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Broughton Pianos have been trading for over 30 years, and in this time have established themselves as the West Midlands premier retailer of quality pianos to the general public and piano trade.
We supply pianos to all areas of the United Kingdom and Europe.
We are international dealers, importers and exporters of new pianos from a wide range of piano manufacturers. We are official dealers for Yamaha Pianos and Kingsburg and specialists in used modern Steinways.
Our retail premises are housed in a delightfully restored Victorian mill in the quaint village of Drayton, Worcestershire, 15 miles south of Birmingham.
Our expansive showrooms housing a permanent display of at least 90 pianos is the largest in the Midlands area. This is backed up by a large stock of many hundreds of pianos in our warehousing facilities. Restoration work, such as piano re-polishing, re-stringing and the many facets of piano action restoration are carried out on the premises.
A visit to our showrooms will offer the customer the chance to try some of the finest new and reconditioned instruments available on the market today. With models available through from the beginner to the concert grand.
Don't forget to visit our highly recommended grand piano showrooms which are situated in a series of small quiet rooms.
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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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