Thornhill Pianos is a family business selling and renting grand and upright pianos. We offer high quality pianos at affordable prices to our many clients across London, the Home Counties and the wider UK. All our pianos are tuned and regulated in our workshop by highly skilled technicians and tuners.
We have the largest selection of Wendl & Lung pianos in the country for sale and rental as they offer the best value and quality in the UK market. As the official UK agent for Wendl & Lung we have extensive knowledge of their pianos and have undergone specialist training in Vienna in how best to maintain their pianos in perfect playing order. From May 2011 Wendl & Lung will be merging with Feurich. We are working closely with the new Feurich production to bring you high quality, affordable grands and uprights.
In addition we have an impressive collection of reproduction period instruments (fortepianos, harpsichords, spinets, viriginals) available for hire.
We have been selling and renting pianos, fortepianos and harpsichords since 1988, and have worked for many professional venues in the UK, including opera houses (Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, ENO, Garsington) concert halls (South Bank, Wigmore Hall, St John
40 Irongate
Derby, Derbyshire DE1 3GA
England
Charles Foulds opened the first Foulds shop in
154 Sidwell Street
Exeter, Devon EX4 6RT
England
Founded in April 2007 and following on from the
11, St. Mary's Hill
Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2DP
England
Music shop established in 1963 we stock a large
251 Kings Road
Chelsea
Chelsea, London
England
Chelsea London was founded on the famous King's
13 The Broadway
Woodham
New Haw, Surrey KT15 3EU
England
Covering Kent, Sussex and Surrey from stores in
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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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