Matthew James Richards ATCL, LTCL, MABPT, PTA - is a certified Piano Tuner Technician and offers services to clients covering all areas of Wolverhampton and the West Midlands. A certified member of the PTA and ABPT the leading associations of Piano tuners in the UK. He is DBS certified (formerly CRB) - Disclosure and Barring Service - suitable for schools, care homes etc.
Matthew performs a high quality standard of service throughout his work, tuning pianos for private homes, schools, churchws, oncerts, theatres, recording studios and more. He is a professional pianist (ATCL and LTCL Diplomas for the Trinity college of London) and has an extensive knowledge of the instrument.
Matthew also specialises in Nostalgia entertainment, and has played background music for the Mayor of Hereford, also for special evebts (such as Valentines Day, mother's Day etc) at local restaurants. He has also performed at the Royal Albert Hall in front of the queen for her 92nd birthday.
Mr M J Richards provides the following services:
• Tuning in Homes, Schools, Churches, Theatres and Concerts Venues
• Minor on site repairs
• Replacement broken strings
• Advice on purchasing a new or second-hand piano
• Piano Life Saver Installer
Disclosure and Barring Service: Yes
Hours Currently Open
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
Temperament
Temperament is both the process and result of making slight changes to the pitches of a pure musical scale, so that the octave may be conveniently divided into a usable number of notes and intervals. In the history of Western music's 12-note octave tradition, there have been several, fundamentally different forms of temperament applied to the developing keyboard. Music suffers when performed in a tuning that is different than that which the composer used in its creation.
Well Temperament Keyboards
Well Temperament Keyboards may be tuned so that all keys are musically usable, but contain varying degrees of the "wolf". This is the tuning used in this recording. Between the Early Baroque and Romantic eras, the popular tuning was something between Meantone and Equal Temperament. This era was a brief, transitional stage in temperament history, but considering the music composed during this period, its importance cannot be overlooked. This style of tuning is called "Well Temperament" following the use of the term by J.S. Bach. The term refers to a genre, rather than a specific temperament, as there were many Well Temperaments in use between 1700 and 1825.
