Whether it's a classic country garden wedding, a timeless vintage wedding or stylish contemporary wedding, our beautiful pianos are ready for you! Cheshire Hire Pianos offers stunning grand pianos for hire and stylish upright pianos for hire at weddings, concerts, festivals and any other special celebrations.
Alongside our piano hire service we also provide a professional piano moving service and this is included in the price, so there is no additional planning for you to do to make your event just right.
We are also aware that most events take place on a weekend and we are more than happy to provide weekend drop offs and weekend collections, even if it's a bank holiday weekend!
When hiring a piano the quality is one of the most important considerations. We provide the finest of German pianos that have received concert standard preparation and each one produces the nicest tone.
All our pianos are modern, sometimes even brand new unless of course you request an antique piano! We have a team of 5 technicians that prepare pianos before they go out on hire and maintain the pianos between jobs. We may even be able to provide you with an onsite tune if you wish to be doubly sure the piano is as good as it can possibly be.
Not for profit organisation? Talk to Cheshire Hire Pianos about sponsoring your event. Cheshire Hire Pianos hires concert standard upright pianos from as little as £120 per day.
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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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