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May we offer some advice that may be useful when buying your first, second or twenty second piano?
Why are you buying a piano?
This is important; there are many different reasons for making this investment. Ask yourself who will be playing the piano? How accomplished the pianist or pianists are? How often will the piano be played? Will my children or I be learning? Pianos are as individual as people, each is suited to different people, some are suited to the young or mature beginner, the fun player or the professional pianist. Tell us what you want from your piano and we will certainly do our utmost to find just the right piano for you, if you do not know what you want, we will do our best to help you find out.
What will the piano sound like?
Acoustic pianos have an individual character, tone and touch. They are made by highly skilled craftsmen from natural materials. Each instrument is made from over 5,000 parts. They are reliable and, if looked after, will last a lifetime. Pianos will enable you to gain the maximum ’expression’. Pianos are unique and you need to ensure that the piano you try is the piano you buy. Do not think it is all right to have a piano delivered direct from the warehouse - it is not! It is important to try and approve any piano before it is delivered.
What will the piano look like?
The appearance of the piano is also important, you will have it a long time and you need to be happy with its look. Your piano will soon become a major feature within your home. We all know that pianos can be either uprights or grand, but they come
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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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