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Pianos For Sale The Full Octave Music shop in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria
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The Full Octave was founded by John Metcalfe and his wife Liz in 1997. The family has been involved in the piano business since the mid 1920s through John, and formerly his father, who could regularly been seen cycling along the South Cumbrian lanes on his piano tuning round.
In 1997 it was decided to pool the talents of both their daughter Amy and son-in-law Richard, both music college graduates, to form The Full Octave Music Shop. The Business specialises in both new and used / second hand Piano Sales, Piano Restoration/Tuning and importantly Sheet Music provision. The shop also provides a piano removal service in addition to stocking Woodwind (both new and secondhand), a wide range of guitars plus other instruments and accessories.
The Full Octave is especially proud of its grand piano restoration service whereby customers can be guaranteed quality workmanship at reasonable cost. A warm and friendly welcome awaits customers and they will be assured of an excellent service by staff, each of whom have their own individual fields of speciality.
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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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