It’s pretty common knowledge that hiring a professional company for a long-distance move will drastically cut down on the stress and drastically improve your chances of a smooth, problem-free relocation. Sure, small moves for an individual just starting out in a new apartment can readily be handled by a U-Haul and a few friends with willing arms, but when a whole family and their whole household is pulling up anchor? With their furniture, technology, trunks, bunks, and gardening tools? It’s a no-brainer for large loads, heavy items, precious goods, and family heirlooms.

But what about when you just need something heavy moved down the road or even elsewhere in your own home? Like if Aunt Linda is finally ready to take your grandmother’s huge china cabinet off your hands, or it’s time to move the piano from the basement to the living room or from the living room to the new music room? You might feel tempted to attempt this undertaking yourself or with a few guys-for-hire. That’s not advisable for several obvious, but nevertheless significant, reasons:

• Pianos are heavy. (And by “pianos,” we mean any hefty and possibly odd-shaped item.) Items of great weight cannot simply be carted around willy-nilly on a dolly or casters. There’s tipping and bending involved, securing loose parts and protecting breakable ones. There’s maneuvering around corners or even up and down steps. Consider this: The average piano weighs anywhere between 600 and 1,100 pounds. Risk of injury is real and damage to the item is probable.
• Pianos are expensive. If someone’s going to go to the hassle of moving something of great weight, it’s clearly something of great value to them (and likely to their wallet as well!). Something like a piano in the garage, an antique trunk in the attic, or an old-time safe in the back of a closet is often a prized possession that has been handed down through the generations. And if it’s something you’d want to replace if it breaks, that could cost thousands. You don’t want to trust an investment like that to amateurs.
• Pianos are cumbersome. When you’re talking about an exceptionally expensive and exceedingly heavy piece, it’s the sheer bulk of it that makes moving it so dicey and difficult. We’ve all heard stories of the pool table that was never level again or the piano that never sounded the same again after moving, the splintered legs or the scratched surfaces. Oddly proportioned, awkwardly weighted items like these that are larger than three refrigerators can cause a lot of damage when mishandled—to the item itself, to your home, and/or to your person.

So what’s the short answer to “How do I move my piano”? By using a professional moving company—we know what we’re doing even when we don’t do it with a truck! We have experienced and informed solutions to your challenges, we have the proper tools to properly handle your valuables, and we have the training to do so quickly and successfully. At first, you might be hesitant to pay for what you consider a short move of a single item. But when you think about what it might cost you in terms of home repairs, medical bills, or replacement expenses if something goes awry, it’s definitely worth a small investment to yield large savings on time, energy, efficiency, and safety.

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