Music Exchange

This guitar shop is presumably run and owned by the same people who run and own Drums International further down the High Street. The guitar shop used to be where the Drum shop now is, see.
Anyway. This is a fairly small but friendly local music store, and yet another retail outlet on the high street that seems to cater to a limited and specialised market (there is a tobacconist down the road, a vacuum cleaner repair shop, and various other ‘single issue’ operations). The stock in here is fairly good, but mainly budget or entry level stuff. Whilst I’m sure they could get you a 1958 Gretsch if you wanted one, they don’t carry such things in their main stock. That said, we all need guitar strings and other odds and ends on a regular basis, so this place is handy and saves me a trip into town.

Situated in the middle of Stirchley, Music Exchange is, (unsuprisingly) a music shop, focusing mainly on first hand guitars that cost less than five hundred pounds. There’s a wide range of acoustics and electrics, as well as a few ukeleles, banjos and mandolins. All though most of the stock is string based, there is a few microphones, keyboards and a bright blue drumkit set up in the middle of the shop as well as the usual guitar strings, instrument leads, sheet music etc.
If you’re looking to spend a couple of grand on a vintage guitar then there’s no point in coming to Music Exchange and there’s several other shops in Birmingham that are far better suited to your needs. However, if your budget is only a few hundred pounds and you want to buy a first hand guitar then it would probably be a good idea to check here first, and if all you’re after is a few guitar strings, then it will do very nicely, thank you.