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^[2] but in 2015, it relocated to Tumut at the base of the Snowy Mountains.^[3]

Stuart & Sons uses Australian timbers for construction.^[4]

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.^[5]

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.^[6][7] 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.^[8][9]

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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

Other Australian piano manufacturers

Formerly:

• Beale Piano, now manufactured in China.
• Wertheim Piano

Other notable pianos of comparable size

• Imperial Bösendorfer (C0 to C8, 97 keys)
• opus 102 (102 keys) by Stephen Paulello^[9][10]