How Do I Choose My First Acoustic Guitar? Congratulations! You’ve decided to take up a rewarding new hobby that can lead to many days of enjoyment and personal development. Choosing your first acoustic guitar can seem like a daunting task at first. With so many options of size, shape, brand, price etc the choices can be [more…]
What we learnt on our tour around the Hoffmann and Bechstein factory tours This is not mass production-each Bechstein piano is constructed from carefully chosen materials, aiming to create unique piano models that once assembled by a single skilled worker are set up to their full potential by a hugely experienced technician. This is true [more…]
Black Friday 2018 – Mickleburgh Yes, you read that right. There will be 0% off everything across the whole Mickleburgh website and in-store for Black Friday. Wait, what!? Let us explain… At some point over the last few years, we’ve all witnessed the madness that Black Friday and Cyber Monday bring – the frenzy [more…]
Confused about all the different types of pianos and keyboard instruments available? Want to understand the difference between keyboards, digital pianos, hybrid pianos, silent pianos, trans-acoustic pianos, and acoustic pianos!? We’re here to help you understand the different terms and find out which instrument is the best for you. Here’s the rundown…. Acoustic Pianos Acoustic pianos [more…]
Your Guide To Buying Saxophone and Clarinet Reeds. Trying to decide which reeds to buy for your clarinet or saxophone? Here we’ll go through the different choices available and how they differ in sound and response! What does the reed do? The reed should be dampened slightly then put onto your mouthpiece and secured with [more…]
Electric Guitar String Buying Guide Trying to decide which strings to buy for your electric guitar? Here we’ll go through the different choices available and how they differ in sound and feel! String Gauge: The gauge is the thickness of the string in inches. Electric guitar strings range from the thinnest of .008, (8 [more…]
Your Questions Answered – Mickleburgh Piano’s Here is one of the most common Mickleburgh Piano related questions we receive. We hope our answer shed’s some light and helps you, just like it did for this Mickleburgh customer… I have a beautiful walnut Mickleburgh Upright piano which I have owned for 21 years. My piano tuner was extremely [more…]
Practice like never before…workout! of practice books for groupsAnyone who believes that practising scales and triads was never more than a compulsory exercise is proven wrong with this new Groove Connection series of practice books for groups which offers an exciting musical workout for players of all levels. The series features a tried and tested concept for the [more…]
Welcome to the Micklebugh Musical Instruments blog We’re excited to share everything musical with you in our new music blog. We will aim to cover a range of topics and themes perfect for all musicians, beginner and professional alike, covering just some of the things we’ve learn since we started business in 1903 as well [more…]
