We're a for-fun organisation of Edinburgh-area amateur musicians who like to get together Thursday nights for a bit of playing. We've been around since 1995. We work up two concerts every year - but we meet mostly just to play.

We welcome all abilities, all ages, and all backgrounds - anyone who can handle grade 3 or 4 on up - and we hold no auditions, ever.

Our musical focus varies from orchestral favourites like Sibelius's Finlandia and the March to the Scaffold from Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique to smaller works for soloists, such as Mozart's 4th horn concerto, immortalised in Flanders & Swann's affectionate pastiche Ill Wind.

We have recently performed Rossini's An Italian Girl in Algiers overture, Schumann's 1st symphony and Mendelssohn's 2nd, as well as concertos featuring some of our own players as soloists.


We currently have spaces for violas, 'cellos, double bass and all brass (particularly french horns and trombones) so please email us if you're interested in joining and someone will get in touch. If you play another instrument, we don't have a space right now, but please check back in case that changes.

Rehearsals are at the Stockbridge Parish Church, on Saxe Coburg Street in Edinburgh, every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. We play two terms, one from September through December, and one from January through May, as well as a more informalshort session in the summer.