Useful Links

• Hornplayer.net

• The Clarinet and Saxophone Society 

• The UK Trombone Society 

• The Benslow Music Trust

• The British Double Reed Society

• The National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians (USA)

• Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians resource site - Probirt (USA)

• The British Violin Making Association

Suppliers and Services

• Able-labels, Northampton - personalised labels of all shapes and sizes           

• Axminster Tools - a wide range of hand and power tools and consumables 

• CAT Systems - design and specialist tools

•  Chronos Ltd, Dunstable - engineering and model making tools

•  Early Music Shop, Bradford - boxwood, early instrument kits    

•  Fry's Metals obtainable from Toolshop Direct        

•  GLR Distributors, Hertford - stainless steel and other metals, model making tools and equipment

• FH Lambert, Watford - plating, lacquering and brass repairs

• Metalsmith Ltd, Nothamptonshire - material stockists and precision engineering

• Ormiston Wire, manufacturers of binding wire and springs            

• Tonetech Luthier Supplies – materials and accessories for string instrument makers

• Touchstone Tonewoods, Reigate - Violin and guitar makers/repairers tools and supplies  

• Windcraft, Maidenhead - repair materials for brass and woodwind.  Also sale of instruments

•  Wind Plus, Leicester - woodwind repair materials

Instruments

• Ackerman Music, Hove - sale of instruments (and repairs)

• Andrew Hooker Violins, Frome - sale and repair of fine violins

• Buffet - Crampon, Paris - manufacture of woodwind instruments

• Dawkes Music, Maidenhead - sale of instruments (and repairs)

• George Gladstone, Darlington - sale of instruments (and repairs)

• Hogan Music, Reading - sale of instruments (and repairs)

• Howarth of London - manufacture and sale of woodwind instruments (and repairs)

• John Carpenter Violins, Swansea - sale of instruments (and repairs to violins)  

• London Musical Instruments - manufacture of brass instruments

• MIR, Halesowen - sale of instruments (and repairs)

• Paxman, London - manufacture of french horns (and repairs)

• Tadley Instruments, Hants - sale of instruments (and repairs)

• Vandoren, Paris - maker of reeds

• Woodwind and Reed, Cambridge - sale of instruments (and repairs)