I offer a comprehensive tuning and maintenance service for functioning historical keyboard instruments and can discuss questions of pitch and temperament to suit individual musical requirements.
~ Specialist tuning of harpsichords, virginals, spinets, fretted and un-fretted clavichords, and veritcal and
horizontal pianos.
~ Tuning of historical temperaments, including meantone temperaments, Werckmeister III 1691, Vallotti
c1730, Kirnberger III 1779, Young 1800 and equal temperament.
~ Specialist maintenance of functioning antique keyboard instruments, including stringing, quilling and
voicing, action adjustment and regulation.
'...This day, my Tryangle virginall (which was put in
tune yesterday) did please me very well...'
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
18th March 1663.