Gottschalk Music Center - Merced

10/05/2026

We’re gearing up for our 2-day 🔪 Slasher Sale 🔪 at the end of this month!

Get ready for prices so low they’re frightening 😱

Stay tuned to see special highlights from each location so you can see how spooky these savings are 👀

🗓️ October 23rd-24th only

📍 BOTH locations! Come into your nearest Gottschalk OR travel to both to see unique gear in each store!

🔪 Everything with slashed tags from 15-50% off! Huge selection of guitar/bass, band and orchestra instruments, cases, pedals, keyboards, and more!

Forget Prime days!! The best musical savings are happening here this month 🤘🏽

09/30/2026

Elliot doing their thing and bringing instruments back to life 🎶🧑🏻‍🔧

09/24/2026

Save the date for our upcoming 🔪Slasher Sale 🔪 October 23rd and 24th!

🔪 Gottschalk Slasher Sale 🔪

Killer deals happening October 23rd and 24th. Save the date 🫵🏼

More details coming soon.

09/23/2026

Don’t forget to sign up as an interested vendor for our upcoming Halloween event

👻 Graveyard Bash 👻

We are gearing up for spooky time here in Merced and looking for some local vendors to join the party! 👻

This Halloween get ready for the first ever

🧟 Graveyard Bash 🧟

Come out to Bob Hart Square for local performances, free activities, a costume contest, candy, and so much more! 🎶

So if you or someone you know wants to come out and sell some spooky scary art or lead some hauntingly fun activities, fill out the form in our bio! 💥

Let’s work together and bring all the halloween fun to our Downtown Merced 🎃

07/01/2026

Your music scene guide for the month of July! 🎶🤘🏽

06/03/2026

What an awesome highlight of our store, thank you so much!! We love being apart of our city of Merced 🫶🏼✨🎶

06/01/2026

This Make Music Day come into your local Gottschalk Music for a 🆓 guitar restring!

The first 12 customers will also receive a FREE set of Acoustic Light Gauge (12-53) 🤘🏼Plus stay in store and jam out with local musicians and staff after you get your fresh strings put on!

💥 1 🆓 pair of Elixir Strings and restring service per household
💥 Limited to standard 6 string acoustic/electric
💥 Strings available for purchase after we run out

Huge thank you to and for putting this fun event on for 2026 🎶
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05/28/2026

It’s almost June?? 🫨

A new month means new music and we can’t wait to hear about where you’re making noise in June 👀

DM us your show flyers/show details so we can let the people know! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

➡️➡️➡️ Send by 5/30, will be posted 6/2

📸 : These incredible shots are from !!

🎸: And go follow the amazing and !!

05/11/2026

We had so much fun this weekend kicking off our new event series ‘At The Lab’! ✨

Thank you to everyone who came out to spend part of their Saturday with us! 🎶 Miss out on Ukulele At the Lab? Stay tuned for our next event with a completely new instrument!! 👀

Huge shoutout to our very own for teaching everyone some 90’s bangers on the uke! 🤘🏽

And special thanks to our friends for sharing their space with us and the music! Not to mention all the delicious drinks ☕️

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05/08/2026

Do you wish you could play ukulele too? 👀

Don’t miss out on your chance to learn fun tunes like ‘All The Small Things’ or ‘Let It Be’ on the uke at our free class! 🎶

✨ Ukulele At The Lab
🗓️ Saturday May 9th
⏰ 11am-1pm
📍 847 W Main St. Merced, CA 95340 @ The Sensory Lab

Want to join in the fun but don’t have an instrument? Stop at our store down the street and get set up with a new ukulele 🤘🏽 We hope to see you there!!