilweise astronomisch hoch und entbehren wirklich jeder Grundlage dafür hat man die grösste Auswahl der Region und findet wirklich fast alles. Was man nicht findet, wird gerne bestellt.

Probably the most comprehensive music store in Basel for instruments as well as audio. There are three levels. The ground floor has all the CDs, with a fairly large selection of genres and artists, as well as a listening station for some of the new releases or current top artists. There’s also a good selection of sheet music for a variety of instruments (violin, piano, guitar, etc.) — and if you can’t find it here, they will order it for you.
The lower level is where you can try out their pianos and electric pianos (I have not spent much time down heretoo many bad memories of scary piano teachers), and the first storey has all the guitars (this is where I spend most of my time). You can try the ones they’ve got (Fenders, Gibsons, Jacksons, lots of choice), and you can order others from them as well.
They’ve got a limited supply of drum kits (usually one or two), but there are lots of percussion items. If you’re looking for a percussive turtle, or fruit-​shaped shakers, or coloured claves, this is a fun place to mess about in for a while. The only drawback in Musik Hug is the prices — while instruments are pretty expensive in Switzerland anyway, the CDs and sheet music prices are pretty high. For deals on media, I usually search around Ex Libris, or even Manor.
Customer service here is very good, and the clientele is pretty diverseyou do run into the odd musician once in a while (meaning odd musician in the sense that musicians are sometimes a bit odd)…just don’t let them intimidate you. They’re probably more afraid of you than you are of them.