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Instrument Storage

We appreciate that it can be hard to hide an instrument that you’ve bought as a present for someone; hence our storage service.

We will happily keep any instrument you purchase from us safe and sound for you up to Christmas Eve when we will be open by appointment for you to collect it. Contact us for more details.

If you really want that special instrument for Christmas but simply can’t make the pennies stretch that far we can recommend Recital Funding. Please note we are not paid for referrals and are in no way financially attached to them. See our home page for more details and the link to their home page.

Bespoke Instruments


We know many people like to treat themselves or a loved one to a new instrument for Christmas. And you are probably wondering why we are talking about Christmas when it’s barely the middle of August.

Well, unless you’re planning to buy an instrument from our showroom, now is the time to order your instrument so that it will be ready for you to collect in time for Christmas. Yes, really!

It takes a minimum of three months to hand craft an instrument and, in our experience, it is usually around 4 months from our luthiers. This means that ordering now you can expect your instrument to be ready mid-December; just in time for Christmas.

So, please plan ahead and get your orders in as soon as possible. Thank you.

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Instruments for Christmas

We know first hand how many of you enjoy giving someone you love an instrument for Christmas.

Some of you have asked why we ask so many questions about the person you’re buying it for.  The reason is simple, without the person you’re buying for being there we have to find the right instrument for them in absentia.  Hence we will ask about their experience, what sort of music they like, the genre they play, and what their playing style is.  We then use that information to select an instrument or two that we think would suit them.

We know it’ll be obvious to some of you but, given our luthiers aren’t too far away, we don’t tend to keep multiples of the same instrument in stock.  This means that if you saw an instrument earlier in the year we cannot guarantee to still have it come Christmas.  We may have one of the same type, or we may have to see whether the luthier has one that can be sent.

Unfortunately, if we don’t have one and the luthier doesn’t have one we will have to have it made for you.  Depending on what you’ve selected this will take a minimum of 3 months, and may take up to 4 or 5, which means you’ll need to consider switching to a birthday or getting in early for next Christmas.

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