Piccolo's Music

A Family Business In 1990 Barb Piccolo opened up shop as a local family-owned music store in Helena, MT. Twenty years later, Piccolo's is still just that, plus a website. Barb is here everyday, and her son John does guitar repair and sales. When they're not at the store you might catch them playing in their various bluegrass bands Barb plays mandolin, guitar, piano, and accordion, while John plays guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, bass, and recently, dobro ( and a few others ). There's a few of us non-Piccolo's around too, but we're musicians too, and that makes us all a family of sorts. Fred Cobb, store manager and keyboardist extraordinaire, knows the skinny on pretty much everything we have. He also plays a little violin and guitar ( he's a huge Taylor fan! ), and is currently music director for Carroll College's production of Hamlet. Julia, jazz vocalist and occasional guitar player, keeps the website in line ( and online ). Then there's Tricia, our piano player bookkeeper, Ron and Tom the band repair guys, who play multiple brass and wind instruments, and Will Harmon, our in-house lesson master for fiddle, mandolin, banjo, acoustic & electric guitar, & bass. There's a lot of music packed into this place, and we haven't even gotten to the stuff on the shelves. Box Store Prices & Small Town Service Most of our instruments are priced neck and neck with the big box stores only when you order from us you'll know it's been checked over and properly set up. If you have any special requests regarding set-up, be sure to let us know. We have solid affordable guitars to buy right here, right now, so you can get out and play. Then we have the guitars that you drool over for six months ( and then buy so you can get out and play ). Martin, Taylor, Fender, Jackson, Ibanez We have your brand. Strings, straps, amps, pedals we have your accessory.