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Best website for buying downloadable sheet music?

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AliceLutherNeeMorgan · 04/11/2017 08:36

I need to get hold of some piano sheet music this weekend - will do a ring around of local places once they're open but am not hopeful, and it's not on Amazon Prime either. Can anyone recommend any websites where I can pay to download? A quick google shows me it's not straightforward! Thanks

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AliceLutherNeeMorgan · 04/11/2017 10:13

Oh thank you all - I'll keep trying these options and see where I get to. I take the point about specific versions - although I think it's written for piano and in a specific album anyway (it's G4 piano The Penguin from Talent Night at the Zoo by R Lane)

Thank you frisky it's not life-or-death urgent so on ringing around I'll see if I can just pay for overnight/next day delivery or something. The problem is fitting in the practice at the moment around school exams and other instruments; it's not actually for a performance (there has been a right melodrama about it though!)

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friskybivalves · 04/11/2017 09:56

Whereabouts do you live? Most good local music shops with a decent stock will try to keep Grade pieces. When you say you need it this weekend - how urgent is it? I am passing a good music shop later and could put it in the post if they have it in stock. But would not get to you until Monday!

BarchesterFlowers · 04/11/2017 09:12

I would only buy the exact specification on the ABRSM syllabus as these things can be amended to suit the grade and might not be in their exact original form.

catkind · 04/11/2017 08:54

But yes I have been able to buy in copyright music from different publishers from sheetmusic.com. who's the publisher?

ZenNudist · 04/11/2017 08:54

Abrsm might be in copyright but if you know the piece you might be able to get it free or cheaply. Try 8notes.

I spent last night looking for free sheet music as i came away to visit family without music books and i want ds and i to practice whilst we are away. Took a bit of googling but i got it all.

catkind · 04/11/2017 08:53

Could you find someone to borrow it from? Another student or DC's teacher?

BarchesterFlowers · 04/11/2017 08:48

Oops slow typing.

BarchesterFlowers · 04/11/2017 08:47

Have you looked here?

The last time I bought downloadable music it was from music room, I have also bought from Boosey and Hawke. Possibly sheet music.com but I don’t remember tbh as I tend to buy it in paper form.

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AliceLutherNeeMorgan · 04/11/2017 08:44

Ah thanks - no it's one of the ABRSM C list pieces (not in the main book) so very much in copyright; looks like it's only in hard copy there and for dispatch in 2 weeks!

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friskybivalves · 04/11/2017 08:39

Hello there - sheetmusic.com is I think one of the more reliable ones. A lot depends on how recently the music was composed and how tightly the rights are held. Over 100 years makes it out of copyright.

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