With more than 70% of all new pianos being presented in a polyester high-gloss cabinet, it is reassuring to know that we can provide in-house, and sometimes on-site polyester repair work. Being based near the historical furniture town of High Wycombe, we understand the need for a high quality repair and polishing service. Our own team of polishers have over 30 years of experience.
Polyester also known as high polished bright piano finishes is a very specialist craft. We undertake this re polishing and repair work in most parts of Buckinghamshire , indeed we are often called out to many other areas including Berkshire, Oxord, Herts and Hampshire but this does incur higher costs due to travel time .
Make no mistake, repolishing pianos is very specialist, it needs not just a highly skilled piano polisher but also a team of technicians and piano tuners too to ensure that the piano not only looks amazing after restoration but that it plays and sounds amazing too!
Music Festival for performers and guests Our 10th
18-06-2022 12:30PM
The Morecambe Bay Piano Group was set up to extend
11-12-2021 01:00PM
The Morecambe Bay Piano Group was set up to extend
08-01-2022 01:00PM
The Morecambe Bay Piano Group was set up to extend
12-02-2022 01:00PM
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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