Buying the right piano is often a difficult task, I am here to help, whether you are choosing your first piano or upgrading to a better instrument.
If your child is having lessons it is not always necessary to buy a new piano. I have a selection of good modern pianos from £500 - £900.
If you are seeking to upgrade your piano we can do part exchange on a new piano or your first Grand. We deal with quality instruments including: Challen, Yamaha, Kawai, Steinway and other respected makers; and are agents for Shroeder and Reid-Sohn.
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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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