What To Look For When Choosing National Piano Movers?

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Moving and relocating heavy musical instruments of great value takes special technique and planning as they are bulky and fragile at the same time. Thus, hiring professional and high-grade piano movers San Diego is highly important to avoid any kind of damage to your expensive instrument. When looking for piano movers and storage Company, it should be your top priority to do detailed research on the reliability and trustworthiness factors of different companies. Keep reading to learn how you can avoid lousy piano moving companies and select the right one which can do a perfect job for you.




1. Check Piano Mover’s Credentials

All the professional and authentic piano moving companies are licensed and registered with the Department of Transportation. Ensure to verify that the company you are going to hire holds all legal credentials. This will ensure that the company is fully trained to work as a skilled and professional specialist by taking all the industry safety and security measures of moving a piano.

2. Background and Experience

One should also look for the real background and experience history of a company to know how they actually deal with people. A proven record will make you ensure the fact that a company is able to deliver standard results. Moving piano is a specialist area and for damage free results, it is highly recommended to hire a well-experienced company as they know all the right techniques of moving.

3. Proper Storage Solution

Apart from providing piano moving services, a good company also offers temporary storage solutions for your instruments. Companies that specialize in piano moving services also know the best way to store them. In addition, make sure to check properly that the storage place that company offers should be entirely clean, climate controlled, and free of moisture. This is because pianos are made of wood and excessive moisture can degrade the quality of wood.

4. Verify Insurance Coverage

To protect your piano against any kind of damage during moving, it is necessary to verify insurance coverage. Before hiring any company, do not forget to ask them to give you a certificate from their insurance company. In most of the cases, the insurance policy provides enough amount of optimal coverage. Verifying insurance coverage will ensure if any incident of damage to piano happens, then you will be properly compensated.

5. Team and Right Equipment

Do a little research about the team of the company you are going to hire. A skilled and professional team always pre-visits your location to assess the various factors associated with the moving of the piano. They should own the premium-quality and right kinds of equipment to move around the piano and package it properly as well. Ask them about their procedure of moving a piano.

Final Thought!

Last but not the least, before hiring piano movers San Diego, compares the cost structure of various piano movers and storage companies. After choosing the right company for your needs, sign a contract with them.

Instituto Cervantes Presents Discussion “Intramuros, the Underrated Jewel of Manila”

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Cognizant of the importance of Intramuros as a key symbol of Philippine heritage, the Instituto Cervantes, with the collaboration of the Embassy of Spain and the Intramuros Administration, presents “Intramuros, the Underrated Jewel”, a round-table discussion in which various Spanish and Filipino experts on fortifications will tackle the challenges of conservation of the walled city. The forum will be held on February 18, Tuesday, at 2 PM at the Intramuros branch of Instituto Cervantes, located at Plaza San Luis Complex, Real St., Intramuros.

The walled City of Manila is a cultural icon with historical significance for the Filipinos. Destroyed during the Second World War, the city has risen from its ruins, with the Philippine government entrusting the preservation of the historical site to the Intramuros Administration, whose mandate is to ensure that the general appearance of Intramuros shall conform to Philippine-Spanish architecture of the 16th to the 19th century. 

Various Spanish experts on fortifications of this period –Alfredo J. Morales, Ignacio J. López Hernández, Manuel Gámez Casado, and Pedro Luengo– and Intramuros Administrator Atty. Guiller B. Asido, will discuss the exceptional historical worth, as well as explore the challenges of proper conservation and highlight the significance of Intramuros, whose design mostly corresponds to the eighteenth-century, and is a remarkable case in the international historical heritage scene.

Morales is a historian from the Universidad de Sevilla, where he obtained his Doctorate in Art History and is currently a professor of Art History at the Faculty of Geography and History in the same university. He collaborates with UNESCO as an expert in historical heritage in different projects developed in Latin America.

López Hernández is a professor at the Universidad de Almería and Doctor in History - specializing in Art History - from the Universidad de Sevilla. He also has a degree in Art History and a Master's Degree in Andalusian and Latin American Artistic Heritage. He has published different articles, chapters and a monograph on the history of engineering and engineers in Cuba and the Caribbean America.

Gámez Casado graduated in Art History from the Universidad de Sevilla and earned his Master in Andalusian Artistic Heritage and its Ibero-American projection from the same university. His post-doctoral thesis on military engineering in the Viceroyalty of New Granada during the eighteenth century was given a secondary award in research and investigation category. His publications analyze the work of Spanish military engineers in the Modern Age, in America and in other territories belonging to the Spanish Crown.

Luengo is a member of the Department of Art History of the Universidad de Sevilla and is a Doctor of Art History from the same institution with his thesis "Intramuros: Arquitectura en Manila, 1739-1788". He has conducted research stays in different international centers at San Agustin Museum (Manila) in 2009, at the Institute of Aesthetic Research (Mexico) in 2010, at the European University Institute (Florence) in 2011, among others.

Lastly, Atty. Asido is the current Administrator of Intramuros Administration. He is a graduate of the Royal and Pontifical University of Santos Tomas, with the following degrees – Master of Laws (Cum Laude), Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts, major in Literature. He has also served in various capacities in the Philippines’ Tourism Infrastructure, as well as in the Office of the Presidential Adviser for Political Affairs; the Senate of the Republic of the Philippines and the Department of Health.

The round-table discussion will be moderated by Dr. Javier Galván, Director of Instituto Cervantes de Manila. Dr. Galván obtained his Doctorate in Architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid, on the topic: “Architecture in the Philippines from Spanish period.”

The round-table at Instituto Cervantes is open to the public. Admission is free. For further information, please check out Instituto Cervantes’ Facebook page: www.facebook.com/InstitutoCervantesManila, or call Instituto Cervantes at (632) 8526 1482.

“PUENTES: Bridging Lands through Bodies of Water” Exhibit to Open at Museo El Deposito on 15 February 2020

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The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), together with the College of Saint Benilde, Center for Service Learning and A. B. Photography, will open the “PUENTES: Bridging Lands through Bodies of Water” at the Museo El Deposito in the City of San Juan on15 February 2020, Saturday, 2:00 p.m.



Since ancient times, bridges have been constructed not only to ease travel and transport of goods, but also to connect communities separated by rivers and gorges. The first stone bridges in the country were built during the Spanish period, becoming lasting colonial legacies that changed the urban and rural terrain of the Philippines.




This exhibit features the historical significance of these stone bridges, particularly in Metropolitan Manila. The history of how each bridge was constructed gives us a glimpse of the beginnings of a systematized way of public works in the Spanish Philippines, and brings to the fore the engineering and labor forces that contributed to the nascent development of the country’s infrastructure.



The NHCP is the national government agency mandated to promote and preserve Philippine history and heritage through its administration of national shrines, museums, research and publication, conservation, and marking of historic sites and structures.



For more information, contact the Museo El Deposito via telephone number (02) 8753-5439 or email museoeldeposito@gmail.com.