MDEE 2024 exhibitor showcase: June Emerson Wind Music

RE: The business started 54 years ago, when my mother, June, a freelance bassoonist in London at the time, started sourcing sheet-music for her musician friends. They struggled to find certain titles and she tracked these down, buying a second copy for her own stock. From having £10–£12 as working capital, she built the business to what it is today, maintaining the same ethos: if we don't have something listed, we'll always track it down. June is retired now, but is still a partner and helps with the website.

RE: We're well known for the size and range of the stock we keep, with over 50,000 titles, and for having obscure stuff that nobody else has! We specialise in wind and brass music and use our backgrounds as players to good effect. We also go out of our way to provide excellent customer service: on our website you’ll see a 5-star Google rating, something we're very proud of. We've had a successful e-commerce website for about 30 years, developed independently. As well as being a retailer, we are the distributor for Saxtet Publications, Broadbent & Dunn, OUP Archive, Con Moto, Lazarus Edition and Hop Vine Publishing, plus for individual books by Anneke Scott, Graham Salter and Richard Steggall. We print and distribute on behalf of two dozen other publishers, including a few in the US. As we print our own publications in-house, we have the wherewithal to print other editions.