Favourite Music Shops, ... share recommendations Options

[skylark]

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I found a fantastic shop for new sheet music whilst I was on holiday - it was only small but they crammed masses of music into it, and also a really good range of musical gifts and accessories. I can thoroughly recommend it if you're in the area - it's a bit out of town but well worth going to - Gillian Greig Music just outside Taunton.

Has anyone else got any music shops they'd like to recommend people to visit if they're in the area???

(NB. If you have any recommendations for shops selling *second-hand* sheet music, there's a separate thread called Great Little Shops for Second-hand Sheet Music (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )


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List updated to Post #93 and also includes shops mentioned on various other threads.


NORTH/NORTH EAST
BEVERLEY: Beverley Music Centre
BRADFORD: Early Music Shop (instruments, sheet music, CDs)
BRADFORD: The Woodwind Exchange (instruments)
CLECKHEATON: The Music Room, www.themusicroom-online.co.uk (folk instruments, guitars)
DARLINGTON: George Gladstone, www.georgegladstone.co.uk (woodwind, brass, keyboards, sheet music)
DERBY: Foulds (instruments, sheet music)
HARROGATE: ABC Music, 192 Kings Road, HG1 5JG, 01423 817 700 www.harrogate.abcmusic.co.uk (instruments, sheet music)
HARROGATE: Music House, 18 Cheltenham Parade, HG1 1DB, 01423 705770 (instruments, sheet music)
LEEDS: John Scheerer & Sons, Merrion Centre (instruments, sheet music)
NEWCASTLE: Windows Music Shop, Central Arcade
NEWCASTLE: JG Windows
POCKLINGTON: Pocklington Music
YORK: Banks (instruments, sheet music, gifts, accessories)


NORTH WEST
BOLTON: Boothes
BOLTON: Hawker & Howarth
ECCLES: Drum Centre
FALLOWFIELD: Alan Gregory
LIVERPOOL: Music Notes, North John Street, http://www.music-notes.net/
MANCHESTER: Forsyth's (sheet music, pianos. orchestral and band instruments)
MANCHESTER: Johnny Roadhouse/Hobgoblin, Oxford Road
MANCHESTER: Sound Control, M602 (electronic stuff and some guitars)
MANCHESTER: Sound Control, Oxford Road (guitars and resident luthier)
MANCHESTER: Paul Ayers, Didsbury (makes and repairs violins, violas and cellos)
MANCHESTER: The Music Box, Bury Old Road (Yamaha pianos, and a few other makes, and piano stools)
MORECAMBE: Promenade Music (music, instruments), www.promenademusic.co.uk


MIDLANDS/EAST ENGLAND/HOME COUNTIES
BANBURY: One Man Band (guitars)
BIRMINGHAM: Turner Violins, Digbeth
BIRMINGHAM: MIR (Musical Instrument Repairs)
BISHOPS FROME (Worcestershire): Allegro Music, www.allegro.co.uk (organ music specialists)
BEACONSFIELD (Bucks): Strings
BURY ST EDMUNDS: Balaam's Music (mixed recommendations!)
CAMBRIDGE: Brian Jordan Music, Green Street
CAMBRIDGE: Cambridge Pianoforte Centre and Music Gallery, Kings Hedges Road, http://www.cambridgemusic.net/
CAMBRIDGE: Millers
CAMBRIDGE: Wood Wind & Reed (helpful on phone but not visited)
HITCHIN: Myatts
LEICESTER: Sheehan's
LINCOLN: Counterpoint Music
NORWICH: Topjoint
NOTTINGHAM: Windblowers
OXFORD: Blackwell's Music Shop, Broad Street (sheet music, CDs, books, gifts)
RUGBY: Freeman and Neale (MAY HAVE CLOSED)
STOURBRIDGE: MIR
WARE: Play SomeThing (pianos, instruments)
WORCESTERSHIRE: Vale Pianos


LONDON
Howarths (instruments)
London Recorder Centre (sheet music)
sax.co.uk (instruments)
Topwind
Barbican: Chimes Music, www.chimesmusic.com
Charing Cross Road: Foyles music dept (sheet music)
Cranbourne Street: The Spanish Guitar Centre (guitars)
Denmark Street: Argents (sheet music)
Denmark Street: World of Drums (drums)
East Dulwich: The South London Music Shop
Duke Street: The London Guitar Studio (guitars)
Great Marlborough Street: Schotts (sheet music)
Kensington: Kensington Chimes, www.chimesmusic.com
Marylebone High Street: Chimes (sheet music), www.chimesmusic.com/
Marylebone Road - Royal Academy of Music: Chimes (sheet music), www.ram.ac.uk/about/shop.htm
Muswell Hill: Les Aldrich
Northcote Road: Northcote Road Music Shop
Piccadilly Circus: Footes
152-160 Wardour Streeet, W1F 8YA: Chappells (instruments, sheet music, CDs)
60-61 Warren Street: All Flutes Plus, www.allflutesplus.co.uk
16 Wigmore Street): Brittens Music, www.brittensmusic.co.uk


