SUR TAL - Music Instruments Store And Musical Services Noida Sector 110

SUR TAL – Music Instruments Store And Musical Services Noida Sector 110
Labour chowk, Shop No First Floor, VDS Market 26 & 28, And, or, near Maharishi Ashram, Sector 110, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201304, India
http://surtalmusicalinstruments.in/
SUR TAL – Music Instruments Store & Musical Services, Sector-110, Noida, is the kind of neighborhood hub that practicing musicians tell their friends about the way foodies talk about a secret kitchen tucked behind a grocery. Walk under the mustard-yellow awning beside the Sector-110 Mother-Dairy booth and you step into a compact 850-square-foot loft humming with rounded reverb. The ground floor is half showroom, half workshop: maple-paneled walls hold three staggered runs of steel-and-birch brackets that shoulder everything from student-size kadam-wood tablas to a wine-red Mayones six-string and a gleaming Sonor SQ2 drum kit that doubles as the afternoon demo station.

Everything is playable. Co-owner and Berklee-returned keyboardist Arjun Mehta insists on this: guitars sit at half-step-down tuning so left-hand testers feel the neck relief; the tabla pairs have fresh pudis swapped every two weeks; an AKG C214 is suspended overhead so you can loop a beat, overdub a synth line from the wall-mounted Virus TI Snow, and hear the result through Adam A7Vs while you wait. Pricing is honest—labels show MRP, store price, and occasional “Open-Box/Rs. Less,” all written in watercolor ink so nothing feels like a mall hard-sell.

Behind the red riveted curtain lives the service wing: luthier Tenzin Dorje’s bench (authorized repair center for Ibanez, Fender, and Kadence), sitar jawari station, and the silent PLEK machine that can fret-level a classical guitar in 21 minutes. While you sip complimentary lemon-mint cooler, Tenzin will let you watch through a glass pane as brass tangs shimmer under luthier lamps; disciples often spend a full hour learning why a humid Noida monsoon can kill a sitar’s flatness faster than a Delhi winter.

The real heartbeat is upstairs. A reclaimed-salmon door leads to “Sur Box,” the two-room studio that runs from talkback-equipped live room to control booth lined with recycled egg-crate diffusers. Local rapper Yung Raj tracked the viral six-track EP “110 Flow” here for free during the store’s lockdown “Curfew Sessions.” Hourly rates start at INR 699; if you bought an interface at SUR TAL ever, you get three complimentary hours. Every Tuesday the store turns into a micro-open-mic: eight performers, three-song cap, audience limited to twenty so vocals never fight the tiled reverb. Ghazal veterans share the rug with 14-year-old ukulele prodigies; tikka–popcorn combo is served in spare djembe shells.

For newcomers, three structured paths simplify entry. Sur Starter bundles (INR 10,500) put an Enya Nova U carbon-fiber ukulele, clip-on Snark, and four 30-minute Skype lessons in a metal flight case. Sur Sibling is a 14-week tabla–harmonium bonding course where parent-child duos learn “Raga Yaman” accompaniment; graduation includes a house concert streamed on SUR TAL’s Instagram. Sur Supply is monthly instrument-rental: guitars and violins INR 899, an entire 5-piece pearl export drum kit INR 2,499, sanitized and re-headed after every client.

The store is open 11:00-20:30 except Thursday. Delhi metro’s Aqua Line “Noida Sector 110” stop is a seven-minute tuk-tuk ride; Google Maps pin leads straight to the yellow arch and the unmistakable call-and-response of Arjun test-driving a Hammond through a Leslie while Tenzin tunes a swarmandal to A=432.

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