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PIANO BEL CANTO

Most of us have been there: ‘It’s essentially a heave-ho job and your heart is in your mouth.’ Paul Wee has just moved house, and with him have gone the Steinway grand and Yamaha AvantGrand which occupy his waking hours when he isn’t attending to the small matter of his day job as a barrister in commercial law.

Like litigation, piano moving is best left to the experts, so he engaged Piano Logistics, on the basis that ‘if they’re good enough for Steinway, they’re good enough for me.’ The Yamaha is there to solve ‘a classic London pianist problem’: no one

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