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KEMBLE - LONDON

KEMBLE - LONDON
EST 1911

With a rich heritage of piano innovation, tradition and craftsmanship spanning a century, Kemble pianos are well known for their warm and intimate sound qualities.Designed in Britain, each Kemble piano continues to reflect our tradition of uncompromising commitment to design and quality; and the mainstays of the Kemble Sound - a European spruce "Strunz" soundboard and select materials throughout - continue to deliver pianos of the highest quality and performance.


John Bradwood & Sons

John Bradwood & Sons
Est.1936 London

John Broadwood pianos are an inventive British firm with extreme variation in quality and style of upright and grand pianos from very old ones that aren’t really worth reconditioning if you want an all-round piano, to very good grands from about 1893 onwards, and uprights from about 1900, mixed with indifferent ones. Pre 1884 boudoir and drawing room grand pianos are very common; most of these have very fine casework in rosewood or walnut, but the mechanism is varied meaning the touch can be very poor. They are also semi iron framed and need a good climate controlled environment. However, Broadwood grand pianos with serial numbers from 45,000 to about 52,000, dating from about 1893 to 1911, are fine pianos if well reconditioned. The shorter 5ft 6in grands are very attractive and quite common. There is also a style of Broadwood grand and upright piano called “barless”, which have a simpler iron frame and are superb when restored. Broadwood upright pianos tell a similar story. There are some extremely fine ones dated around 1900 to 1930, especially the tall ones over 120cm (4ft) tall. There are some good modern Broadwood upright pianos from about 1960 to 1980. Modern Broadwoods from about 1980 are not common. They are made in a variety of countries, including the UK, Korea and Mainland Europe. Broadwood is now (2012) run by Dr Alastair Laurence, who is a well known restorer and expert in the piano trade. He occasionally produced “barless” upright and grand pianos (up to about 2005). He also works for Finchcocks piano museum in Kent.


HYUNDAI - KOREA

hyundai
North American Music Inc.

The company was founded in 1956 by three brothers, Jai-Young Kim, Jai-Chang Kim and Jai-Sup Kim. As South Korea emerged as a major economy and producer of high quality goods. Initially the company was manufacturing Yamaha brand pianos for Korea and other parts of Asia. Young Chang has also emerged as one of the largest manufacturers of quality pianos in the world. It produces and markets the hand built Albert Weber, Weber and (formerly) Pramberger, Bergman models, and used to manufacture the Essex line for Steinway & Sons.In 1990, Young Chang purchased Kurzweil Music Systems, a maker of high end electronic and digital musical instruments.Joseph Pramberger, a former vice president from Steinway & Sons (head of manufacturing) and an experienced piano designer, joined the company in 1995. Pramberger brought many innovations to piano design, including the "Platinum Touch Action" and the patented asymmetrically tapered soundboard. The Pramberger Platinum series, introduced in 2001, was Young Chang's top-of-the-line for three years. These models incorporated some German materials including Renner action parts. Joseph Pramberger died in 2003, and the following year, his estate sold the Pramberger name to Samick, but his patents and innovations are still exclusive to Young Chang.


KNIGHT - ENGLAND

Knight
Est.1936 London

Highly respected British maker. Best between about 1960 and 1985; They were the only make of piano in Steinway Hall alongside Steinway, as in our opinion Steinway didn’t have a good small upright piano at the time. They have a rich warm tone, refined firm touch and are extremely stable with central heating. Knight pianos dating before 1960 have a more dated style of casework. Apart from a few baby grands nearly all Knight pianos are modern upright pianos from 100 to 110 cm high. Colours are about 65% mahogany, 20% teak, 10% walnut, 5% other. If you are looking for a small upright piano, then a Knight is an excellent choice. We usually have at least two or three Knight uprights in stock. NB Knight pianos don’t stand flush against the wall as the back castors are on a piece of wood offset behind the piano. This is in order to make the piano more stable as they have a very heavy frame. This wood protrudes about 2 inches at the back.