Jaques Samuel Pianos has been providing pianos services to its customers forover 65 years. Our range of services is unequalled, including Piano Sales, Home Rental, Hires, Reconditioning, and Transport.
Eighty years after Jaques Samuel began, we are considered by many to be the UK's premier piano house.
A laureate of the Music Industry Association's "Retailer of the Year" award, we are also the largest piano hire company in the UK and sell more Kawai pianos than any other dealer in the European Union and just to keep us busy we tune over 6000 pianos a year!
We have London's largest selection of practice rooms with 14 air conditioned studios for teaching, auditions, practice, and they are also used for music board examinations including ABRSM.
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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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