Stuart & Sons
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 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.
Pianos
Stuart & Sons uses Australian timbers for construction.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 or eight and one half octaves. A model with 20 extra keys was built in 2018.
Piano locations
Stuart pianos are used at many locations throughout Australia, including:- 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