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Add an extra level of Prestige to your playing...

Buy a brand new Prestige cornet from Band Supplies and with your immediate delivery comes the chance to try it out with a Besson star of your choice...

Band Supplies
  Each purchase comes with 1 hour of free tuition from a Besson star

Band Supplies is offering an extra incentive to players who invest in a Besson Prestige instrument with the opportunity to add an hour's free on-line tuition with a Besson artist of their choice.

Band Supplies has the market leading instruments in stock and ready to be couriered direct to your front door — and all at that superb purchase price of £2950.00.

Special price

For cornet players that means buying a Prestige at a special price £2950.00 and enjoying the bonus of a free Wallace practice mute and bundle pack of accessories as well as gaining the opportunity to put your new instrument to the test with some of the banding world's leading performers. All that and the instrument comes with 1 year's free insurance cover.

1 hour free lesson

Band Supplies will organise and pay for your free 1 hour lesson with a Besson cornet star — so you can be link up with the likes of Roger Webster, Tom Hutchinson, Ian Porthouse, Ian Culross, Dewi Griffiths, Chris Bradley or even further afield...

Why not give us a call to find out more and discuss which star you would want to enjoy a lesson with — and leave the rest to us.

Contact:



0141 339 9400(Glasgow)
0113 245 3097 (Leeds)

Web: www.bandsupplies.co.uk

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