Music Works

Music Works, musical instrument store in New Zealand

Music Works is a New Zealand retailer dedicated to the sale of musical instruments and professional audio equipment. Its catalogue ranges from beginner instruments to equipment aimed at musicians, recording studios and live sound installations.

Guitars, basses and string instruments

The guitar section includes acoustic, electric, classical and bass guitars in four, five and six-string versions, with left-handed options and beginner packs. It also sells resonator guitars, acoustic-electric guitars, ukuleles in various sizes, banjos and mandolins. The guitar accessories section brings together straps, capos, picks, cables, tuners, stands, slides, cleaning products, foot stools, wireless systems and pickups, among others.

Amplifiers and effects

Music Works has amplifiers for acoustic and electric guitar, bass, keyboard and electronic drums, as well as multi-purpose and battery-powered amplifiers. The range is completed with speaker cabs and speakers, accessories such as footswitches, covers, stands and cables, and a wide variety of effect pedals: distortion, overdrive, fuzz, multi-effects, boost, chorus, phaser, wah, reverb, delay, tremolo, flanger, compressor, equaliser, harmonisers, looper and volume, among others.

Drums and percussion

The drums and percussion catalogue includes acoustic kits in rock, fusion, jazz and be bop configurations, electronic drums, drum machines and pads. Added to this are cymbals of various types, drumsticks, brushes and beaters, bags and cases, drum heads, hardware, stands, pedals and accessories such as metronomes, mutes and hearing protection. The percussion section incorporates cajons, cowbells, maracas, tambourines, bongos, djembes and tuned percussion such as glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, marimba and timpani.

Pianos, keyboards and synthesizers

The store sells upright and grand acoustic pianos, hybrid pianos, SILENT, TransAcoustic, AvantGrand and Disklavier models, as well as home, portable and stage digital pianos, including the Yamaha Clavinova and Yamaha Arius models. It also offers home, workstation and stage keyboards, keyboard, desktop and Eurorack modular synthesizers, plus accessories and stands.

Recording, studio and live sound

The home and studio recording section covers audio interfaces, converters, patchbays, sound cards, condenser, dynamic and ribbon microphones, monitoring headphones, studio monitors and subwoofers, MIDI controllers, preamplifiers, mixing consoles and 500 series modules. For live sound and professional audio, the range includes vocal and instrument microphones, wireless systems, analogue, digital and powered mixing consoles, active and passive speakers, subwoofers, power amplifiers and installation accessories such as ceiling speakers, column arrays and surface mount.

Brass, woodwind and harmonicas

Music Works also sells brass and woodwind instruments: trumpets, trombones, saxophones, clarinets, flutes, cornet, flugelhorn, horns, baritone horns, euphoniums, tubas, piccolos, oboes, recorders, harmonicas and flageolets. The section is completed with accessories such as mouthpieces, reeds, mutes, stands, cases, straps and cleaning and maintenance products.

DJ equipment and commercial audio

The store offers DJ controllers and mixers, headphones and monitors, flight cases and transport bags, stands and accessories. In commercial audio, the catalogue includes installation speakers, matrix processors and accessories for background music systems.

Cables and connectivity

The cable range covers guitar cables, microphone and balanced cables, XLR to jack and XLR to XLR, MIDI, patch, RCA, snake, speaker, power leads and adapters, as well as cable testers and connectors.