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    • Dawsons Music Ltd (Liverpool)

      37 Ranelagh Street
      Liverpool, Merseyside L1 1JP
      England

      Dawsons caters for all musical styles and for all

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      Knightley Farm Workshop
      Callingwood
      Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire DE13 9PU
      England

    • Broughton Pianos Limited

      Drayton Mill
      Stourbridge, Worcestershire DY9 0BT
      England

      Broughton Pianos have been trading for over 30

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      Verve House
      Sunningdale
      Ascot, Berkshire SL5 0DJ
      England

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    • Sheargold Pianos Ltd

      53 King Street
      Cobham, Berkshire KT11 2LH
      England

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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.