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Your first lesson is free · Instruments set up by hand · 30 days to change your mind
Electric guitars lined up on stands in a music store

Since 2009

Instruments set up by hand. Lessons built around your song.

Tonecraft began as a repair bench in the back of a Wicker Park shop. People came in for strings and left asking who could teach them one song. So we added a lesson room, then five more, and kept the idea: the song comes first, and everything else, the instrument, the teacher, the lesson plan, is chosen to get you playing it.

  • Six lesson rooms and a rehearsal room above the store
  • A workshop that sets up every guitar before it leaves
  • Instruments to borrow in every room

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1418 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

Store, Mon – Sat
10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Store, Sun
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Lessons, Mon – Thu
12:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Lessons, Fri
12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lessons, Sat
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
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