Folk music fans have long been familiar with the trade name Hobgoblin, for twenty five years the source of all types of traditional instruments from melodeons to harps. There is now a Hobgoblin shop in Nottingham's city centre , franchised by Steve Turner, an ex-professional folk singer and musician with 25 years experience of folk music and its instruments. Here we offer a wide choice of traditional instruments, sheet music, accessories, CD's and much more. The shop is crammed with an amazing selection of guitars, banjos, mandolas, bouzoukis, didgeridoos, djembes, accordions, flutes, whistles, violins, bagpipes, melodeons and such treasures as second-hand Wheatstone, Lachenal and Jeffries concertinas, Gibson mandolins and Martin guitars. The makes we offer include Gremlin, Yamaha, Hohner and Fylde, to name but a few.
Customers are welcome to browse and try instruments in the shop.
The friendly, helpful staff can access details of more second-hand instruments available at other branches, and provide a wide variety of information on topics like obscure concertina fingerings or rare instruments. A second branch of Turner Violins , stocking mainly old violins, violas, cellos, double basses and bows has opened on the floor below Hobgoblin, together with a new outlet of Nottingham's long established woodwind and brass specialist Toot Sweet . Please click on the thumbnail below for a map.