Instrument Loan

Double basses.

Alto, tenor and baritone saxophones.

Range of brass instruments.

Permanent drum kits, amps and pianos located in jazz rooms.

A number of drum kits, amps, PAs microphones and keyboards available to book out for personal practice and external gigs.

Find out more about our Jazz Department

Access to a diverse range of models, from Steinway to Bösendorfer and Fazioli.

A range of period instruments including several single- and double-manual harpsichords, fortepianos, a chamber organ, and a Karen Richter clavichord.

Organ students will learn and perform on several different instruments, both within the college and at numerous London churches and cathedrals with which we have close relationships.

Find out more about our Keyboard Department

A range of bowed string instruments, guitars and harps, including period instruments are available for short-term loan.

Find out more about our Strings Department

Woodwind

A range of woodwind instruments are available to loan, often on a long-term basis. These include piccolos; alto flutes; bass flute; cor anglais; oboes d’amore; E-flat clarinets; C clarinets; A clarinets; basset horns; bass clarinets; contrabass clarinets in E-flat and B-flat; contrabassoons; and sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass saxophones.

Brass

The department holds a large collection of modern and period brass instruments that students can borrow, often on long-term loan. These include:

piccolo trumpets; E-flat trumpets; cornets; flugel horns; alto trombones; tenor trombones; bass trombone; alphorns; natural trumpets; cornetts; hand horns; and alto, tenor and bass sackbuts. Many of our brass students choose to take a period instrument as a second study.

Dedicated practice suites for brass and percussion are available, as well as a reed making facility for woodwind. 

Find out more about our Wind, Brass & Percussion Department