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The Long & McQuade Lesson Centre is the music school inside Long & McQuade's Fredericton store at 981 Prospect Street, the largest lesson centre in the Fredericton region with nine dedicated teaching studios. Lessons run for all ages, levels, and styles, with instruction in guitar, bass, piano, drums, voice, brass, and strings from qualified professional instructors. Scheduling is the practical draw: morning, afternoon, evening, and weekend times are available, so working adults and school-age kids can both find a slot. The lesson centre lives inside a full Long & McQuade location, part of Canada's largest music retail chain, which took over the former Musicstop here in 2007 and moved into the current Prospect Street building in 2010. That means everything around the lessons is handled under one roof: instrument sales, rentals, in-house financing, guitar repairs, and even vacuum tube testing for amp owners, plus a climate-controlled room for the acoustic guitars. For a family starting a kid on an instrument, the rent-first option next door to the lesson studios takes a lot of the risk out of the first year. The store is uptown on Prospect Street near the main retail strip, open Monday to Wednesday 10 to 6, Thursday and Friday 10 to 8, Saturday 10 to 5, closed Sunday. The lesson desk has its own line, (506) 458-5444, which also takes texts; use that rather than the main store number to ask about instructor availability and openings.

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