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We stock over 100 top quality new, modern and traditional grand,
baby grand and upright pianos.
OUR HISTORY
The Roberts family have been in the trade for four generations, starting in 1900 with David Roberts who worked as a piano and organ tuner and restorer in the Exeter area. David's son Brian helped with piano Restoration but went into music teaching.
His son Marcus started as a teacher but began piano tuning and restoration in 1980. After five years tuning and restoring, with clients including Vladimir Ashkenazy, John Lill and Alfred Brendel, he took up piano dealing in 1985. We currently serve top concert venues in Oxford, London and Portsmouth with clients such as Oxford University, Portsmouth Guildhall, Wembley Arena, Eton College, Radiohead and Jamie Cullum.
34 Wellhead Terrace
Ashington, Northumberland NE638PA
England
With a fine selection of only the best new pianos
Lenton Boulevard
Nottinghamshire NG7 2BY
England
Over many years, we have carefully selected what
2 Clay Bank Villas
Blidworth
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG21 0QS
England
Concert Quality rebuilt Grand pianos for the
Baptist Church
Wordsworth Rd
Stoke Newington, London N16 8DA
England
New and used sales,short and long term hire with
13-15 London Street
Faringdon, Oxfordshire SN7 7AE
England
At the Piano Gallery, we stock a wide range of new
Music Festival for performers and guests Our 10th
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The Morecambe Bay Piano Group was set up to extend
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The Morecambe Bay Piano Group was set up to extend
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The Morecambe Bay Piano Group was set up to extend
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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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