New:
We can retail most of the well known brands of today and can advise you as to what would be the best style, touch and sound. Acoustic pianos don’t suit all, so we can supply you with digital pianos and keyboards by a very well known brand!
We avoid the very cheap end of the market imports as they fail to have the longevity of a quality piano.
Previously Owned:
We do not sell anything older than 1970 unless it is a very special instrument. Most popular with us is the Yamaha brand and the models we sell most of are the U1 and U3, which are manufactured in Japan. We do also retail Kawai instruments as well as Welmar, Kemble and Knight. Previously owned pianos come in and go out all the time so apart from the regular stock of Yamaha and Kawai, there could be a whole host of other interesting instruments!!
If Yamaha is the brand for you, then please feel free to read our Yamaha Buying Guide
Please visit our shop.
Upton Cottage
Plantation Farm
Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 8BZ
England
Steinway restorations and retailers of pre loved
Rookery Farm
Radstock, Somerset BA3 4UL
England
Abbey Piano Services is run by a small team of
11 Bishop Street
Londonderry, County Londonderry BT48 6PL
Northern Ireland
Henderson Music are Ireland's leading supplier of
The Old Dairy
21 Dowland Road
Limavady, County Derry / Londonderry BT49 OHP
Northern Ireland
Limavady pianos service repair and restore pianos
184 St. Ann's Road
Haringey, London N15 5RP
England
J. Reids supply new and fully restored pianos from
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.
r.
