Piano Practice, Rehearsal Studios Rooms in Camden London NW1
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Practice Studio
We are able to offer practice facilities seven days a week in our soundproofed practice studio. While it is often used for teaching, we do have time slots available for you to come and practice on a well-maintained and tuned quality upright piano. The room will accommodate up to three people and is also equipped with recording devices so you can cut these onto a CD. This can be a great advantage if you have a piano lesson, and the teacher is happy to have that lesson recorded so you can revisit the lesson in your own home.
Recording Equipment
Calling all musicians, singers, film makers, actors and story tellers, teachers and students .... wordsmiths of sound and vision! We are delighted to announce that our practice and teaching studios have been transformed into intimate, professional recording spaces, offering a cost effective solution for productions for Voice Over, Sound editing, Sound design, and Audio Visual Recording.
As part of our continual development we are delighted to be able to offer the following services with our Recording suites :
The soundproofed Control room is equipped with ProTools running on MAC OSX, while the other acts as a slave recording room. Both studios offer quality upright pianos and seating.
Music Festival for performers and guests Our 10th
18-06-2022 01:30PM
The Morecambe Bay Piano Group was set up to extend
11-12-2021 02:00PM
The Morecambe Bay Piano Group was set up to extend
08-01-2022 02:00PM
The Morecambe Bay Piano Group was set up to extend
12-02-2022 02:00PM
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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