SOUTH EAST
COLCHESTER: Mann's Music
CROYDON: Just Flutes
CROYDON: Martin Phelps
KENT (Tonbridge Wells): Brittens, www.brittensmusic.co.uk
KENT/SOUTH LONDON: The Bookshop, New Ash Green, Longfield, 01474 874194
SURREY (Haslemere) - Chamberlains (new/secondhand instruments, rental, repairs, sheet music, accessories, gifts)
SURREY (West Byfleet) : Brittens, www.brittensmusic.co.uk


SOUTH/SOUTH WEST
BATH: Duck Son and Pinker/Milsom & Son's, Milsom Street/High Street
BRISTOL: Hobgoblin Bristol (Musicroom), 30 College Green, BS1 5TB, 0117 929 0902, www.hobgoblin.com/bristol (instruments, sheet music, CDs)
BRISTOL: Providence Music, 1 St Georges Road, BS1 5UL, 0117 927 6536, www.providencemusic.co.uk (serious sheet music, CDs)
BRISTOL: Music Room
BRISTOL: Mickleburgh Pianos
CLEVEDON: Clevedon Music Shop
CORNWALL (Hayle): Kershaw Music
GLOUCESTERSHIRE: Fullers, Cinderford (string music, mail order)
EXETER: Music Room
SALISBURY: Music Room (formerly Percy Priors) (beginner instruments, sheet music)
TAUNTON: Gillian Greig Music, 44 Kingston Road, Taunton TA2 7SG, 01823 333317 (sheet music, gifts, accessories)
TAUNTON: John Packers (Brass and Woodwind specialists)


SCOTLAND
GLASGOW: Biggars, Sauchiehall Street (re-opened)
GLASGOW: McCormacks, Bath Street
EDINBURGH: The Wind Section (instruments)
INVERNESS: The Music Shop

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[LoopyLoz]

I love going to Booths in Bolton, and they are nearly my second family. I also have my violin lessons there.

I get on with all the main members of staff in the shop, and also both of the drum teachers. So far I have loved the experience of going in and ordering my first violin, to buying books to get through to my grade 5 theory (even though I'm not that far in advance as yet, as I've only just started). Also off other teachers and students I've been given advice on music theory exams, and I asked a student what piece of music they were playing in the shop. If they don't have the piece of music you want in store, they will order it for you, and it comes within a week. On the shop floor they are always changing the displays for different instruments, but they are always happy to help you, and to give you recommendations for instruments, which aren't in stock.

I know this because when I ordered my first violin I didn't want a cheap violin outfit, I wanted something that would see me through a good few years, and through them I managed to get what I wanted, even though I had to buy the bow seperate, but I knew that anyway, as I wanted a carbon fibre bow. They also managed to do it within my budget. So I was a very happy bunny (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I know I've chatted on for a bit, but that is much I really enjoy going to Booths.

I've also been to the other two music stores in Bolton, which are HW Music Megastore on St Georges Rd, and Harker and Howarth's (the piano specialists) not too sure what the road is called through, and I wouldn't recommend them to anybody, as they have really slow customer service, it takes forever for a member of staff to help you, and if you wanted a price for a certain instrument that you liked the of, fancied buying DON'T go to HW Music Megastore, as they never ring back with a price.

[notmusimum]

I love going to Booths in Bolton, and they are nearly my second family. I also have my violin lessons there.

I've also been to the other two music stores in Bolton, which are HW Music Megastore on St Georges Rd, and Harker and Howarth's (the piano specialists) not too sure what the road is called through, and I wouldn't recommend them to anybody, as they have really slow customer service, it takes forever for a member of staff to help you, and if you wanted a price for a certain instrument that you liked the of, fancied buying DON'T go to HW Music Megastore, as they never ring back with a price.

I know Booths too, the staff are very friendly, found Hawker and Howarths a week or so ago by chance. Must admit H and H is a fantastic store for Pianos and keyboards but the staff were enjoying gossiping too much to engage.


I recently visited Alan Gregory in Failsworth. They seem to stock quite a variety of items and were most helpful when we were urgently searching for a book the other week.

[violincjj]

I recently visited Alan Gregory in Failsworth. They seem to stock quite a variety of items and were most helpful when we were urgently searching for a book the other week.

It's a great place (but that area is Fallowfield isn't it?) - very efficient and knowledgeable, lots of sheet music to look at and very sound advice on buying/maintaining instruments.