Rosanne De Luca

As for your service today, and yesterday, I take note for any future need. I won’t need to hunt around again! I am grateful for your quick and friendly service. Moving two pianos on such short notice? We must be between festivals! But from my perspective I saw one piano out and relocated, and a cherished clunker out. Both home owners probably still are smiling, and I’ll try to be patient waiting for the new-to-me Yamaha to settle in. I can’t wait.

Punctual, polite, and taking a few extra minutes to find the right screwdriver and help a lady unscrew her family’s retiring piano’s top lid hinge for some future, unknown project or keepsake – priceless. That plank of wood holds our family’s lifetime (aka thousands of hours) of familiar fingerprints and good vibrations. We simply worn her out with our love for playing, and you made saying goodbye a bit easier. Sentimentality runs deep in us all, and I appreciate your professionalism and kindness. On behalf of all six of us De Luca piano players, and growing, we thank you!

Katrina and Rob

This is to confirm another excellent move by the Don Pinard Team! Thank you for the communications leading up to the move. I also greatly appreciated the text letting us know they were nearby. The move itself was music in motion. Dennis, Devon, and Daniel were delightful and clearly knowledgeable. Have a great day knowing that you and your team most certainly made ours!

Punctual, polite, and taking a few extra minutes to find the right screwdriver and help a lady unscrew her family’s retiring piano’s top lid hinge for some future, unknown project or keepsake – priceless. That plank of wood holds our family’s lifetime (aka thousands of hours) of familiar fingerprints and good vibrations. We simply worn her out with our love for playing, and you made saying goodbye a bit easier. Sentimentality runs deep in us all, and I appreciate your professionalism and kindness. On behalf of all six of us De Luca piano players, and growing, we thank you!

Shannyn Johnson
Acting Loans Officer
Canadian War Museum

My mother’s family’s prized possession was a Heintzman piano that was purchased by the family in 1931 at the very high cost of $1000. My mother and her brother both studied piano when they lived in Vancouver, and her brother was offered a scholarship at Trinity College in Ireland to study piano performance. He never went to Ireland, and was instead interned at Kaslo, BC with his family when the Canadian government invoked the war measures act (sending Japanese Canadians from B.C to prison camps, road construction camps and prairie sugar beet fields). My mother’s family had had their piano stored with friends in Kelowna, but missed the piano so much that they paid to have it moved to the internment camp. It later moved to various places in Ontario with the family after the government told the internees they had to move east of the Rockies or “back to Japan” (a large proportion of the internees had never been to Japan). It is still a very high-quality piano and I am very happy that the War Museum recognizes its significance as a symbol of the Japanese Canadian internment.