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  • Yamaha U1G (121cm) Traditional Upright Piano Black Polished c1971 M31777

    Yamaha U1G (121cm) Traditional Upright Piano Black Polished c1971 M31777

    from Robert Morley & Company Ltd.

    Yamaha U1G (121cm) Traditional Upright Piano Black Polished c1971 secondhand M31777

    Good full tone with nice balance across the compass, can be played quietly as well a more powerfully

    Full compass - 7¼ octaves – 88 notes
    3 pedals (practice pedal) with lock

    Dimensions : 150.50cm wide 121.00cm high 63.50cm deep
  • Yamaha U3 (130cm) Traditional Upright Piano Black c1977 M31816

    Yamaha U3 (130cm) Traditional Upright Piano Black c1977 M31816

    from Robert Morley & Company Ltd.

    Yamaha U3 (130cm) Traditional Upright Piano Black Polished c1977 secondhand M31816

    Powerful clear solid tone with good balance across the compass, can be played quietly as well a more powerfully - lovely case.

    Full compass - 7¼ octaves – 88 notes
    3 pedals (practice pedal) with lock

    Dimensions : 155.00cm wide 131.00cm high 67.50cm deep
  • Yamaha U3AS (130cm sostenuto) Traditional Upright Piano Black c1989 M31799

    Yamaha U3AS (130cm sostenuto) Traditional Upright Piano Black c1989 M31799

    from Robert Morley & Company Ltd.

    Yamaha U3AS (130cm) Traditional Upright Piano Black Polished c1989 secondhand M31799

    Powerful deep clear rich solid tone with good balance across the compass, can be played quietly as well a more powerfully - this is a fabulous piano with a sostenuto rather than a practise pedal.

    Full compass - 7¼ octaves – 88 notes
    3 pedals (sostenuto not practise pedal) with lock

    Made in Japan

    Dimensions - Height: 130cm / Width: 153.5cm / Depth: 65cm approximately
  • Zimmermann 110cm modern upright piano mahogany c1978 M31805

    Zimmermann 110cm modern upright piano mahogany c1978 M31805

    from Robert Morley & Company Ltd.

    Zimmermann 110cm modern upright piano mahogany satin with brass c1978 secondhand M31805

    Full compass - 7¼ octaves – 88 notes
    2 pedals
    Made in Germany

    Rent this piano on our home rental scheme for only £90.00 per month with an initial payment of £470.00 before delivery to a ground floor location in London (this includes delivery, collection, first months rental and setup/admin charge).
    Value on rental agreement £3,888.00.
    Terms and conditions apply, please ask for full details.

    Dimensions :142.00cm wide 109.00cm high 52.00cm deep

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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.