Abbey Piano Services have a well-stocked Piano showroom, providing excellent quality pianos at competitive prices. Our showroom offers you a varied selection to suit your taste, budget and purpose. Every Piano is unique; no two models from the same production line will be the same, with slight variations to tone and touch.
Each Piano can be adjusted to the specific requirements of the customer. A child for example will require a lighter touch than an adult. This can be adjusted as it is a mechanical change to the action and as the child gets older the piano can be made to feel heavier.
All the Pianos sold at Abbey Piano Services are prepared individually to the highest standards.
Abbey Piano Services is run by a small team of piano technicians specialsing in all things piano related. We sale Reconditioned pianos as well as seciond hand instruments by the likes of Yamaha and Kawai. Reconditioned pianos by Bechstein, Bluthner, Steinway etc. Pianos are delivered free and include the first tuning. Also a wide range of stools available. Please phone for more details
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Tuning Temperaments
How many piano tuning temperaments are there?
There are countless variations, but most fall within three major categories;
1. Meantone, which generally concentrated the dissonance into a few unusable intervals (often called "wolf" intervals), so that the others could be Just. These are often called "restrictive" tunings, since there are certain intervals that are not usable. Good intervals are really good, bad ones are really bad. The Meantone era was approx. 1400-1700
2. Well-Temperament, which gives more consonance to the most often used keys, and more dissonance to the lesser used ones. Though not equal, these tunings are "non-restrictive" because all intervals can be used. The intervals range from Just to barely acceptable. Well-temperament refers to a genre, not a specific tuning. The Well-Tempered era is approx. 1700-1880.
3. Equal Temperament, which spreads the dissonance equally among all intervals.
There is no difference in consonance or dissonance between any keys, thus, there are no good ones or bad ones. Equal temperament represents a complete average. Dates of its acceptance are debated, but there is ample evidence that it was widely available by 1900 and is the predominate tuning on keyboards, today.
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