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The South Beach Music Exchange won Miami New Times‘ award for Best Musical Instrument Store in 2010. And if you’re drunk and wanna buy a guitar at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday, it’s still the city’s top all-hours music store.
Marty, who runs the place, is a night owl. And whether the Deaf Poets need to borrow a bass or an out-of-town band needs guitar strings minutes before a show, he’s the man they go to.
Wondering what the shop looks like? Just See the cut for a 12-photo tour.
When you walk in, Marty might be jamming behind the counter.
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There are guitars, basses, mandolins, ukuleles.
The Exchange has even got instruments we’ve never heard of.
There are lap steels and amps.
The walls are full of electrics.
And a Rhodes organ.
Marty also does instrument repair. Here he is fixing a violin.
This is his workshop.
The shop is located next door to Purdy Lounge. So go have a couple brews and check it out.
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