Malvern Concert Club has been hiring Steinway D grand pianos from Jeffrey Shackell for many years, and is delighted to recommend them to all discerning music-lovers. Every possible care is taken in the transportation and tuning of the instruments, and this is an integral part, on which we know we can rely, of the very high quality of our recitals.
Linda Jennings (Honorary Secretary)

Pianos for Hire

Shackell Pianos Ltd has supplied STEINWAY and YAMAHA concert instruments for orchestras, music clubs, concert halls, recording companies and private venues from the south coast to the Lake District.

Delivery of Concert Grand using Klavier RollerJeffrey purchased his first Steinway model 'B' for hire use in 1981, this was followed by purchasing a brand new Steinway model 'B' in 1984 from Steinway Hall, something of a red letter day for him! Further Steinway and Yamaha concert grands were acquired over the years including another brand new Steinway from Steinway Hall in 1995, this time a model 'D' concert grand.

From 1984 concert piano hire has played a leading role in Jeffrey's work schedule and a huge number of concerts have seen a piano supplied by Shackell Pianos Ltd. 

Shackell Pianos continues to offer first class instruments for concert hire and Steinway and Yamaha grands are kept specifically for concert use.

Jeffrey now has the use of the wonderful klavier roller system, the first one in the UK. This allows the moving and transporting of a full concert grand by one man!

Our instruments for hire stock include;

  • STEINWAY model 'D' 8' 10" concert grands (two)
  • Yamaha C5 6' 7" grand
  • Yamaha G3 6' grand
For fifteen years Shackell Pianos Ltd have been the preferred supplier for our Music at Leisure weekends in all parts of this country. In tendering their prices have been the keenest, the pianos are always in first class condition, delivered and collected at the arranged times with faultless service and tuning. The leading international pianists I book are always delighted with the instrument provided. And Shackell Pianos Ltd really care.
Leonard Pearcey, Director, Music at Leisure

 

Some Pianists who have played a piano supplied by Shackell Pianos Ltd

Dmitri Alexeev
Roy Howat
Sanae Nakajima
Anya Alexeyev
William Howard
Cecile Ousset
Piotr Anderszewski
Ian Hobson
Vladimir Ovchinikov
Alexander Ardakov
John Humphreys
Marios Papadopoulos
Andrew Ball
Amander Hurton
Lucy Parham
Kenneth van Barthold
Niel Immelman
Jennifer Partridge
Malcolm Binns
Julian Jacobson
Jonathan Plowright
John Bingham
Martin Jones
Murray Perahia
Mark Bebbington
Peter Katin
Margaret Fingerhut
Boris Berezovsky
Eduard Kunz
Ian Fountain
Alfred Brendel KBE
Freddy Kempf
Philip Fowke
Ian Brown
Stephen Kovacevich
William Fong
Iain Burnside
Piers Lane
Noriko Ogawa
Caroline Clemmow
Vanessa Latarche
Christina Ortiz
Claire & Toni Cann
Paul Lewis
David Owen Noriss
Robin Colvill
John Lill CBE
Ronan O'Hora
Imogen Cooper
Barry Douglas
Stephen Osborne
Stephen Coombs
Gretel Dowdeswell
John Lenehan
Martin Cousin
Michael Dussek
James Lisney
Paul Crossley
Philip Dyson
Radu Lupu
Alexandra Dariescu
Christopher Elton
Bernard Roberts
Bernard D’Ascoli
James Gibb
Paul Roberts
Nikolai Demidenko Anthony Goldstone Michael Roll
Emanuel Des Pax Sasha Grynyuk Martin Roscoe
Danny Driver Leon McCawley Mikhail Rudy
Stephen De Pledge Murray McLachlan Allan Schiller
Peter Donohoe CBE Joanna MacGregor Craig Sheppard
Alfredo Perle Anna Markland Philip Smith
Jonathan Phillips Richard Markham Ronald Smith
Tom Poster Philip Martin Grigory Sokolov
Anthony Purkiss Ann Martin Davis Melanie Spanswick
Anne Queffelec Wayne Marshall Ronald Stephenson
Angela Hewitt Richard Meyrick Colin Stone
Stephen Hough Jeremy Menuhin Kathryn Stott
Elizabeth Hayes Hamish Milne Kathron Sturrok
Ching-Yun Hu Peter Nagy Martino Tirimo
Rosalyn Tureck Ayako Uehara Tamas Vasary
Roger Vignoles Nicholas Walker Andrew West
Frank Wibaut David Wilde Marguerite Wolff
Emanuel Peter Frankl Benjamin Frith
Jack Gibbons