For one night only: Mr Jools Holland OBE We had the pleasure of moving the Kent Pianos: “Play with the Stars” Yamaha G2 White Grand piano for Mr Jools Holland OBE. Jools Holland attended a retirement service for Reverend Edward Wright of St Georges Church in Wrotham, Kent, the same church where Jools married his wife, Christabel, in 2005. Our …
Secret film set
Kent Piano Movers were lucky enough to be called out to an undisclosed film set for top secret piano moving duties. If you recognise this hall in anything you watch soon, let us know!
By Royal Appointment
King George IV’s piano at the Royal Brighton Pavilion for a Channel 4 documentary Kent Piano Movers were appointed to move King George IV’s piano to and from the Brighton Pavilion Palace for a Channel 4 documentary called Royal Antiques Revived, hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell. The Broadwood grand piano was delivered to King George IV at the Royal Pavilion …
An impossible move at a Cornish cliff top
‘They Said it Couldn’t Be Done’ The intrepid trio take on yet another job that no one else would even give a quote for. Today we set off to Cornwall to do the impossible. A client contacted Kent Piano Movers asking if we would move a piano across a cliff top and take it down the side of the cliff …
Rain and steps with tight corners
It had to rain… Today our excited customer was receiving his as-new Yamaha U1. This was a tricky move, but we had our Kent Piano Movers team on the case. Our van had to be parked in the middle of the road, and we had to move it a number of occasions to let the traffic past. The weather just …
The Ludwig: our largest piano move
Today we moved a beautiful Ludwig piano it was one of the largest Piano Kent pianos has moved.
Up and up and up
Challenge accepted The Intrepid Trio were out again in the beautiful countryside of Kent. We had previously done a site visit for a client who needed a piano taken upstairs. With a low stairwell ceiling and a tight turn this job was not as straight forward as it seemed. Our client told us that no one else would take on …
Tight-rope disposal: a grand piano from a window
Today we were in Kent where we had a grand piano disposal. That was originally put into the building it was in with a crane. Low ceilings, beams and a tight staircase meant that the piano was never coming out the front door. With the Kent Piano Movers equipment, we soon rigged up a secure ramp to get this 100-year-old …
First floor: no problem
Time to ramp up Today the Intrepid Duo we were in North London where a customer needed their piano on first floor, with seemingly no way to get it up there from the ground floor. But something like that doesn’t stop Kent Piano Movers! We had done a previous site visit and designed a ramp from the ground to the …
The House of Cricket
We moved a piano today at the so called ‘House of Cricket’. For any cricket enthusiasts, the Bligh family held the ashes trophy here from when they were originally presented to England cricket captain Ivo Bligh in 1882, til his death in 1927 when they were presented to the MCC. The cabinet of treasures and this bit of English history …
No Drinks On The Piano!
This is one of the best converted pianos we’ve ever seen; and believe us we’ve seen our fair share! All we can say is, CHEERS!