Stuart & Sons

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Stuart & Sons
Company typePrivate company
IndustryMusical instruments
Founded1990
FounderWayne Stuart
Headquarters
Tumut, New South Wales
,
Australia
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsGrand pianos
Website stuartandsons.com
Stuart & Sons 2.9-metre (9.5 ft) 102-note piano Stuart & sons 2.9m 102-note piano.jpg
Stuart & Sons 2.9-metre (9.5 ft) 102-note piano

Stuart & Sons is an Australian manufacturer of handcrafted grand pianos. The company is based in Tumut in New South Wales.

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History

Wayne Stuart founded the company in 1990 as Stuart & Sons Terra Australia Pty Limited. The company later evolved and formed a partnership with Albert Music.

The company used to be based in Newcastle but in 2015, it relocated to Tumut at the base of the Snowy Mountains. [1]

Pianos

Stuart & Sons uses Australian timbers for construction. [2]

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. [3]

Stuart & Sons created a grand piano with 14 more keys than are found on a standard piano, for a total of 102 keys (C0 to F8) or eight and one half octaves. [4] [5] A model with 20 extra keys (108 keys in total, 9 octaves, C0 to B8, approximately 16.4 Hz to 7902.1 Hz) was built in 2018. [6] [7]

Piano locations

Stuart pianos are used at many locations throughout Australia, including:

See also

Other Australian piano manufacturers

Formerly:

Other notable pianos of comparable size

References

  1. ↑ "Stuart & Sons Contact Us". STUART & SONS. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
  2. ↑ "Stuart & Sons Grand Pianos". STUART & SONS. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ Grant, Neva. "Musical Innovation: A Grander Grand Piano". NPR Music. NPR. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  5. ↑ Meacham, Steve (20 October 2010). "Notes from heaven: piano on a grand scale". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. 1 2 "WHY 108 Keys..." STUART & SONS. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  8. ↑ "Pianos | Pianos Stephen Paulello". www.stephenpaulello.com. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
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