Second-hand music & instruments in Aberdeen typically sells for £15 to £800 (about $20 to $1,100). Brand and playing condition decide most of it, and an instrument that has been set up properly is worth more than one that has sat untouched. Cosmetic marks matter far less here than on almost anything else.
Buying music & instruments in Aberdeen
Aberdeen is built almost entirely of granite, which gives it a colour nothing else in the country has, and it has been the oil capital of Europe for fifty years. It has two universities, a working harbour and a climate that is genuinely cold and windy rather than merely northern.
Two examples of the same model rarely sound alike, because timber, age and how hard a thing has been used all leave their mark. Hearing it in a quiet room is the whole decision, and no recording made on a phone stands in for that.
What to check in person
Leave it tuned and come back to it twenty minutes later, since an instrument that will not hold pitch has a problem at the pegs or the bridge. Look inside the soundhole with a light for loose bracing, and check the neck joint where it meets the body.
Collecting it in Aberdeen
It needs a car boot rather than a bag, so agree somewhere you can actually stop for a few minutes. That is easier away from the centre than in it.
The centre is compact and walkable and the station is central. Wind here is constant rather than occasional, which matters for anything being carried or loaded outdoors.
Selling your music & instruments in Aberdeen free
Offshore rotations move households on fixed cycles and the oil sector’s ups and downs move the whole market at once rather than gradually. Two universities clear student housing each summer.
Record a short clip of it being played and put that with your listing, because it answers what photographs cannot. Give the model and the year if you know them, and list every part that is not original to it. Lifts in September as lessons restart, and again after Christmas.
Most private sales settle by bank transfer or cash on collection. Faster Payments clear in seconds, which makes a transfer as safe as cash for the seller — wait for it to land before the item leaves your hands.
Music & Instruments worth listing in Aberdeen
Same region (Scotland)
If nothing in Aberdeen suits, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee each have their own music & instruments page, and a seller will often meet part of the way for something worth the trip.
More in Aberdeen: everything second hand in Aberdeen, or Music & Instruments across the United Kingdom.
Prices converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate; sellers set their own price.