Vox, Giving and Teachers, Oh My

Another huge week has just passed by at The Music Spot, and we are looking forward to some exciting things next week as well.

Firstly, early this week we had the new limited edition White range of Vox Amps land.

Vox Amplifiers in Limited Edition White

From the AC4C1 up to the AC30C2, the beautiful white leather look will definitely add some class to your set!

B1G1 - giving back because we can!

Next, we have an announcement to make: The Music Spot is proud to be officially partnered with B1G1, an amazing charity organisation that enables us to contribute to specially selected, high-impact causes through our sales. When you purchase an item from us, part of your payment goes directly to one of these causes. It's a great way of giving something back and helping out the wider community.

Next week we are looking forward to the 2017 Maryborough Music Conference. As you can see, we are counting down!

Maryborough Music Teacher's Conference

Our director is heading up to represent The Music Spot, with a display of some of our music education stock, including Band and Orchestral Instruments and School Accessory Packs. She will be accompanied by String Tech, who have broad experience in the Music Education area offering repairs and service to Orchestral Stringed Instruments.  This conference is recognised as Australia's premier Music Educator's event, and will be attended by some amazing international performers and speakers.

And tomorrow marks not only a new Financial Year (Happy New Year!), but the end of our 24th Birthday Sale. There's still a few things left for you to grab, if you're quick!

Last pickings of our 24th Birthday Sale!

Last days of our 24th Birthday Sale!

Fender: Past, Present and Future

The Next Generation of Classic Fender Guitars

Fender Guitars. We love 'em. Doesn't everybody? When Leo Fender built that custom lap steel guitar for Noel Boggs in 1946, he could not know how much he was about to change the world, and how, over 70 years later, Fender would still be the go-to name for electric instruments the world over.

Excited much, Johnny?

This week we packed Johnny off to the Fender conference in Sydney, and you can imagine his reaction.


But it's not all fun and games and window shopping, these were the newest, latest cutting edge designs from the powerhouse of six string music - this was a glimpse into the future of what tomorrow's guitar heros will be cutting their teeth on, polishing their chops, becoming obsessed with.


Impressive display, is it not?

Fender Conference Sydney 2017

The Music Spot has been an authorised Fender dealer from day one (which, as you'll all remember, was July 1st, 1993).

A very young Grant demonstrating some great Fenders at The Music Spot over 20 years ago

And our staff love them. They don't just sell you a guitar because they are sales people, they sell you the guitar that will fit your life and fill your purpose and enable you to fulfill yours. One of our longest serving staff members, Dave, has given us some insight into his relationship with Fender Guitars:

Dave has been with us for 10 years now

"The reason I love Fender guitars is simple. The wide variety of tones. I can cover almost all of the sonic territory I hear in my head with a strat  or a tele. They are classic body shape designs connecting me to a long lineage of guitar history. You feel you're a part of the rock and roll culture when you look the same as your heros. Most of them played strats!"

I asked Dave what his current three favourite guitars were.

"My favourite Telecaster is the American Standard with ash body in butterscotch with the black pickguard. Classic single coil tones, all bite in the bridge, nice and jazzy in the neck, and centre position is the superb rhythm sound."

American Standard Tele

"The copper Sparkle Roadhouse Stratocaster is a top shelf value instrument. Every bit as feature heavy as the USA built guitars. Noiseless pickups, shaved heel Clapton-esque preamp for mid range wind up." 

Roadhouse Strat in Copper Sparkle

"The new American Professional Stratocasters are the greatest example of what quality means to a company the size of Fender. Great colour options, over 60 years of getting it right and packed full of great tone."

American Professional series Strat in Sonic Grey

At The Music Spot you will always find a good selection of Fender guitars in Acoustic, Electric and Bass, as well as all the accompanying accessories. We have a good selection online, but to get the best experience come into our shop and put your hands on one of these beauties and feel the quality for yourself. 

And who knows, maybe you might see one of the next generation of guitar heros in the shop picking up their first strat. 

