Visit any Sam Ash Music Store at any time and you're guaranteed to see somebody making music. After all, making music is what Sam Ash is all about and they mean business. Playing the incredible selection of instruments is not only allowed, it's encouraged. You'll find people of all ages, from novice to pros playing guitars, keyboards, drums or brass and woodwind instruments. The huge inventory of musical instruments and accessories, sound and recording equipment, sheet music and videos, computers and music software covers every musician's needs no matter what his or her playing style or ability may be.

Sam Ash is known as “The World's Favorite Music Store®,” but they didn't arrive at that title overnight. The Sam Ash saga is a classic business story. It encompasses the American dream, retaining the basic concepts of a family-run business even today. From very simple beginnings the company has grown to nineteen musical instrument superstores, a professional division, and a parts division. But the story begins in Brooklyn.

In 1924 Calvin Coolidge was president of the United States, George Gerswin premiered his “Rhapsody In Blue,” Johnny Weissmuller brought home Olympic gold and in a small neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, Sam Ash opened his first music store.

Sam Ash (Ashkynase) was born in Austria and traveled to the United States in 1907, the same year that his future bride, Rose Dinin, left her native Russia to settle in Brooklyn. Sam, a violinist, set out to make a career in music. After playing with various groups Sam decided to strike out with a band of his own. The Sam Ash Orchestra would entertain at weddings and dances playing the popular music of the time. After Sam and Rose were married, the new Mrs. Ash decided that a musician's life was too precarious to build a family around. The young couple decided to open their own business based upon what Sam knew best - music. Having very little savings the couple was forced to pawn Rose's engagement ring for $400 in order to make the down payment on what was to become the first Sam Ash Music store.

As the result of an expansion program that began in the 1950s under the direction of Sam's sons Jerry and Paul, today there are 45 Sam Ash Musical Instrument Megastores nationwide located in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. The company also runs a pro services and parts division, Sam Ash Professional and an Educational Division that specializes in servicing schools. Known the world over for offering the most complete selection of musical instruments and accessories at famous discount prices, Sam Ash Music retains the same goals that their founder established when he opened that first store in Brooklyn. Our mission is to "WOW" our customers, with value by offering the largest and most complete assortment of quality products at the lowest possible prices. We will not waiver from our founder's legacy of honesty and fairness in dealing with our customers, associates and suppliers and pledge to always provide friendly, informative and respectful service to the communities we serve.