Elderly Instruments

Elderly Instruments

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Family-owned since '72, we're a music store w/ a global reputation for quality instruments & service.

Elderly Instruments is a musical instrument retailer in Lansing, Michigan that specializes in new and vintage fretted instruments, including acoustic and electric guitars, ukuleles, banjos, basses and mandolins. We maintains a selection of odd and rare instruments and we are known as a premier repair shop for fretted instruments, as one of the larger vintage instrument dealers in the United States

Photos from Elderly Instruments's post 05/31/2026

Check out the beautiful Hawaiian Koa on this Taylor Gold Label 814e!
https://www.elderly.com/products/taylor-gold-label-814e-koa-acoustic-guitar-case-gl814ek?variant=44046378860735
This top-of-the-line Taylor introduces players to a new kind of sound inspired by the classic sounds of the vintage era. This model features a body shape called the Super Auditorium, which resembles Taylor's Grand Auditorium but with slightly wider contours that help coax out more volume and greater low-end presence.

05/31/2026

Twang like the good ol’ days!
https://www.elderly.com/products/fender-custom-shop-54-reissue-telecaster-relic-30u-222281?variant=44456864579775
Pure Tele twang, Custom Shop style. This ’54 Reissue Relic from 2018 brings vintage looks, familiar feel, and unmistakable tone. Check it out at elderly.com

05/30/2026

We've got a real folk and bluegrass machine, The Loar LM-600-VS Mandolin!
https://www.elderly.com/products/the-loar-lm-600-vs-mandolin-and-case?variant=27741464395840
Hand-carved and graduated from solid select tonewoods, and featuring a lightweight nitrocellulose finish for increased projection, The Loar LM-600 professional F-style mandolin features include a solid spruce top, solid figured maple back and sides, and an ebony fretboard.

Photos from Elderly Instruments's post 05/30/2026

Striking looks, superb sound, it's the 2005 Parker P-36!
https://www.elderly.com/products/parker-p-36-electric-guitar-2005-30u-222752?variant=44654953169087
Parker updates classic t-style guitar styling with this P-36, sporting a see-through blonde finish on a solid ash body. It features a bolt-on maple neck and fingerboard, and is equipped with a string-through T-style bridge, a Fishman piezo pickup, dual single-coil pickups, and Grover 18:1 tuners.

Photos from Elderly Instruments's post 05/29/2026

Take home a real piece of guitar history!
https://www.elderly.com/products/gibson-nick-lucas-special-acoustic-guitar-20u-222820?variant=44690621038783
This 1929 Gibson Nick Lucas Special is Gibson’s first artist signature guitar, created with one of the earliest guitar stars to record solo performances. Its small body and deep sides give it a voice that still carries nearly a century later.

05/29/2026

Sharp looks and cutting tone, we've got a 2014 Gibson Lzzy Hale Signature Explorer!
https://www.elderly.com/products/gibson-lzzy-hale-signature-explorer-30u-223185?variant=44931238920383
Lzzy Hale's weapon of choice, this Gibson Explorer features an Alpine White finish on a bound mahogany body, mahogany neck, bound rosewood fretboard, block inlays, 2 '57 Classic humbucking pickups, gold hardware, all while still weighing in under 9lbs!

05/29/2026

Excuse me? I'm looking for a 12-string with Brazilian back and sides.
https://www.elderly.com/products/santa-cruz-brazilian-f-custom-12-string-guitar-1998-26u-222573?variant=44580490838207

05/29/2026

Clapton fans, this one's for you!
https://www.elderly.com/products/fender-custom-shop-eric-clapton-stratocaster-30u-223696?variant=45493326217407
This Custom Shop Eric Clapton Stratocaster features an alder body with a bolt-on maple neck and fingerboard. Equipped with three vintage noiseless single-coil pickups, Fender's TBX circuit (master tone #1), and an active mid-boost (master tone #2). Hardware includes vintage-style split-post tuners and a bent-saddle tremolo bridge. A feature unique to Clapton's Artist Series Model is the factory-blocked bridge, with 5 springs installed, but no tremolo bar included.

05/28/2026

ON SALE NOW We've got a stunning Taylor 514ce!
https://www.elderly.com/products/taylor-514ce-acoustic-guitar-case?variant=41982940414143
A Grand Auditorium guitar featuring back and sides of Urban Ironbark, the 514ce delivers a sweet, muscular sound that combines rosewood's high-fidelity voice with mahogany's warm and punchy midrange and spectrum-wide sonic balance. Paired with a torrefied Sitka spruce top for a played-in, mature sound and V-Class bracing for improved volume and sustain, the 514ce yields power ideal for heavy strummers, along with touch sensitivity that gives it a wide dynamic range that's great for fingerstyle players.

05/28/2026

"Wish You Were Here" to play this David Gilmour Strat!
https://www.elderly.com/products/fender-custom-shop-david-gilmour-relic-30u-223704?variant=45496226087103
This 2014 Custom Shop David Gilmour Relic Stratocaster is made from a solid alder body, with a bolt-on maple neck. Equipped with an array of custom shop and Seymour Duncan single-coil pickups (Duncan SSL-5, Custom-Wound Strat, and Fat '50s Strat), split-post tuning machines, 6 bent saddles, and a beveled tremolo bridge with short arm. Make use of the Gilmour Mod switch to add the neck pickup to the 1st and 2nd switch positions. A faithful recreation of Gilmour's own Black Strat, with a factory relic job to match years of playing wear. Original custom shop case with green embroidered lining included.

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1100 N Washington Avenue
Lansing, MI
48906

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 7pm
Tuesday 11am - 7pm
Wednesday 11am - 7pm
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday 11am - 7pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm