Company type | Private company |
---|---|
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. The company is based in Tumut in New South Wales. [1]
Wayne Stuart founded the company in 1990 as Stuart & Sons Terra Australia Pvt Limited. The company later evolved and formed a partnership with Albert Music.
The company used to be based in Newcastle [2] but in 2015, it relocated to a town at the base of the Snowy Mountains. [3]
Stuart & Sons uses Australian timbers for construction. [4]
The Dutch-Australian pianist and teacher Gerard Willems used a Stuart & Sons piano when recording the complete piano sonata cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven during 1999 and 2000. [5]
Stuart & Sons created a grand piano with 14 more keys than are found on a standard piano, for a total of 102 keys (C2 to F8) or eight and one half octaves. [6] [7] A model with 20 extra keys (108 keys in total, 9 octaves, C0 to B8, approximately 16.3 Hz to 7902.1 Hz) was built in 2018. [8] [9]
Stuart pianos are used at many locations throughout Australia, including:
Other Australian piano manufacturers
Formerly:
Other notable pianos of comparable size
Company type | Private company |
---|---|
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. The company is based in Tumut in New South Wales. [1]
Wayne Stuart founded the company in 1990 as Stuart & Sons Terra Australia Pvt Limited. The company later evolved and formed a partnership with Albert Music.
The company used to be based in Newcastle [2] but in 2015, it relocated to a town at the base of the Snowy Mountains. [3]
Stuart & Sons uses Australian timbers for construction. [4]
The Dutch-Australian pianist and teacher Gerard Willems used a Stuart & Sons piano when recording the complete piano sonata cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven during 1999 and 2000. [5]
Stuart & Sons created a grand piano with 14 more keys than are found on a standard piano, for a total of 102 keys (C2 to F8) or eight and one half octaves. [6] [7] A model with 20 extra keys (108 keys in total, 9 octaves, C0 to B8, approximately 16.3 Hz to 7902.1 Hz) was built in 2018. [8] [9]
Stuart pianos are used at many locations throughout Australia, including:
Other Australian piano manufacturers
Formerly:
Other notable pianos of comparable size