sound and illustrates how the sound has inspired Australian composition and creative social & cultural interactions. Both makers have designed new faster key actions with reduced frictional resistance in the mechanism. Overs plans to produce pianos with an expanded frequency range, though not to the expanded range of the 97 and 102 key Stuart pianos. The 108 key Stuart piano is currently in development. For many years, Wayne Stuart has worked arduously with the French piano string manufacturer- piano maker Stephen Paulello, to develop a steel wire with the required tensile strength and tonal characteristics to enable the expansion of the keyboard compass to 108 notes.

….given the advanced wire of Stephen Paulello, a French piano maker, it was inconceivable to limit these new generation pianos to 88 keys but rather, to aim for the ultimate goal of 9 octaves for the chromatic scale.¹²¹

¹¹⁷7901 Hz is my calculation, and may be under. W Stuart states it’s over 8,400Hz in the documentary2Opus Dissonus, “Artur Cimirro-The Documentary.”
^{118     4} Paulello ,“ Pianos & Strings”www.stephenpaulello.com
^{119     5}Paulello., “Pianos & Strings”http://www.stephenpaulello.com/sites/default/files/paulello/intros-de-pages/stephenpaulelloconcertgrandpianos.pdf
¹²⁰Paul Corbin,“Why Extend the Range of the Piano,”Master Piano Technicians Journal. No.37, 5th Digital Edition USA (Spring 2014): 11-19.
^{121     2} “Innovations”.Stuart & Sons Handcrafted Pianos.