THE UK's largest musical instrument chain is to close one of its Glasgow stores after going into partial administration.

Scots firm Sound Control announced that its Otago Street branch, in the city's West End, will shut, alongside nine other stores up and down the country.

The closures in Glasgow and Kirkcaldy alone resulted in 19 job losses.

As part of the nationwide cutbacks, a further four jobs were lost at the chain's flagship Scottish store in Jamaica Street.

The Dunfermline-based firm, a favourite with musicians for a generation, blamed competition from the internet for the closures, adding that its online and telesales operation would also be scrapped.

In total 163 redundancies will be made throughout the UK.

Company bosses had been trying to sell the business, but the administrators were called in when this strategy failed.