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Musicale Ltd
Homecroft
Sun Lane
Harpenden
Herts
AL5 4GJ
Music School Telephone:
+44 (0)1582 713333
Holiday and Music Courses Telephone:
+44 (0)1582 460978
Music Shop Telephone:
+44 (0)1582 769712
Fax: +44 (0)1582 767343
Email:
Musicale – a very potted history
| 1977 | Started in Gill and David Johnston’s front room |
| 1978 | Rooms hired out in the High Street Methodist Church |
| 1979 | Private houses used for visiting trainers |
| 1982 | Harpenden Musicale performs at a packed Royal Festival Hall, London |
| 1983 | Harpenden Musicale opens a retail shop |
| 1984 | First Musicale Holiday outside Harpenden takes place in Salisbury |
| 1986 | Harpenden Musicale becomes Musicale PLC and moves everything under one roof, in the shape of a three storey Edwardian house with concert hall attached, housing a three manual organ, all set in a beautiful garden. |
| 1987 | Harpenden Musicale performs to a packed Barbican Hall, London |
| 1991 | Harpenden Musicale forms Lyons Musicale Ltd and acquires the license to manufacture and distribute the Lyons C Clarinet worldwide |
| 1992 | Harpenden Musicale performs again at the Barbican Hall, London |
| 1993 | Harpenden Musicale starts a Primary Schools’ Peripatetic Instrumental Scheme |
| 2000 | After 14 wonderful years with a board of directors ‘anyone would give a million dollars for‘ , Gill and David Johnston buy out their shareholders and move the whole operation to Homecroft, a derelict group of buildings on the edge of the St George’s School site. After complete renovation, the building houses 12 music rooms, 3 offices, a library, a storage facility and the shop. |
| 2010 | Harpenden Musicale renews its lease with St George’s School and continues its unique partnership with the school, which includes providing a peripatetic service for the school’s pupils, and also hiring the schools facilities and boarding houses for the Musicale Young Artists’ Programme and Summer Holiday Music Leisure |
About 1000 people pass through Musicale each week, and the shop has customers all over the world. We hope you will join us. Whether it be to supply a clarinet reed, or to book you in for Roundabouts, you can be sure that you will receive the very best of our attention and experience.
