We have a carefully selected range of fine quality pianos on display in our showroom. We are committed to giving expert advice and pride ourselves on offering a quality service before, during and after your piano purchase.
When visiting The North West Piano Centre, customers are encouraged to play as many pianos as they choose for as long as they wish, to ensure the piano you buy is the right piano for you.
Every piano is different and they do vary. No two models off the same production line will be the same, with slight variations to tone and touch. The difference between the pianos can only be experienced by sitting and playing. We believe choosing a piano should be a personal choice by the individual. A piano can not be experienced on the Internet. You should never buy a piano on appearance alone. So, before a piano makes it into our showroom, it has to make it through our workshops.
All our pianos are individually prepared in our own workshops, A piano has 5,000 separate components which are thoroughly checked by our experienced technicians for damage or excessive wear and repaired or replaced where necessary, customers are more than welcome to view the work in progress. Before leaving our showroom every piano is quality checked and tuned to concert pitch to ensure they are playing to their full potential.
We count ourselves fortunate to have several tutors from The Royal Northern College of Music, Chethams School of Music and Manchester Grammar School amongst our customers.
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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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