Flatts & Sharpe Music

Flatts and Sharpe is a small town music store that ended up in a big city with 2 locations: 6139 N Northwest Highway & 6749 N Sheridan Road! With our small town charm, affordable prices, and a friendly community of staff and musicians, Flatts and Sharpe is here to help with every aspect of a musician's life. We specialize in music lessons, instruments, instrument repair, instrument rentals and sheet music. We carry brand name musical instruments as well as the accessories to go with them. We have a full repair department that services string, bowed brass and woodwind instruments. Educators will be pleased to find a well-stocked book room full of method books and fun repertoire. Flatts and Sharpe is a CPS vendor. Come visit us! Established in 1974. Flatts & Sharpe Music Co., is an independent music shop with two locations: in Rogers Park at 6749 N. Sheridan Road and Norwood Park at 6139 N. Northwest Highway. Owner Chris Bell bought the shop, at 6749 N. Sheridan Road, from founder Ed Mooney in 2007 -- and business has been reverberating ever since. Bell, who grew up at Clark and Devon avenues, said she took her first guitar lessons 20 years ago at Flatts & Sharpe. Nearly seven years ago she walked by the shop, then owned by Mooney, and saw a small sign in the window: "Business for Sale." "We started off with 14 students and a pretty dusty old inventory, and now we're at about 550 students. A year and a half ago, Chris expanded with the second location in Norwood Park. With 25 teachers and twelve mostly sound-proof practice rooms, Bell said she has striven to build "a community through the arts."