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Archambault
Categories: Shopping Books, Mags, Music and Video Bookstores Shopping Books, Mags, Music and Video Music & DVDs Shopping Musical Instruments & Teachers Bookstores, Music & DVDs, Musical Instruments & Teachers [Edit]
500, rue Sainte-Catherine EstMontréal, QC H2L 2C6
(514) 849-6206
- Hours:
Mon-Fri 9:30 am - 9 pm
Sat 9 am - 5 pm
Sun 10 am - 5 pm
- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
4 reviews for Archambault
2 reviews in English
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Review from Rob T.
This is probably the biggest music store complex in North America. I love this place!! It has everything and anything you could possible look for pertaining to audio, video, books, sheet music, guitars, basses, synthesizers, etc...in fact, 3 floors of them! Each different musical instrument has its own room where one could go and play around for hours sampling some pretty cool pieces. My favorite is the guitar and bass room. They let you play pretty much anyone you want and there are these neat little areas to try out multi-effects boxes and distortion pedals while connected to headphones. Definitely check it out!
The staff here are very knowledgeable and will help you find whatever you are looking for. Prices are pretty competitive, although with the current rate of exchange btw US/CAN, you would probably get a much better deal on guitars in the US. None the less, if you're in Montreal and into music of any kind, you gotta go spend some time here. One can easily spend half the day here as I have. Also, if your into electronic or house music, there is a small room downstairs off the main room that it solely for this genre of music, and they have some pretty hard to find titles which you can first listen to in the little kiosk before buying. -
Review from Nicolas M.
Montréal, QC
1/13/2012
So it looks like I am the one writing the first English review of this place; I'm proud of myself :) I came in here tonight because I was in the area buying bus tickets at the terminal and I figured I'd stop in here cause I needed two technical studies books for viola. My instructor told me that this is the only place in town to go to buy sheet music and that they're actually a bit overpriced. I didn't think so all that much being American and being used to the price of things here in Canada being higher than in the States plus the high sales tax.
Employees were very helpful although not quite 100 percent knowledgeable of what they had or what something even was. I found most of what I was looking for, but I had a piece of music ordered that I will pick up in about two weeks. It is nice that they were able to do that for me. After I had found what I was looking for, I browsed what else they had. I am impressed. They have more in the way of orchestral and opera scores than most other places I have been. For example, most stores only have on the shelf just one Dover edition of Bizet's Carmen in full score. Archambault had three on the shelf, so over all, very well stocked. They have many different selections of recordings and some great deals too! I was tempted to pick up some recordings as well, but I told myself not get too carried away and just come back.
Apart from classical stuff, they've got lots of other kinds of music, some games/toys, gizmos, non-music books, etc. Since I don't have much of a choice, I will be coming back (I want to anyways).
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