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One Man Band
One Man Band is a general music store based in Banbury Oxfordshire, established by David Cooper in September 1995. Catering for all types of musicians, beginners to professionals it's customer base spans the country offering customers a fantastic high level of service including delivery, home demonstration, back up service and tuition facilities. The store displays over 200 guitars in its main showroom, including classical, acoustic, electric and bass. In the same showroom the store stocks a large choice of amplification, effects and recording equipment. Also Brass and woodwind instruments, percussion, acoustic and electronic drum kits, acessories and sheet music.

David Cooper started his career as a Saturday boy in a Banbury music shop, Glenn Derges Musical Instruments back in 1982. He added days after school, school holidays and the was taken on full time within the goverment job starting scheme Youth training scheme (YTS). He was made into a fuly fledged employee in 1987 and enjoyed helping to run the store until 1988 when he left to sell cars for the Hartwells garages in Abingdon, Kidlington and Oxford.

David joined a used car garage in Banbury in 1994, but soon after starting, decided it wasn't for home and he started organising One Man Band, a new music shop for Banbury to be based in Church Walk In Banbury.

The shop moved to larger premises in nearby White lion Walk in Banbury in 1999, and then again 2003 when they took over two adjacent shop premises at the top of White Lion Walk.