One plaza over from the Guitar Center is a store called Music & Arts. Went there to get a clarinet for my kid. They had decent prices and selection of guitars, albeit small. Worth checking out.

Sucks cause my dad worked for Daddy's Junky Music when I was a kid. Moved away from the state for 20 years and just got back and learned they went out of business a while ago. I went there for bass lessons in high school.

We moved away in 2015, but if you needed any info you can DM me. You'll be 8 hours from San Diego and LA (Disneyland and other amusement parks#, 6 from Vegas. Mt Lemmon is a great escape from the summer heat, but also great if you need a quick snow day in the winter-we were surprised our first winter because it was a "thing" to drive up and cover your vehicle with snow and drive back down into the city. Takes about 45 minutes to get to the summit and there's a little community up there. Good camping in summer and a small ski slope in winter, though Flagstaff is better for that. There's a lot to do in Tucson if you look around, and it's a good college town- UofA is great and Pima Community college is wonderful as well. There's a decent county fair every spring, but it's not like the big agricultural fairs here in New England-Deerfield and Topsfield are what I grew up with. Avoid the area around the airport, South Tucson gets real dicey. But there's a lot of nice areas to live all around. North and toward Oro Valley tends to be nicer. Sahuarita, Rita Ranch, and even Vale can be decent. There's so much good food there too, but a lot of restaurants came and went constantly. But they have an incredible food truck community. And there are some really good farmers markets that rotate through different parts of town.

My wife and I grew up in NH, but spent 5 years in Tucson while I was in the AF. Arizona is gorgeous, and it snows in the mountains in Flagstaff and the main mountain in Tucson. When I retired it was a tough decision where we'd move back to between the 2 states.