Stuart & Sons

Stuart & Sons
TypePrivate company
IndustryMusical instruments
Founded1990
FounderWayne Stuart
Headquarters
Tumut, New South Wales
,
Australia
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsGrand pianos
Websitestuartandsons.com
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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 1 2 3 "Stuart & Sons" (PDF). International Piano. No. Guide to Instruments & Accessories 2023. 2023. p. 60. Retrieved 3 September 2026.
  2. ↑ "Wayne Stuart, Stuart Pianos, Sydney (Design and Decoration S02 E12)". Ikon.tv. Retrieved 8 July 2026.
  3. 1 2 "About Stuart & Sons". STUART & SONS. Retrieved 8 July 2026.
  4. ↑ "Stuart & Sons Grand Pianos". STUART & SONS. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  5. 1 2 King, Rosie (15 September 2018). "World's first 108-key concert grand piano built by Australia's only piano maker". ABC News. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Ludwig van Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas Gerard Willems, Piano Stuart & Sons Piano". enjoythemusic.com. Retrieved 23 October 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  7. ↑ Grant, Neva. "Musical Innovation: A Grander Grand Piano". NPR Music. NPR. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  8. ↑ Meacham, Steve (20 October 2010). "Notes from heaven: piano on a grand scale". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  9. 1 2 "WHY 108 Keys..." STUART & SONS. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  10. ↑ "World's First 112 Key Acoustic Piano". STUART & SONS. October 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2026.
  11. ↑ "Pianos | Pianos Stephen Paulello". www.stephenpaulello.com. Retrieved 16 April 2024.