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 Pvt 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 a town 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 (C2 to F8) or eight and one half octaves. A model with 20 extra keys (108 keys in total, 9 octaves, C0 to B8, approximately 16.3 Hz to 7902.1 Hz) 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