1504 Lamy Lane · Monroe, Louisiana · Since 1946
Monroe's largest selection of new and used pianos, organs and portable keyboards. Everything on the floor is there to be played, and nobody is going to rush you.
Eighty years on one floor
Paul Hewitt Music has been helping musicians around Monroe with their piano needs, parts and new equipment since 1946. The floor is a real room at 1504 Lamy Lane with real instruments on it, and the instruments change as they sell. What you see on this page was photographed where it stands.
If you are getting a child started, coming back to an instrument after twenty years, or looking for a Hammond that still has its tone cabinet, the answer is the same. Come in between ten and five, sit down, and play a few of them.
Two lines answer here. James on (318) 372-1449 is the main number. Frank answers on (318) 680-5737.
A walk through the room
This is the whole shop, in the order you would meet it walking in from the parking lot.
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New Yamaha stands on the same carpet as pre-owned uprights, consoles and baby grands. It is the largest selection of new and used pianos, organs and portable keyboards in Monroe, and the only way to know which one is yours is to sit down at a few of them.
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Under the original Hammond dealer sign that still reads Music's Most Glorious Voice. Consoles and tone cabinets, the CV, the RT-3, the A100 in cherry. A Hammond is a two piece instrument and we keep both pieces.
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Clavinova and portable keyboards for the player who needs headphones after nine, or a room that will not take the weight of an upright. Weighted action, real sound, no tuning.
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Parts and service since 1946. This is the inside of a Hammond with its service plate still riveted to the chassis. Shops that can open one of these up are not thick on the ground any more.
What we do
Sales is only part of it. The bench, the teaching and the rebuild work are the reasons instruments keep coming back through the door instead of going out of it once.
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New Yamaha and a pre-owned floor that has carried Wurlitzer, Young Chang and Everett. Uprights, consoles, studios and baby grands.
Pianos detailsThe end of a playing life
A piano that will never hold a tuning again is still a hundred years of cabinet work. We have turned a grand case into a curved bookshelf and a Hammond tone cabinet into a bookcase, and an Everett studio now carries a modern Yamaha action inside its original body. They are one of a kind and they turn up on the floor from time to time.
Since 1946
The same family, the same floor, for nearly eighty years.
James Hewitt runs it now. The sign on the wall over the organs is the one Hammond gave its dealers, and it has not moved. Neither has the idea behind the shop, which is that somebody ought to be able to walk in off Lamy Lane, put their hands on an instrument, and get a straight answer about it from a person who plays.
“Service here was great. We didn't buy a piano but the salesman was very helpful and explained lots of different products to us”
Before you drive over
Open Monday to Saturday
1504 Lamy Ln, Monroe, LA 71201. Closed Sunday. There is no appointment and no pressure, and you are welcome to spend an hour at the same instrument if that is what it takes.
Prefer to write? jhewitt@paulhewittmusic.com
