Here at the Tyneside Piano Company we can provide beautiful instruments for any occasion. From concerts and recitals, to corporate events, private functions and weddings, we can arrange for your chosen hire piano to be transported to a destination of your choice, tuned and made ready to play, then removed once the hire period or function is over.
We have a superb selection of hire pianos available, that cover every need from that of the debutant student, to concert level. Once you have chosen the instrument that fits your specific requirements from our selection in our showrooms, we will make all the arrangements necessary for the instrument to be safely transported and delivered to your chosen location.
We use our own specially customised fleet of vehicles to transport all our pianos, plus the extremely safe and efficient Klavier Roller System.
Then once the piano is on location, we make sure that it is tuned, positioned and ready to play. Of course your own piano can also be safely and easily transported to any destination in the country, with our customised fleet and superbly trained technicians.
Pianos for hire:
Area covered includes Northumberland, Newcastle, Durham, quotes for further afield.
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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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