Allegro Music

Specialties

We’ve got Gear — brand name guitars, amps, keyboards, drums, violins, woodwinds. Wide variety of music instrument accessories — strings, sticks, stands, tuners, metronomes, everything a musician needs.

Thousands of print music books in stock — songbooks for all genres and method books.

EasyRent/​EasyOwn Instrument Rental Program — you can apply all your rental money toward the purchase of your rental instrument at any time, no obligation.

Wanna Play? Toronto’s best teachers will design private lessons to suite your interest and playing level — guitar & bass, piano, voice, drums, flute, saxophone, violin, viola, fiddle, harmonica, accordion, theory and harmony, songwriting.

History

Established in 1971.

An enterprising fellow named Joe Gillon opened Allegro Music in the winter of 1971 in the basement of our current location. He built two teaching rooms at the back of the Cavalier Barber Shop, taught some guitar lessons and rented out a few Yamaha guitars. In 1975, Joe moved Allegro Music upstairs to its current location.

In 1983, Herman Mallinger bought the store. He taught violin and woodwinds and his daughter Rosyl taught piano.

After spending 20 years as an employee of Allegro Music, Frank Cretaro decided it was time for a change. So when Herman put the store up for sale, Frank seized the opportunity and became the third owner of Allegro Music.

From our humble beginnings, we have grown into one of Toronto’s most respected and diversified music stores and schools.

Your musical journey begins here!®