USEFUL MUSIC LINKS
Local Music Shops:
Specialist Music Shops & Repairers:
- Malcolm Smith - sells and repairs violins, repairs violas, cellos, mandolins, banjos, melodeons and concertinas - 01636 686835 or malcolm@lambskinnet.co.uk - near Newark
- Stamford Strings - sells and repairs violins, violas, cellos - 07818 286538 or email through their website - www.stamfordstrings.co.uk - in Stamford
- Dave Jolly - sells & repairs melodeons, concertinas & accordeons, based in France but back now and again
- Acorn Instruments - supplies melodeons
- Simon Watkin - sells and repairs violins, bows, violas, cellos & mandolins - Coates, near Peterborough
- Jon Haire repairs & sets up acoustic, electric & bass guitars in Peterborough
- Dan Nicholls repairs and sets up guitars and basses - 07948 206378 - in Bourne
- Paul Wass repairs electric guitars, guitars & other instruments - 07906 281491 or pwass61@gmail.com - Spalding
- Steve Tadd - repairs flutes, clarinets, saxophones, oboes, bassoons & piccolos, good website for woodwind info - Peterborough
- Ted Brewer - sells electric violins
- Sonic Violins sells electro acoustic violins & octave violins
- Hobgoblin Music - Nottingham & Crawley
- Ash Mandolins - London & Manchester
- Headway - violin pickup
- Fiddle Pro violin mics
- Accusound instrument mics
- Traditional Tune Archive - 50,000 tunes (mainly irish) and their histories
- List of free online english music sources - buy a copy of Hardcore English, with or without CD
- Draw the Dots - translates abc notation into dots at a click
- Folk Tune finder - type in the tune and it finds it
- All about abc
Other stuff:
- EFDSS (English Folk Dance & Song Society)
- Living Tradition
- FOAOTMAD - American Old-Time Music & Dance
- Mudcat Cafe - useful for finding folk song words
- Logue Music Services - change chords to another key
- Music lessons - for violin, mandolin, acoustic, electric & bass guitar, ukulele, bass ukulele, tenor banjo & melodeon, with access to Bourne, Lincs