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Brighton Piano Warehouse

43-45 Bonchurch Road
Brighton, East Sussex BN2 3PJ
England

Largest Selection of Upright and Grand Pianos on the south coast. Concert hire service Pianos Wanted Piano Removal Traditional Family business ...

The Pianola Shop

134 Islingword Road
Brighton, East Sussex BN2 9SH
England

Pianola sales and services. Music rolls sales and accessories. Estimate and quotations carried out in England and Northern Europ for complect ...

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Piano & Composition Lessons - Try for free!

Rock Street
KempTown
Brighton, East Sussex BN2 1NF
England

Piano lessons with a highly experienced & engaging teacher. I enjoy making lessons fun, yet with lots of learning and understanding.
I always go at ...

Revamp with Evergreen Antiques

12 Dunster close
Brighton, East Sussex BN1 7ED
England

French polishing and restoration on all types off furniture antique and modern also woodern and brick floors paint efects all work can be done onsite ...

Brighton Piano Warehouse Piano Hire


Brighton, East Sussex BN2 3PJ
England

Concert Hire service available. Concert Grands to Upright Pianos available for concerts, weddings, parties. Traditional Family run business ...

Brighton & Hove Piano Removals with Alliance Removals

1 Blatchington Road
Brighton, East Sussex BN3 3YP
England

Alliance Removals have 22 years of piano removals experience in Brighton & Hove, and across Sussex. Get in touch with us for a free no obligation ...

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Brighton Piano Accompanist

2 Mount Drive, Saltdean
Brighton, East Sussex BN2 8QA
England

Piano accompanist / collaborator serving solo singers, instrumentalists & choirs in the Brighton area.

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Did You Know Piano Facts

1400
By approximately 1400 the clavichord had about ten strings and inearlier examples two notes or more were produced from that string or pair of strings by making two or more tangents contact thesame string or pair of strings at different points. This typeis termed fretted, or in German Gebunden. A later type, in whicheach note has its own string, or strings, is called a "Bundfrei"clavichord. The clavichord is the simplest and usually the smallestof string keyboard instruments. It is rather like an oblong boxwith the keyboard running nearly the length of one long side andwith the horizontally placed strings almost parallel to that side.The small wrest pins and bridge are at the right-hand side andthe strings are permanently damped at their left-hand ends by astrip of felt or cloth. The strings are struck from below by smallpieces of metal shaped like a screwdriver blade, which are fixed tothe backs of the key frame as tangents.

Since about 1450 keyboards have virtually remained the same,except for a little variation in the colour of the keys, as the older ones had the reverse of the present-day key colouring. The organ was the first keyboard instrument and the weight of the keys has varied greatly since the earliest examples, whose keys were so heavy that the players were called "Organ Beaters." Around the thirteenth or fourteenth century, keyboards were laid out according to the natural modes which were the basis of the musical system. The interval of the augmented fourth, B toF, was considered discordant, so B was lowered by adding anextra short key, which procedure then led to five accidentals, B flat being followed by F sharp, E flat, C sharp, and G sharp.

Today's arrangement was found as long ago as 1361, as demonstrated by paintings of the time. The first member of the harpsichord family was the virginal or virginals. The strings on this instrument are plucked by plectra and the shape is similar to that of the clavichord. The spinet followed the clavichord and then came the more elaborate harpsichord.

Tuning often followed the meantone system where major thirdswere tuned precisely and other intervals tempered. This created somevery wild intervals and the howling sound resulted in them beingcalled "wolves" or the "wolf interval." If a series of fifths is tunedfrom the bottom A upwards, when the top A is reached it will be a quarter of a semitone sharp if all are tuned in pure intervals, and this is called the Pythagorean comma. The spinet could have received its name from a possible Italianinventor, Giovanni Spinette, or from the connection with spinethorns, which were used for plucking the strings.