Stuart and Sons
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Stuart & Sons is an Australian manufacturer of handcrafted grand pianos established in 1990 as Stuart & Sons Terra Australis Pty Limited. The company later evolved and formed a partnership with Albert Music. Stuart and Sons primarily use Australian timbers for construction. The company is based in Newcastle
in New South Wales. 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.
Stuart and Sons has created a grand piano with 14 more keys than are found on a standard piano. Although several manufacturers have created pianos that reach 9 notes lower in the bass, the company claims that no one has created a range that reaches as high a pitch as can be produced on their keyboard.
Stuart pianos are used at many prominent locations throughout Australia including:
Historic:
Current:
Newcastle, New South Wales
The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...
in New South Wales. The Dutch-Australian pianist Gerard Willems used a Stuart & Sons piano when recording the complete piano sonata cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
during 1999 and 2000.
Stuart and Sons has created a grand piano with 14 more keys than are found on a standard piano. Although several manufacturers have created pianos that reach 9 notes lower in the bass, the company claims that no one has created a range that reaches as high a pitch as can be produced on their keyboard.
Piano locations
Stuart pianos are used at many prominent locations throughout Australia including:
- Government House, SydneyGovernment House, SydneyGovernment House is located in Sydney, Australia alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens, overlooking Sydney Harbour, just south of the Sydney Opera House...
- Admiralty House, SydneyAdmiralty House, SydneyAdmiralty House is the official Sydney residence of the Governor-General of Australia. It is located in the suburb of Kirribilli, on the northern foreshore of Sydney Harbour . This large, Italianate, sandstone mansion occupies the tip of Kirribilli Point...
- Powerhouse MuseumPowerhouse MuseumThe Powerhouse Museum is the major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney, the other being the historic Sydney Observatory...
Sydney - Tasmanian Conservatorium of MusicTasmanian Conservatorium of MusicThe Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music forms part of the faculty of Arts at the University of Tasmania. It is a music training institution with courses and specializations in classical and contemporary music, music education, technology and composition....
, Hobart - Australian Elizabethan Theatre TrustAustralian Elizabethan Theatre TrustThe Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust was set up in September 1954 under the guidance of H. C. ‘Nugget’ Coombs, Governor of the Commonwealth Bank, Sir Charles Moses General Manager, Australian Broadcasting Commission and John Douglas Pringle, Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. It aimed to...
- Clancy Auditorium Central Queensland UniversityCentral Queensland UniversityCQUniversity is an Australian public university based in Queensland. Its main campus is in North Rockhampton Queensland. However, it also has campuses in Bundaberg, Emerald, Gladstone and Mackay, as well as operations throughout Asia-Pacific. For instance, Melior Business School is one of its...
- Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, MackayMackay, QueenslandMackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar....
, QueenslandQueenslandQueensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
See also
Other Australian piano manufacturersHistoric:
- Beale PianoBeale Piano-Establishment of piano importing business:Octavius Beale established a business to import pianos and sewing machines in Sydney in 1884. He imported German upright pianos, of which a few survive today - these are known as "Hapsburg Beale"...
- Wertheim PianoWertheim PianoWertheim is an Australian brand of pianos, formerly produced in Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Around 18,000 upright pianos were made in Melbourne between 1908 and 1935, they were designed for the south-eastern Australian climate and were a popular all-purpose piano.They were used in a...
Current:
- Overs PianoOvers PianoOvers Piano is an Australian brand of grand piano, owned by Ron Overs. Overs specialises in the manufacture of grand pianos, as well as their restoration and rebuilding.-Technology:...