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Making Music in Bromley, Greater London*

Bromley, Greater London Guitars and Instruments, Recording Studios, Rehearsal Rooms, PA Hire

Musical Instrument Shops and DJ Gear

• TMT - has just moved a bit further down the one way system, near the petrol station. Amazing shop!! friendly services and advise.
• theres one in west wickham which is quite good
• uhh, theres 1 near the cinema, but its not very good. You dont get the higher quality in there. Tysoes in farnborough is the best place to go, its where i got all my trumpets, guitars, saxaphones and trombones
• Normans, Eltham
• Reids. Has nice pianos. Also a shop on Widmore Road, may still be called Unisound.
• there's good old unisound half way down widmore road which is actually pretty good
• Theres a shop near the cinema, its along that road but i dont know the name. Theres Unisound which is along a row of shops outside of bromley towars bickley, its by the traffic lights.
• Reids on the high street opposite that failure Zumo or Sumo, whatever it was called.
• Theres one but duznt sell a huge range of musical instruments but has got alota books.
• Unisound in Widmore Road is often worth a visit, Cliff is v. friendly and they do sell books in addition to instruments.
• a couple of good shops at bromley north that are v.equipped
• Here http://www.knowhere.co.uk/128_shops.html you say art nash in Penge is useful, but it's closed down nown i'm afraid.
• Wing Music & Hire 442 Upper Elmers End Road, Beckenham, Kent. Br3 3HQ 020 8650 1118 A wide range of vintage & contempary musical equipment. Sound & light hire, sales & installation. Establihed 1972 (longest established music shop in the area)
• Art Nash in Penge are very helpful

Recording Studios, Rehearsal Rooms, PA Hire

• Scream - Croydon say no more
• dnt go to unisound, im sorry but cliff is just... well i cant say it. The other day i asked about what guitar was better and he just said thats a compltely hypathetical question? and then he told me to buy both, when i said i cant afford both he just said "well ive got both". hes not frendly hes a conman, hes prices are ott, he said he could sell me a guitar for £1000 when its only worth £600. go to gak instead.
• A good friend of mine has just set up a new ProTools HD3 studio in Orpington, really mint setup and quite cheap as well...their site is www.worldsendsound.com...check it out!
• Ascape Suite is like the studios in London without the make you feel small mentality. They've got great equipment and are friendly and very in to what they do. They obviously do stuff for major labels, as when I was sitting in the lounge area I heard two people leaving messages on the answer machine one from Interscope records in California then another from Warner in the space of an hour. Very cool. Bromley needs something big musically other than the Churchill.
• Redroom Productions in West Wickham is run by some very experienced producers with history and they have a studio and offer affodable recording and production.Their website is www.redroomproductions.co.uk

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Last updated: 2007-04-27