Instrument Lending Library

Our instruments are catalogued just like books and are available to reserve and collect from any of our 12 libraries. 

Find your local library

To see what's available, visit our library catalogue and select 'musical instruments' from the dropdown list next to the search box.

Visit the library catalogue

ArtistWorks

Once you have borrowed your instrument and feel you would benefit from some tuition head to our free online resource called Artist Works which offers video lessons and real-time feedback  from Grammy award winning professional musicians across various instruments.

Find out more about ArtistWorks

Donations wanted

Our instrument lending library relies on donations. If you have any items sitting about unused that need a new lease of life, please consider letting us care for them. We accept anything from clarinets to violins, cornets to mandolins, keyboards to drum kits, anything goes! We are also looking for donations of digital equipment for either music production or DJing. 

We will maintain the instruments and make sure they are put to good use. You can drop donations off to any of our public libraries.

You can make enquiries and register donations by clicking the button below.

For large instruments like tubas, cellos, drum kits etc, or if you are looking to donate more than a couple of instruments, please also click the button below and let us know via our form. We want to make sure the libraries aren't overwhelmed so we might need to organise collection and delivery directly. 

Instrument donation form

We are very grateful to the Music Education Partnership Group and We Make Music who are supporting us and other local authorities to deliver this exciting initiative.