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Brian Capleton PhD  MMusRCM  DipTCL  LTCL  CGLI  MIMIT Cert LCF

has taught music, piano technology and other music related subjects in schools and colleges including Cheltenham Ladies College and the Royal National College. He currently works as a freelance piano tuner, teacher and writer.  

Studied at:

  • Dartington College of Arts

  • Wolfson College, Oxford

  • The Royal College of Music

  • Trinity College of Music London

  • London College of Furniture / London Metropolitan University

 

  • Holds the Royal College of Music Master's degree with Distinction. Winner of the Royal College of Music Charles Cudworth Prize.

  • Worked with leading UK groups including The Elizabethan Consort of Viols, The London Baroque Trio, and Chalemie, performing at major venues throughout the UK including London's South Bank.

  • Toured the UK 1997-98 on the Early Music Network.

 

Has recorded with

  • BBC

  • Meridian Records

  • Amarilli Classical

 

Publications

  • Theory and practice of piano tuning, 2007  (ISBN 978-0-9554649-0-4)

  • Piano action regulating, 2007  (ISBN 978-0-9554649-1-1)

  • 'Piano unison tuning', Musical Instrument Technology (Journal of the Institute of Musical Instrument Technology), Vol 4 New series, 2006, 1-46.

  • False beats in coupled piano string unisons' Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, (2), February 2004, pp. 885 - 892.

  • 'Carl Friedrich Abel', a Gainsborough painting, and viol temperament - some evidence and enigmas', The Consort (The Journal of the Dolmetsch Foundation), 2003, Vol 59, pp. 51 - 74.

  • Music in Reality : The relation of music, emotion and Pre-Socratic myth, Dartington, (doctoral thesis) 2001

  • New Music for French Viols, 1999 (Asclepius Editions)

  • Various facsimiles, 1999 (Asclepius Editions)

  • (As General Editor): Joseph Fiala (1748-1816) - Sonata in G major & Concertino in D major, for Viola da Gamba, Violin, & ‘Cello, with optional harpsichord continuo. Edited and realized by Dr David J Rhodes, 1998 (Asclepius Editions)

  • Carl Friedrich Abel - Six Sonatas for Two Violas da Gamba from The Countess of Pembroke’s Music Book, 1997 (Asclepius Editions)

  • Carl Friedrich Abel - Six Sonatas for Two Violas da Gamba from The Countess of Pembroke’s Music Book, Vol 2, 1997 (Asclepius Editions)

  • Mr Chetwoode - Four fantasias for three viols, 1997 (Asclepius Editions)

  • John Sheppard - Three motets transcribed for three viols, 1997 (Asclepius Editions)

  • 'Piano tuning techniques and the tuning characteristics of pianos considered as an effect of inharmonicity and mode coupling', Journal of the Institute of Musical Instrument Technology, 4, 3, 1991, pp. 91-126.