County Link

Lancashire Music Service The county ensemble page on the Lancashire NGFL site.

Sponsor Links

The Violin Shop H. George & Son, Blackpool: Restorers, Repairers & Dealers in violins, violas, cellos, double-basses and bows.

The Music Cellar Fox Street, Preston. They offer expertise in pianos as well as woodwind and brass, guitars, music and digital pianos

Mediaprint Solutions Ltd. Lytham - our programme printers

Clitheroe Music and Instruments Ltd - there is a 10% discount (from shop prices) available to all members of the LSSO and LYSO for non sale items on production of proof of membership of the orchestras

Other Music Links

Awards for Young Musicians - A charitable organisation that provides financial help to talented musicians - the annual awards closing date for applications is usually in March.

Sibelius (music composing software) - Recommended software for writing music scores - as used in many high schools and colleges.

Sibelius Music Store - Over 90,000 pieces of sheet music available to buy (many are free - use advanced search), you will need to install the scorch plugin to use this site.

Hofnote Aural Training - Need help with aural tests for your music exams. Here you can enrol for 4 months access to aural training/testing at your grade level.

Werner Ickling sheet music archive Need free sheet music for your brass/string/woodwind ensemble - look no further! A large but very random selection of mainly classical music (i.e. out of copyright!) available in PDF format.

FreeSheetMusic.net Some free music (mainly classical) in GIF or PDF format (often in a ZIP file). Also links to other web sites.

SheetMusicArchive.net Music in PDF format, mainly classical, extensive choice though you're limited to 2 downloads per day.