Chamberlain Music is a Department for Education approved supplier for the Musical Instruments, Equipment & Technology Framework
Our services to schools
Chamberlain Music was formed in 1990 and has grown over the past three decades to become one of the foremost music education suppliers in the UK.
We have around forty staff based mainly in Haslemere, Surrey. Many of our staff are experienced musicians, with a wealth of experience both in schools and in professional performance.
2024–2025 Schools & Teachers Buyers Guide
Director of Education William Thompson speaks on the 'Music Teachers in International Schools' podcast
Our showrooms and offices
We are based in Haslemere, Surrey, UK, where we have a large showroom and offices for our marketing department, education sales, publishing, accounts, and distribution teams.
Our warehouse and distribution centre
Our 35000 sq.ft warehouse is situated in the Kings Road Industrial estate, directly opposite our showroom and offices and connected by a peer-to-peer fibre connection.
We have two raised internal loading bays, piano workshops, and piano frame spray shop, lots of pallet storage space and a modern distribution packing department. We have a team of ten experienced and committed warehouse staff booking stock in and shipping goods to all across the UK and further afield.
Our Services to International schools
We are a leading supplier to the education sector and have provided instruments and equipment to almost every educational institution in the UK, more than 20,000 schools.
In recent years we have gained many new customers from further afield including many British international schools in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Far East.
Consultancy and Design
We have many years’ experiences in planning and developing new creative facilities for schools and colleges.
Our director of Education, William Thompson works closely with designers to arrive at the best solution ensuring that projects are implemented efficiently, one time and on budget. www.chamberlainmusic.com/pages/music-ict-audio-spaces
Setting the standard for order fulfilment
Our fulfilment and dispatch operation has been developed and refined over many years. We work extremely hard to make sure every order possible is processed and dispatched on the same working day. Order tracking and email notification is all part of the service.
Every item is scanned on entry and exit, and we have CCTV that monitors all booking in and as items are placed in cartons before shipping to our customers. This minimises the chances of human error and ensures near perfect accuracy!
FREE storage and call off service
When you don't have the space at school it's reassuring to know we have ample space in our modern and secure warehousing facilities. This means you can still take advantage of our amazing bulk discounts, and we can forward your goods whenever they are needed. Contact us for more details.
Warehousing and consolidation: a real one-stop shop!
We can offer a consolidation service where schools can make purchases from various suppliers in the UK but ship the complete order in a single part or full container load from our warehouse in Haslemere. You can use your own shipping agents and freight management or leave it all to us to arrange.
Our team
We employ talented musicians, skilled technicians, and music industry experts, and we're delighted to share our collective knowledge and skills with customers whenever the opportunity arises.
Our team includes specialists in piano, woodwind, and brass, stringed and plucked instruments, orchestral and classroom percussion and of course Music technology. When you contact our sales department, you can be certain that you will receive sound advice. We like to think that the test of a good supplier is the after-sales service - ours is second to none.
Purchasing
Honestly Made Products from Percussion Plus
Chamberlain Pianos
Sheet music and publishing
CyberSmart certification
Looking after our data and our customers data has never been more important and we take that responsibility very seriously.
Our company has been accessed by CyberSmart certification body and has met all the requirements of the Cyber Essentials Scheme. Read more here www.cybersmart.co.uk/cyber-essentials-certification
