Handle a piano the way you would a couch and you wind up with a hurt mover and a ruined instrument. A plain upright is close to 300 pounds; a full grand tops half a ton, and the weight bunches up right where a bad grip turns into a disaster. That is the reason it never goes out alongside the regular crew. A separate specialty team takes it on, working with skid and piano boards, deep padding, and rated straps instead of brute strength. Plan on $330 to $500 for an upright and $570 to $870 for a baby grand, said out loud before a soul lifts.
A grand is taken down before it moves. The pedal assembly and the lyre come off, the legs come off, and the body is eased onto its long edge against a padded board, then shrouded and ratcheted snug. An upright also rides a board, cushioned and walked through every doorway by people drilled to stop that weight from getting loose on a sill or in a cramped Deep Ellum stair. The floors stay covered and the finish stays protected all the way through. Dylan’s years on a dispatch board show: we chart and measure the run, curb to room, before a hand lands on the instrument.
The Uptown high-rise and the gun safe in one visit
Around Dallas a piano booking rarely ends at the piano. The Uptown high-rises and the Deep Ellum lofts holding a grand tend to hold a gun safe or some other dead-weight object as well, and we clear those on the same call. A loaded safe near 700 pounds, sitting thirty floors up in an Uptown unit or behind a snug loft service cab, demands the same board, the same dolly, and the same crew size a grand would. We tape the corners and the doorways, settle on a route, file the property’s insurance certificate, and bring no more hands than the weight justifies.
What the specialty team takes on
- Spinets, consoles, and uprights
- Baby grands and concert grands, broken down the right way for the road
- Gun safes and other dead-weight objects in high-rises and lofts
- Instruments that have to come down a Deep Ellum stair or up into an Uptown tower
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What's Included
- A pianos-only specialty team that works apart from the day crew
- Skid and piano boards plus dollies rated far above the load on them
- Grands stripped for the road, the lyre and pedal assembly and legs off and cushioned
- Deep padding and rated straps that keep the case from budging
- An upright quoted at $330 to $500 and a baby grand at $570 to $870, before the lift
- Heavy dead-weight objects, gun safes among them, taken on across high-rises and lofts
- Corners and doorways taped, the route nailed down, before a hand touches it
- Coverage to $1M on each instrument move and each heavy-object 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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