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Mr M Richards MABPT, Dip AEWVH, ATCL, LTCL, PTA

Mr M Richards MABPT, Dip AEWVH, ATCL, LTCL, PTA
Mr M Richards MABPT, Dip AEWVH, ATCL, LTCL, PTA








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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

 

Contact Information

  • 93 Henwood Road
    Compton
    Wolverhampton, West Midlands WV6 8PJ
    England
  • Phone: View Phone
  • Mobile: 07784142800
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    Additional User Information

    Disclosure and Barring Service: Yes

  • Hours

    Saturday:
    09:00 - 20:00
    Sunday:
    09:00 - 20:00
    Monday:
    09:00 - 20:00
    Tuesday:
    09:00 - 20:00
    Wednesday:
    09:00 - 20:00
    Thursday:
    09:00 - 20:00
    Friday:
    09:00 - 20:00

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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.