Warner Pianos is a family run business established in Maidstone Kent. In 1986 after 3 years of training at one of the leading piano technician training colleges Malcolm Warner started the business, restoring, repolishing and moving pianos. The business has grown and evolved and whilst we still carry out renovation work most of the pianos we sell in the showroom are new or nearly new.
Removals of pianos sold by us or from one customer to another are also carried out within Kent and the surrounding counties.
Hire is also an option both long and short term with competetive rates.
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Today, we supply all styles of Acoustic Piano,
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Republic of Ireland
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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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