About Us
Established 1987, we service Center Moriches 11934 Manorville 11949, Shirley 11967, the Mastics 11955. Due to our history and community service, we are the best place for music lessons.
The Best Place for Music Lessons
Introducing our founder Jeff Denny
What better start for music lessons in Center Moriches. Endorsed by Gibson / Steinberger Guitars. Labella String Co. Jeff attended NAMM (National Association of music merchants) shows as a guest of the Gibson guitar company to play their Steinberger guitars at the Gibson Booth. This is truly the best place for music lessons.
Openers
Jeff has opened for Rick Derringer, Johnny Winters Bassist Jeff Ganz. He also played with Bernard Purdy, Jules Radino, Bobby Rondinelli, and many other famous Rock and Roll artists.
Jeff was the lead guitarist for Long Island’s number one wedding band “Fantasia”from the year 1984 through 1990
Experience
Jeff Denny has been playing the guitar for over 50 years, a staple throughout the New York music scene. Performing at many places from Atlantic City to Montauk Point including The Brookhaven Cultural Center at Bald Hill, Suffolk County Fair, Rockland County Fair, Oyster Fest, Hollywood Beach Clambake, NYS County Fair at Tioga, Riverhead Blues Festival, Vail-Leavitt Theater Long Island Funfest and many more. Born and Raised in Brooklyn NY Jeff moved to Woodstock then to Texas. Finally he migrated to Shirley LI in 1984.
The Best Place for Music Lessons
where he started the Music Station a School for Music and Performance. Jeff has taught countless music lessons on Long Island. From humble beginnings. The Music Station has blossomed and serves the community well. He also offers his expertise at clinics and libraries where he can connect with larger groups of students throughout the Long Island area.
Miss Lori,
Running the back end of all our services including Administration, billing and scheduling music lessons amongst the many other things that she does for The Music Station
We Teach All Instruments as well as Vocals, Theory, Recording and Composition. It’s the best place for music lessons to cover all aspects of music education.
We boast the best teachers on Long Island
·We do everything
· Concerts
· Glee Clubs (um what is a glee club)
· Chamber Orchestra
· Open Mic Night
· Clinics
· Workshops. We are the best place for music lessons and musical events.
A comprehensive music lessons shop in Center Moriches
Jeff Denny’s Music Station offers experience, lessons, sound systems
Jeff Denny and Lori Ellington Nocita at Jeff Denny’s Music Station. Denny offers instruction in band, jazz, rock band and vocals and has a recording studio setup.
By CATHY MEINHOLD
Tucked between two stores in a small shopping center on Wading River Road in Center Moriches, Jeff Denny’s Music Station looks like just another little music store offering a few lessons and some guitar supplies. First impressions are often wrong and Jeff Denny and his shop are the proof. The unassuming entrance is actually a gateway to a full service music store and school, carrying everything from mandolin stings to full size sound and light systems and offering huge variety of services.
Passion
Denny is a lifelong musician whose ambition has always been to share his passion for music with others. An accomplished guitarist, Denny began teaching lessons out of his basement studio more than 20 years ago. As his reputation spread, he outgrew his studio and took on a basement space in a rental building on Montauk Hwy. His business quickly doubled, and for several years, he was content. When the opporturity to take on a full sized shop arose, Denny reluctantly took over the space and added a retail section to his burgeoning business. “Im a musician, a player: I never wanted a music store, I just wanted to perform and teach lessons,” he said. But he realized that with the larger space, it made sense to expand into retail. Fate intervened in the form of Lori Ellington. “That year, I met Lori and she was an inspiration and a big help in getting the retail side started” The business began to grow. 8 years ago, they moved the shop to its current location next to the Staples shopping center, two doors down from Subway. “Ever since then we’ve been growing and growing” he said.
The Old Store
The front of the store is filled with an array of music equip-ment, both new and used Guitars line the wall and drums and amplifiers are stacked waiting for future rock stars. In the back, Denny had six lessons rooms, often occupied by students being taught by one of his highly qualified teachers.
“All my instructors are hand-picked,” he said “What matters is how you can express yourself through music, your unique-ness. That’s what we encourage in our students” He has instructors available to teach a huge variety of instruments on a wide variety of styles: band and jam instruments, rock band instruments and vocals. In another room, Denny had a recording studio setup, and can record anything from full live bands to vocal tracks for auditions. All along the ceiling is an impressive display of show lighting, which can be rented out with sound systems for events. The Music Station carries a full line of accessories for both school band and rock band instruments, and all the lesson books and New York State School Music Association music requested by the surounding school districts.
Along with this myriad of merchandise and services, the Music Station also offers regular special events. The last Friday of each month is Open Mick Night, free to the public.
Denny clears the racks of merchandise out of the room and places chairs in front of the stage. Performers are given the rock star treatment with full lighting effects. Denny is working on forming a jazz band orchestra for a fee, responding to the loss of similar groups in the William Floyd School District. On Nov. 23 is a free drum clinic with Jules Randino of Blue Öyster Cult, who is also an instructor at the Music Station. What better way to learn rock star drumming than from a rock star.
The Burn
That was a great article written by Kathy Minehold many years ago but now I’d like to continue the story.
After a successful 8 years of business in that shopping strip next to the subway sandwich place There was a fire in one of the stores next to the music store. And that made the appearance of our music store look like we were in an abandoned building the owner of the strip mall was 80 years old and refused to fix it a wonderful man eddie said he was going to retire and move to Florida and he decided to sell the strip mall.
The New Store
Two years later we lost half the business and Laurie and I decided to scale down and just do lessons and that’s when we moved to the store on Wading River Rd. Center Moriches. We’ve been there for 6 years and we just want to continue tserving our community for as long as possible. We have been maintaining a low price for lessons and are proud to have superior teachers like, Steve Lenkoffsky, Aidan Harker, Anthony Veracci, Dennis Dawson, Donna Hailey and Kevin Smalley. We still have annual recitals And we still sell some accessories; including violin bows, strings, drum heads, pics, straps etc. We still offer a free trial lesson to prospective students. We invite everyone to come down and visit. this friendly shop full of musical surprises.
