Daves Accordion School & Caballero Dance

This is a treasure of a find. I needed someone to teach my grandson Happy Birthday on the Accordion and they were so lovely and helpful and kind and patient.

Dave’s is accordion heaven! Anything accordion is on the menu: sales, repairs, tuning, lessons. I have had the pleasure of buying my accordions and taking lessons there for over a decade, it’s been great. Dave and Veronika run a wonderful place.

I started taking accordion lessons one year ago with Dave. He does a great job of motivating me to excel and progress in my lessons. Both Dave and his wife Veronika are super nice and very dedicated to helping their students. I also take guitar lessons from Ron Swanson. I can’t say enough great things about his talent and teaching abilities! A Saturday afternoon at Dave’s Accordion School is the highlight of my week!

I’ve been coming here for about a month for accordion lessons. Dave and Veronika and everyone else in the shop are all super nice and helpful. I have a masters degree in music and would like to say that I’m really enjoying the lessons. I always go home motivated and eager to work on the new material for the week. When you walk into this shop you can immediately tell that it’s been a long standing institution in the neighborhood. All the people here really care about what they do.

nice and friendly place. fixing my 60 year old accordion now. let you know in a few weeks.

Simply the greatest music school, store, repair shop I’ve ever been to. I brought in a vintage Concertina (like a small accordion) which had 1 bad key. They fixed it in 2 minutes and didn’t even charge me. I’d return here for lessons, instrument purchase or just to hang out with these amazing folks. Highly recommended!

What a cool shop, I go once a week to get better at playing the guitar, which I only recently started playing, Ron Swanson is teaching me and is a heck of a nice guy.
I highly Recommend them for sure

I am a local star in the powerful west end. Marina del /​Rey. I was completely lost after calling the local musicians union to help me in my humble Plight to find an accordion player. But the PEOPLE AT DAVES Accordion School and Caballero Dance knew exactly what I needed and d even if I was unclear about it myself, after I hung up the phone I cried, because i knew I was spot on, for calling them. This is the right place to find your dreams.

Altho I have not studied with this teacher I have been playing accordion for 65 years (I am 78) and have seen him play. He has been around a long time and I think he must be
one of the best

Dave and his staff are lovely people. Took my husbands Super 5 Cordovox in to have it retuned to A-​440 and some minor musette tuning. As promised it was completed in 2 weeks including some unknown damage to the case. Even was able to purchase a USA made carry case for it. Two year warranty on the workmanship. Wonderful experience! Hubby is all smiles.

After wanting to play the accordion for years, I finally bought a slightly broken one. I brought it into Dave’s Accordion School and it was apparently a very easy fix which they did for free. Dave and his wife Veronika are the nicest people and I immediately felt taken care of. Veronika has been teaching me accordion and I’ve already done through one level. It seems so logical under her tutelage and it’s my new favorite thing.
If you’ve ever wanted to learn accordion or need your instrument fixed, there’s pretty much nowhere else to go anyway, but it doesn’t hurt that Dave, Veronika and their crew are awesome and obviously so passionate about music.

I love the owners! They have such a good heart! — I actually used to come here for their dance studio, which I used to rent to practice and rehearse salsa routines. There is plenty of parking after about 4 – 5 PM, and the space is private, intimate, and spacious! They also love the fact that it is being used and like to watch sometimes, or to simply see finished routines. They adore dance.
As far as Accordions, from what little I understand, they are a TOP location for some serious «accordion musicians» in all of the world. I actually saw a Mexican guy dressed in gold (pretty much) buying some pretty expensive accordions in there. It happened that he was a famous musicians from a famous Mexican band known worldwide. Just saying… that must’ve been very important! ;-)
Anyway, go there for music lessons for kids or adults, to buy instruments, or to dance!

My 8 yr. old son has been taking guitar lessons with Michael Hayes for almost 2 years now. Michael is very patient and great at keeping the lessons fun and interesting.

My son (age 6) has been taking guitar lessons here since Jan ’10 with impressive results. The guitar teacher is extremely patient and fun. A great place for music lessons for people of all ages.

I just started taking accordion from Dave’s Accordion School a few weeks ago and it’s going very well. Veronika and Dave are so patient and encouraging, even as I flail through lessons. I strongly recommend it… I’m having a blast.

If you live on the west coast accordion centric places are far and few between so Dave’s Accordion school is the beacon of light in this accordion-​less town that is Los Angeles. Dave and his wife run the store which offers sales, service and lessons. I know of no other place to get an accordion fixed in Los Angeles but if anyone else does let me know. As for lessons if you are a beginner in accordion you will get lessons from Dave’s wife or their assistant. If you are good enough Dave will give you the lessons due to the high demand of his services (I’m not kidding). I’ve gotten my accordion fixed their and received lessons from Dave. The location is kind of random but if you are the only game in town it doesn’t really matter. Around 30 bucks for a half hour lesson. Pay per lesson or buy a bunch up front.

dave and his wife veronika are wonderful – and wonderfully patient– teachers. if you are even a little bit interested in learning how to play the accordion, you have to come here. i’m so glad i found this place! he also sells and repairs accordions, and has some really good deals.