Abels eNewsletter

Summer 2010

Welcome to the Summer 2010 issue


From July until September, year in, year out, removals firms experience a rush of people hoping to move home during the school holidays. Many removals firms are booked up weeks in advance, and some even have to disappoint potential customers due to the workload. More…

Abels has considerable expertise in moving fine art, from modern abstract to Renaissance masterpieces, with clients ranging from private individuals to museums and galleries.  This includes moving a priceless Bellini painting on behalf of two museums. Abels will relocate a painting locally or ship artwork across the globe as you require. More…

After a 49 year removals career, Peter Frake, 65, who lives in Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, has retired.

Peter joined Abels in 1981 when it bought the removals business from Huntingdon firm, Elphicks, and where he had been employed since leaving school. More…





Moving and transporting pianos The first practical piano was built in 1700 by an Italian, Bartolomeo Cristofori and the name comes from his original name for the instrument “piano et forte” meaning “soft and loud”. 

Abels has considerable experience in moving pianos, including some for very well known musicians. Instruments moved range from an upright, a baby grand, the boudoir grand, up to the finest concert grand pianos.  Indeed, some discerning customers still possess the now rarely seen harpsichord.  All Abels staff undergo rigorous training in preparing the instrument, packing or protecting the vulnerable parts, moving, unpacking and setting up, ready to be retuned in the new home. More…