Lexington Piano Movers Who Move Pianos Every Week

Every piano move is built around three priorities: protect the instrument, protect the property, and finish the job without rushing the dangerous parts. A typical piano move with us includes the following.

Pre-Move Assessment and Route Planning
Before the truck arrives, we walk through both the pickup and delivery sites. We measure doorways, count stair turns, check for landings, look at the truck access at both addresses, and identify any furniture or fixtures that need to come out of the path. For homeowners asking about piano moving cost, this is where the estimate gets built. The number reflects the crew size, the equipment, and the time your specific piano move actually requires, not a flat rate that ignores the staircase.

Upright Piano Movers
Uprights, consoles, and spinets typically weigh 300 to 800 pounds. They look manageable but they are top-heavy, and the wrong tilt can damage the casework or the action inside. Our upright piano movers use padded skids, four-wheel dollies, and proper strapping to keep the weight controlled through every doorway and stair turn. The piano is wrapped, padded, and secured to the truck before it leaves your driveway.

Baby Grand and Grand Piano Movers
Baby grands and concert grands require a different process entirely. The legs and lyre come off. The piano is rotated onto its side, set on a padded piano board, strapped securely, and tilted onto a heavy-duty dolly. Our grand piano movers handle disassembly, transport, reassembly, and proper repositioning at the new location. Pieces this large simply cannot be moved standing upright through residential homes, and trying is how legs get broken.

Stairs, Tight Turns, and Walkups
Plenty of pianos live in second-floor music rooms, finished basements with narrow stairs, or third-floor walkups in Cambridge and Arlington. Our crew brings stair climbers, additional manpower, and the experience to plan the angles correctly. Every staircase is different, and every piano has a center of gravity that has to be respected on the way down or up.

Local and Long-Distance Piano Transport
We handle local piano moves across Greater Boston and full piano transport jobs out of state. Long-distance piano moves include climate considerations during transit, careful padding inside the truck, and an inventoried delivery at the destination. Whether the piano is moving down the street or across the country, the crew and the equipment are the same.

Intra-Home and Repositioning Moves
Sometimes the piano is not leaving the house at all. A finished basement is being converted, a music room is being renovated, the living room is being rearranged. We handle in-home piano moves for repositioning, room-to-room transfers, and floor refinishing projects where the piano needs to be temporarily relocated and then moved back.

Tuning Recommendation
Pianos should always be retuned after a move, even a short one. The combination of vibration, temperature change, and humidity shift will pull the strings out of pitch. We recommend waiting two to four weeks after the move before scheduling the tuning so the piano can settle into its new environment first.