Shipping upright piano to Doha?

Hey, I am shipping my piano as well from malaysia. We are leaving Malaysia for good and my daughter adores her piano.
Any info on piano tuners and piano lessons would be useful
Ciao

Am using a mover called "intermovers" and they are charging us MYR 16,000 door to door.
You can call me in KL at 016-2961084 to exchange notes - mroe like the blind leading the blind - at least we can comfort each other and give each other some support!

Hi , I am a director of music at a school in doha and can email some information regarding private piano teachers (depending on level and what you want). As for sending your piano, I would strongly advise against it! due to huge cost and customs. There is only a couple of piano tuners here and much of the equipment I order gets damaged in customs.

You can get a really good yamaha touch sensitive pianos here for between 7 and 12 thousand riyal (with amazing features, intenet,recording etc). You can get a brand new yamaha upright for 12 - 15,000 riyal and there is always second hand options, esp if you are willing to hunt around. There are also more simple touch sensitive options for around 4-5 thousand riyal.

Anyway if you want some info about piano teachers chuck me an email. and welcome to Doha! we love fellow musicians.

graeme.musicteacher/-a-t-/gmail.com

Graeme

Modern home is the dealer of Yamaha musical instruments I bought a digital piano two month ago and I'm very satisfied with it so far, especially that I searched around a lot and fount that this is the best deal.
They have upright pianos as well, starting from QAR11,000. but tuning is a bit costly as it costs around QAR750 (you have to do it every 6 months or everytime you move it). re-selling the used piano is possible as the salesman told me. here is the Modern home umber:4422815. their website is not working which weird www.modernhome.com.q...

Hi Graeme ...

may I know how much are fees for piano classes? My girls are in grades 1 and 3. Are classes conducted in the student's home or in the music schools?

Do touch sensitive pianos mean the same as digital pianos? If so I am quite hesitant because I have heard many friends' experience that it is very difficult for the children to transit back to the normal piano when they become too used to the digital - basically because the touch is different. How true is this?

If you know of anyone keen to let go of their second hand, can you keep me posted? Thanks!

Gus ...

Where is modern home located? I will be making a trip to doha in June, and would like to make a visit. Is there any other schools/music stores that I should take a look at besides modern? I would like to make the best of the trip before we make the final move.

Besides looking for a piano, we are also sourcing for chidlren classes in
*piano,
*gym (does Mrs Innes of DESS have an email?),
*ballet, tap and modern dances (I have made contact with Paula, but is there anywhere else we should look?),
*art/painting

thanks so much! I am getting more and more excited by the day!

thanks Gus.

do you mind telling me how much it cost?

with us. It is an upright Yamaha. Our company paid shipping so don't know anything about that. No extra duty fee. I have seen ads for second hand pianos here, so they are available. Tuners are almost non existent. I called one and he wanted 1000QR. No way! Also, the moving trucks here do not have hydraulic lifts so everything is man handled off the trucks. I could not watch as 10 guys struggled for 45 minutes to get my piano off the truck. I was shocked when they actually managed to do it without crushing someone or having the piano end up in splinters.

My older kids started on a digital piano. My oldest played on it for 10 years before switching to the upright. She plays beautifully and there were no transition problems.