Getting started
Choosing your first instrument
Guitar, ukulele, keyboard or harmonica? An honest guide to the instrument that will actually get you playing.
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Musical instruments & accessories
Instruments that ask to be played.
From bench-built guitars to pocket harmonicas, every instrument arrives set up, tuned and ready to sing. Hand-picked, and played before it ships.
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instruments & accessories
In focus this season
Hand-picked
The workshop
A playable instrument, not a box to unpack
Every instrument that leaves here goes across the bench: checked, tuned and set up before it ships. You open the case and play.
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Selection
We only stock instruments we would play ourselves — tested by ear and by hand, never just from a catalogue.
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Bench setup
Lowered action, checked intonation, fresh strings: every string and key is adjusted before dispatch.
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Tuned & played
Nothing leaves untuned and unplayed. If it does not sound right on the bench, it does not ship.
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Packed with care
Protected for the journey and shipped within 48 hours, so the instrument arrives exactly as it left the workshop.
In focus this season
A playable instrument, not a box to unpack
Two musicians, tired of watching beginners give up on unplayable instruments, decided to sell only what they would set up for themselves. The rule has never changed: every instrument goes across the bench before it ships.
Our workshop“A well set-up instrument teaches; a badly set-up one discourages.”
That is why every guitar, ukulele and violin goes across the bench before it reaches you.
Set up by hand
Tuned before it ships
Advice from musicians
The notebook