Maybe it might even be you.

Halfway Through June Already!

It's one of those years that's going to just fly right by, isn't it? Can you believe we are in the middle of June already??

That means a few things:

Brrrr...

1. After next Wednesday, the days will start to get longer again (yay!)

2. Three more months of this freezing weather (not so yay)

3. More importantly, we are halfway through our 24th Birthday Sale already!

So that means there are still quite a few great bargains left, but some have already left the building (queue Elvis joke).

Our Bargain Bin table is looking a little depleted!

What's left in our Bargain Bins

But as some things go out the door, others arrive, and we are very excited about our new Casio Keyboards that came this week.  Check out the new MZW series keyboards in both Black and Blue...

New Casio MZW Keyboards

...and the new XW series synthesisers, with amazing new features. Imagine the sounds you could make with these babies!

New Casio XW Series Synthesisers

Other people have had an exciting week too: Remember our new friends, Tasman Guitars? Their website has just been launched, and you can get all the delicious info and photos and everything you could possibly want there (except the guitars themselves of course, that's where we come in!).

Tasman Guitars' new website, featuring Yours Truly!

By the way, have you joined us in our Facebook Group yet?? If you're not a goupy (groupie??) type Facebooker, you can always follow our Page, that's where the magic happens ;)

That about wraps us up for this Friday, so make sure you wrap yourself up well and brave the cold to come and see us. (Remember we are Queenslanders, so by cold we mean sometimes it gets down as low as 20°C!!)

Midyear Catalogues have Dropped!

Our End OF Financial Year Catalogues have finally dropped! If you didn't get one in the mailbox come and grab a copy in store at 129 Browns Plains Rd, Browns Plains Queensland.

Some of the great deals in our Midyear Catalogue Sale

We have TONS of cool items heavily reduced, like this Behringer Eurolive B115D Speaker for only $489, or this Ashton D20SCEQ Solid Top Acoustic Guitar, with a hard case for only $269. These prices are for a limited time only, so get in quick!

We are here!

Check the Specials tab on our website to get these deals from the comfort of your own home, or come down and say hello. Don't forget you can always drop in to our Facebook group and have a chat with us - show us what you're working on, plug your next gig or album, ask us anything! Don't be shy!

We are a friendly team here at The Music Spot, so give us a chance to help you with all your Music needs!

Happy Birthday to Us!

The Music Spot is celebrating its 24th Birthday with a huge sale for the whole month of June!

It's par-tay time again! And we have LOTS to celebrate this year.

First of all, we have our new website launched, and the experience of online shopping has never been easier! We have heaps of Specials on there, as well as all the Guitars, Drums, Keyboards, Band & Orchestral and Folk Instruments you could ever want, plus Print Music to help you in your musical education or to play along with. We also have Pro Audio gear for recording as well as live performance. For those who have children in the School Music Program, we have specially-made School Accessory Packs to give you everything you need at a great price, in one easy step.

Our new website

Needless to say, launching our new website was pretty exciting, so lots of cake went around the office yesterday! Do go check out our website and let us know what you think - we welcome any feedback!

So onto the next reason to celebrate - it's our 24th birthday!


This year's colour is GREEN for GO! So we have green balloons and all kinds of crazy things hanging everywhere. Not to mention CRAZY deals on stock - come along and have a look through our 50c, $2, $5 and $10 bins. There are guitars, amps, drum kits, keyboards, saxophones, flutes - you name it, we want it out the door and are going to great lengths to get them gone!

We have a selection of great products online in our Specials section, but for the big savings head into our Browns Plains Superstore at 129 Browns Plains Rd, Browns Plains QLD. Just a few doors up from Mr Toys Toyworld. Follow the green balloons!

(For a full list of the items we are discounting instore, click HERE)

This is going on for the whole month of June, so there will be lots more happening in the coming weeks!

Bargain Bins and Bargain Books, just a small selection of our Sale Stock!