Stuart & Sons
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| Company type | Private company |
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| Industry | Musical instruments |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Founder | Wayne Stuart |
| Headquarters | , Australia |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Grand pianos |
| Website | stuartandsons |
Stuart & Sons is an Australian manufacturer of handcrafted grand pianos established in 1990 as Stuart & Sons Terra Australis Pty Limited. The founder is Wayne Stuart. The company later evolved and formed a partnership with Albert Music. Stuart & Sons primarily use Australian timbers for construction. The company is based in Newcastle in New South Wales.[1]
The Dutch-Australian pianist Gerard Willems used a Stuart & Sons piano when recording the complete piano sonata cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven during 1999 and 2000.[2]
Stuart & Sons has created a grand piano with 14 more keys than are found on a standard piano, for a total of 102 keys or eight and one half octaves.[3] A model with 20 extra keys for a total of 108 or nine octaves was built in 2018.[4]
Piano locations
Stuart pianos are used at many prominent locations throughout Australia including:
- Sydney Conservatorium of Music
- Government House, Sydney
- Admiralty House, Sydney
- Powerhouse Museum Sydney
- Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, Hobart
- Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust
- Clancy Auditorium Central Queensland University
- Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Mackay, Queensland
See also
Other Australian piano manufacturers
Historic:
Current:
References
- ^ "Contact us". Stuart and Sons. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- ^ "Ludwig van Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas Gerard Willems, Piano Stuart & Sons Piano". enjoythemusic.com. Archived from the original on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
- ^ Grant, Neva. "Musical Innovation: A Grander Grand Piano". NPR Music. NPR. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- ^ King, Rosie (14 September 2018). "World's first 108-key concert grand piano built by Australia's only piano maker". ABC. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
External links
- Stuart and Sons Company Website
- Powerhouse Museum
- Silenced huon piano begins to shine
- Notes from heaven: piano on a grand scale
- Grand piano is key to innovation
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- ^ Why Does Wayne Stuart of Stuart and Sons Pianos Hate Me?, retrieved 16 December 2019