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      98 Canongate
      The Royal Mile
      City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 8DD
      Scotland

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      273 Sauchiehall Street
      Glasgow, Lanarkshire G2 3HQ
      Scotland

      Biggars Music, established in 1867, is Glasgow's

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      266 Clyde Street
      Glasgow, Lanarkshire G1 4JH
      Scotland

      Mclaren's is Glasgow's newest piano superstore

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      3 Canal Street
      Paisley, Renfrewshire PA1 2HD
      Scotland

      P. S. Pianos. A specalist piano shop. Being a

    • Richard Reason Pianos

      94 Tilehouse Street
      Hitchin
      Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 2DW
      England

      We stock Fine Quality instruments, modern second-

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    Did You Know Piano Facts

    1711
    John Shore was the inventor of the tuning fork. He became a royal trumpeter in 1688 and rose to sergeant trumpeter in 1708. He was also lutenist to the Chapel Royal, appointed in 1706. A lute is aguitar-like instrument with a long neck and a pear-shaped body,much used in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. The instrument is notoriously difficult to keep in tune, and Shore devised the tuning fork to help him tune his lute. He died in 1752.