The hallway leading to Music on the Hill. Photo by Sarah Anne Hughes.

In Washington, D.C., there are over a dozen shops that sell cupcakes, yet the city only has two stores that sell instruments.

Middle C in Tenleytown is the only shop in the District that sells a range of instruments and accessories, does repairs, and offers lessons, while the Guitar Gallery in Cleveland Park focuses on selling, repairing, and teaching people how to play string instruments. Now a new shop on the edge of Capitol Hill, owned by an ex-Middle C employee, is taking a small step to bring this kind of store out of the Northwest.

Music on the Hill will open tomorrow at 1453 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, just above a corner liquor store. Owner Lindy Campbell, who worked at Middle C for six years, said she was house hunting in the neighborhood and thought, “Man, Capitol Hill needs a music store.” And now it has one.

The shop will focus on music lessons, while also selling guitar strings and picks, reeds, drum sticks, ukuleles, and a wide selection of sheet music. Most instruments, like guitars, are not currently being sold at Music on the Hill. That’s because Campbell wants to gauge the need of the neighborhood first.

“I’m waiting to see what really latches on,” Campbell said.

For the time being, the store has 10 music teachers, who offer lessons on the acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute, ukulele, and percussion instruments. Music on the Hill will also offer “Mommy and Me” classes and a ukulele class to preschoolers, which Campbell, a drum teacher, originated at Middle C.

To mark the launch of the store Saturday, soprano ukuleles will be 60 percent off and sheet music will be 10 percent off.

Want to see Music on the Hill become Capitol Hill’s first guitar shop? Make yourself known.