The New Look at Q and F

This weekend I had the opportunity to finally get to the new Quinlan and Fabish music store in Burr Ridge.  It is located just off of Plainfield Rd. and High Grove avenue.  It is a beautiful new facility that will serve our community and surrounding communities for many years.  There is a fabulous new showroom with instruments out on display for people to see, touch, and play.  The store is sectioned off into 4 separate areas to make locating what you are looking for very easy.

While I was there picking up some supplies for our students, I was given a tour of the complex that many people do not get to see.  Q and F now has a huge storage wharehouse that can hold thousands of instruments for distribution throughout all of their locations.  The Yamaha Corp. is renting a portion of the space to store their inventory that they distribute throughout the United States.  Yamaha also has professional technicians on site to test and evaluate all of their instruments.  

The repair department is also housed in a spacious area to make repair and replacement of instruments more efficient.  The new facility also features a conference room that is used to hold meetings for band directors, Q & F staff, and other business related to the music industry.  A new feature at Quinlan and Fabish will be the addition of private lesson studios.  They will soon house private instructors on all instruments right out of the store.  This will be a great service to our community for those looking to have their child study privately.

This new facility is a far cry from the small store that George Quinlan Sr. and Tom Fabish opened in Chicago many years ago.  It was a family run business which served a small community of people and schools.  It is still a family run business but is now considered one of the primary band and orchestra dealers in the mid-west if not one of the largest in the country.  If you have not had a chance to stop in, please do so and see what they have to offer.  They have been serving our community for thirty years.  We are fortunate to have a company like this who supports instrumental music education in our community.  Congratulations to George Quinlan Jr., George Quinlan Sr. and all of the people who had a part in this vision.