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Promenade Music are delighted to once again be UK dealers for the Gibson brand, including Gibson, Epiphone and Maestro Effects.

Gibson was founded by Orville Gibson who originally made mandolins in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the late 1890s. He developed the making of archtop guitars and by the 1930s, the company was also making flat-top acoustic guitars, as well as one of the first commercially available hollow-body electric guitars, which were used and popularized by Charlie Christi...

Markbass Bass Amp Sale!

We've been stocking Mark Bass amps for many years now. They're designed and made in Italy by bass player Marco de Virgiliis and his team who formed MarkBass in 2001.

Many bass players love the Markbass sound, and the fact they are lightweight and reliable. In fact, a lot of the developments in recent years in bass amp design were originated by Markbass. For example, they were the first to use lightweight Neodymium speakers, vastly reducing the we...

Korg Drumlogue Analog/Digital Hybrid Drum Machine - NOW IN STOCK!

Back in January 2020, Korg announced some future products. One of those was the Korg Drumlogue. 

There was a short teaser video and some very dark pictures of a black drum machine, and them ... NOTHING!

Finally, at the end of January 2023 - it's in stock!

Exciting! In a nutshell, it's a hybrid drum machine with both analog and digital features, you can combine both, plus effects and also impo...

Upgrade to a new Yamaha b series and receive up to £500 minimum contribution! 

Yamaha are offering up to £500 minimum contribution to customers who part exchange their current digital or acoustic piano for any new Yamaha B Series acoustic, Silent (SC3)

Yamaha B1

Yamaha B2

Yamaha B3

Yamaha Silent SC3

* Pianos eligible for upgrade include: ...

Electro-Harmonix (EHX) Pedals were establised over 50 years ago in 1968, New York, USA by Mike Matthews.

Mike has had a very colourful life, and his first foray into pedal-making was making fuzz pedals, some which were branded as being made by Guild.

Mike made his own and this eventually lead to the formation of EHX.

There have been various ups and downs ...

FENDER HAMMERTONE PEDALS 

Fender's new Hammertone pedals are the essential building blocks of any board.

Used individually or stacked to create a chain, these nine must-have effects can tackle any tone.

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ESSENTIAL EFFECTS

When you’re putting together any pedal board, delay, reverb, overdrive are just a few of the must-haves … not nice-to-haves.

DESIGNED IN-HOUSE

Hand-crafted by our resident tone guru, Stan Cot...

The new Roland AIRA Compact Series includes the T-8, E-4 and J-6 which build on the legacy of classic Roland sounds from the TR808, TR909, TB303 and Juno drum machines & synths.

The T-8 includes sounds from the TR-808 and 909 classic drum machines, the E-4 builds on the TR3 and TR4 voice transformers and the J in the J-6 stands for JUNO!

Between them, these have been responsible for a massive amount of both classic and contemporary electronic music, hip-hop, pop music an...

In a relatively short period, Korg released 3 new synths in a row - all digital, all with a similar look, the same amount of keys and so on.

They all do something different, but it's not immediately obvious to the untrained eye and ear what those differences are.

Luckily, Korg have done a comparision video, so you can more easily know which one is the most suitable for you.

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Promenade Music are delighted to stock Pickaso Bows - a nifty little bow that allows an acoutic guitar player to bow and produce bowed instrument type tones.

The Pickaso Guitar Bow combines a pick and bow in one. It gives the acoustic guitarist a completely different approach to playing, by letting them produce the sound of a bowed string instrument. With hair on both ...

Promenade Music are delighted to once again be dealers for Guild Guitars.

Starting in Manhatten in 1952, and quickly moved to Hoboken, New Jersey, Guild quickly became established as a maker of great archtop eletric guitars and then folk guitars, with their 12-string guitars particularly gaining a solid reputation.

In 1966, Guild moved to Westerley, Rhode Isl...