Definition: A free reed instrument with a keyboard originating in Saxony and Bohemia, now common throughout the world in folk music. Various types include piano and button keyboards, and chromatic and diatonic tunings. Read the full Accordions FAQ Page.
Around the world there are many variations of bowed and wheel driven folk instruments. We offer Er Hu - China's most popular solo instrument, the Sarangi from India and occasionally other types as available. This category includes wheel-driven instruments too, so any secondhand vielles, hurdy-gurdies and symphonies appear here too.
We stock new and used violins in all our shops. Each has a full range of student and school instruments plus a selection of a dozen or so older full size instruments and electric and quiet frame violins too. Birmingham & Leeds are our specialist violin shops and have a much larger selection and repairers on site.
Birmingham & Leeds are our specialist violin shops with a much larger selection of new and used bowed instruments and repairers on site. In the other shops we stock new Cremona and Stentor instruments as well as some used violas, cellos and basses.
Hobgoblin music sells and stocks a fully comprehensive range of bows for violin, viola, 'cello and double bass. We sell new student brazil wood/horse hair bows starting from as little as £10.95 in a variety of sizes, up to and including new silver and gold mounted pernambuco bows for the professional and serious amateur player. Please enquire for prices and specifications.
