Cunningham Piano always has a varied selection of pianos available for sale, from newly restored to new pianos, uprights and grands. If the piano you require is not in the workshop at the time of enquiry it can usually be found quickly from many good contacts in the trade at a competitive price.
The price will include delivery within the Yorkshire area and the first tuning. Cunningham Piano Services is proud of the quality of service offered and will assume responsibility for the aftercare of any instrument bought if it is the customer's wish. It is therefore company policy to supply the best quality of instrument to every customer within the price range they can afford.
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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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