A piano is not furniture, and treating it as such is how people end up injured and instruments end up wrecked. The smaller uprights already approach 300 pounds, while a full grand tips past half a ton, all of that weight balanced where a careless grip will hurt you. So this never goes to the regular crew. A trained specialty team handles it, working with skid boards, piano boards, heavy quilts, and proper ratchet straps rather than muscle and luck.
A grand gets disassembled before it moves: pedals and lyre off, legs off, the body eased onto its side on a padded skid board, then fully wrapped and cinched down. Uprights ride a board too, padded and guided through each opening by hands who know how to keep half a ton from getting away from them on a threshold or in a pinched hallway. Throughout, we keep cover over your flooring and a guard on the instrument’s finish.
A piano call in Glen Rose rarely stops at the piano. The county ranch houses and the lake estates near Granbury and Pecan Plantation also hold gun safes and similar immovable objects, and those ride with us on the same visit. Picture a 700-pound safe in a ranch study: it draws the identical board, dolly, and head count as a grand would. Before the first lift, we measure and tape the openings and the corners, settle on a route, and bring only as many hands as the load genuinely calls for.
What the specialty team takes on
- Console models, spinets, and uprights
- Full concert grands and baby grands, properly disassembled for transport
- Gun safes and similar immovable objects at ranch and lake estates
- Instruments that must be worked down a steep lake deck or a pinched stairway
Want the piano folded into a full household move? Our residential moving crew can clear the entire home in a single day. Relocating it across state lines? That rides on our own authority, covered over on the long-distance moving page. Get a free quote and you will hear back within one business hour.
What's Included
- A trained specialty team that works pianos, not the everyday crew
- Skid boards, piano boards, and dollies rated well above the load
- Grands disassembled for transport, pedals, lyre, and legs off and padded
- Heavy quilts and proper ratchet straps holding the case dead-still
- Gun safes and similar immovable objects handled at ranch and lake estates
- Openings and corners measured and taped, and a route set, before the first lift
- Steep lake decks and pinched stairways planned out ahead of move day
- Up to $1M in cargo protection on every instrument and specialty job
What Does It Cost?
Uprights $300–$460 · baby grands $540–$820
Flat rate by instrument, stairs, and access — set in writing before move day.
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