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

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

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History

Wayne Stuart founded the company in 1990. From 2001 the company traded as Piano Australia Pty Limited, a partnership with Albert Music, under which more than 50 large grand pianos were built; in 2014 the partnership ended and the business became fully family owned.\n

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

Pianos

Stuart & Sons uses Australian timbers for construction, including Tasmanian huon pine for the 108-key piano built for Beleura House on the Mornington Peninsula.\n

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.\n

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. 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. A model with 112 keys was built between 2022 and 2024 and delivered to Rockford, USA in October 2024.\n

Piano locations

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

Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Government House, Sydney
Admiralty House, Sydney
Powerhouse Museum Sydney
Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust
Clancy Auditorium Central Queensland University
Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Mackay, Queensland
Beleura House and Gardens, Mornington, Victoria
Hale School, Perth

References

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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
Why Does Wayne Stuart of Stuart and Sons Pianos Hate Me? (YouTube)

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History

Pianos

Piano locations

See also

References

External links

Wayne Stuart

Broadcast History