A Trained Team and Specialized Equipment for Something That Punishes One Mistake
Picture the object honestly: a few hundred pounds of cast-iron harp wrapped in lacquered wood that gives nowhere and remembers every careless knock forever. Hand it to a general moving crew improvising past a narrow rowhouse turn and a permanent scuff is practically the plan. That’s why I route these jobs to a team that does nothing else. They use a piano skid riding on four casters together with a purpose-made plank, lock it down under ratchets, and pile on heavy quilted pads. Nobody outside my own roster touches it, so you’ll never have a stranger rolling the dice on a corner while the thing teeters.
Equipment and Technique
- Quilted pads, ratchet tie-downs, a casters-on-four skid plus a plank made for keyboards
- With a grand, detaching and wrapping both the leg set and pedal assembly, body riding the plank
- Movers fluent in the snug bends and stairs typical of the region’s older rowhouses
- Wall surfaces, openings, rails and flooring guarded across the whole carry path
- Tied off tightly enough to sit motionless the full ride
The Sequence on the Day
We open by mapping the route, putting down protection, and shielding each rail and run of wall before the very first lean. Uprights stay vertical, anchored to the skid. Grands get the legs and pedal assembly detached and padded, the body laid onto a quilted plank, then rolled out on one edge under braces. An icy porch or a gravel-pitched drive means salt and clearing on both the path and the ramp before anybody hoists, because a single misstep beneath that mass is precisely the wreck the entire procedure rules out. High-rise jobs get the freight elevator reserved so the keyboard skips the stairs entirely.
Past Our Scope
Safe transport is mine; tuning is yours to arrange afterward, ideally a fortnight on, after the piano adjusts to its new spot. Internal repairs and tired wheels likewise go to a tech. Notice a shaky leg or a pre-existing split in the finish? Tell me up front and the carry gets planned to avoid it.
Pricing
Set aside $390 to $550 covering an upright or console, $480 to $760 toward a baby grand, then $680 to $1,240 on a full grand; each band peaks where stairs or a long haul to the threshold come into play. I pin the exact figure the moment I’ve seen both the piano and the route.
Get the specialty team onto your keyboard relocation at (888) 711-4778.
