Treat a piano like a chest of drawers and someone gets hurt while the instrument gets ruined. A spinet might tip the scale near 300 pounds; a concert grand sails past a thousand, with the mass hung in a way that wrecks anyone who lifts it casually. That’s why we keep a separate specialty crew on it, run by Hector Salazar, who’s handled pianos for us going on years. The job calls for piano boards, skid boards, deep padding, and real strapping, not a pair of guys and crossed fingers.
With a grand, the body comes down to a padded skid board on its side after the legs and the lyre come off, then the whole thing is wrapped and lashed before it budges. An upright gets boarded, padded, and walked with the technique that holds the weight in check across stairs and through narrow doorways. Floors and finish stay covered the entire route.
Across the Valley these calls often pull in more than the piano. We move the gun safes and other dead-weight specialty pieces that ride alongside the instrument in the larger estates of Paradise Valley and the gated stretches of north Scottsdale. A 700-pound safe coming out of a Fountain Hills study draws the same boards, plate, and crew count as the baby grand in the living room. We tape out the doorways and the turns, plot the route before anyone bends a knee, and bring exactly the crew the weight demands.
Pianos and pieces we take on
- Uprights, spinets, and console models
- Baby grands and full concert grands, properly broken down
- Gun safes and heavy specialty items in Paradise Valley and Scottsdale estates
- High-rise jobs that need a freight elevator and a certificate of insurance
Moving the piano inside a full household relocation? Our residential moving crew can take the entire home the same day. Relocating the instrument across state lines? We carry that on our own authority, over on the long-distance moving page. Get a free quote and a reply lands inside one business hour.
What's Included
- A separate specialty crew drilled on uprights and grands
- Skid boards, piano boards, and four-wheelers rated to carry the load
- Grands taken down properly, legs and lyre off and padded
- Heavy quilting and real ratchet straps to lock the instrument in place
- Gun-safe and heavy-specialty handling on estate jobs
- Route plotted off taped measurements of the jambs and turns before anyone lifts
- Freight-elevator and COI coordination on high-rise jobs
- $1M in cargo coverage on every piano and specialty move
What Does It Cost?
Local crews from $125/hr — or a flat written rate
2-mover crew, truck, blankets & dollies included.
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