From our prominent shop on Grays Inn Road we offer a professional and efficient piano hire service, which is both reliable and professional. We are regularly installing our fine upright and grand pianos to venues not only throughout the capital, but further afield too. Our instruments are looked after by a team of professionally trained piano tuners and technicians, and our removal people are experts in their work.
For concert and event hire we can provide instruments for wedding receptions, recitals, corporate functions, photographic shoots, recording sessions, television production sets (specific sets, periods and circumstances) or for location operatic rehearsals. Our pianos have appeared in many high-profile television programmes and in some of the finest feature films Prices start from £ 390 plus VAT
For domestic hire we have modern upright and grand pianos suited to home use. We have numerous pianos on hire around South East England and our six month contract provides the option to purchase; rates start from just £50 per month.
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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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