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Piano moving up or down up to 4 consecutive low steps at any given point in the move path can be accomplished by amateurs by simply using our piano moving techniques of tip and lift or lower that are much easier than having to actually carry the piano.
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If, and only if, you and your big, strong friends carefully follow our instructions you should be able to safely move your piano up or down four consecutive low steps or less anywhere in the move path.
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Carrying a piano over any more steps than that is another story, however.
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DIY Piano Moving Warnings
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Check out our video of professional piano movers carrying a small upright piano up more than 4 stairs. |
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The important thing to notice in this video is that even though these men make it look easy, the piano is trying to wobble all over the place! Because they're professional piano movers they know how to keep it steady. Watch it again and watch for the wobbling and see how they are constantly steadying it.
Actually carrying a piano forces the amateur out of the comparatively easy realm of the piano moving technique of tip and lift / lower and into the most difficult and dangerous part of piano moving - actually carrying the piano. As you can see watching the video, traversing more than 4 consecutive low steps at any given point in the move path requires complicated piano carrying techniques.
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This is an important warning about piano moving!
With large or small pianos, their extreme weight brings such great danger on a piano carry that we 99% advise against amateurs attempting to do it. |
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Winding / Circular Stairs
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This is another important DIY piano moving warning!
If any piano must go up / down winding circular stairs we will not give instruction because in our opinion this situation is just too difficult and dangerous to be attempted by amateurs. |
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Winding / circular stairs require the piano moving services of highly skilled experienced professionals in order to avoid personal injury and / or to avoid property damage to the stairs or to the piano.
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There is just no easy way to move a piano up / down a winding stairway. |
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There is almost no opportunity for the crew to stop and set the piano down on the steps in the middle of the winding stairway. So, the piano must be carried up / down the winding stairs without stopping which requires exact, precise, top level piano moving technique combined with properly-focused brute strength!
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We highly recommend that only trained professionals
move pianos up / down winding circular stairs!
Please do not do this kind of piano move yourself!
This is one of our very important warnings about DIY piano moving! |
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4-Legged Pianos
Another Important DIY Piano Moving Warning!
If your small upright piano has 2 legs in front and also 2 more decorative legs in the back with the case hanging between them (like the one pictured below), then we again highly recommend that only professionals be used. Untrained people cannot handle this style of piano going up / down more than just 1 step at any given point in the move path without a 99% chance of damaging the piano.
The indenting of the piano's lower casing to accommodate its decorative rear legs interferes with the normal - piano on its side on the dolly - moving procedure used when traversing more than 1 step. As you can see, there is nowhere to place the dolly under this kind of piano's side without part of the piano overhanging and dragging the ground. Professional will fill this gap with big phone books.
If, during the entire piano move, the piano is only traversing one step at a time then it can be successfully moved on its feet on the dolly. We will train you to move this kind of piano with the dolly under its bottom instead of under its side but this only works with a maximum of one step at any given point anywhere in the move path. If you will encounter 2 or more consecutive steps the piano should instead be handled by a qualified experienced professional piano mover.
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Because of the difficulties inherent
in this particular kind of piano's design
we highly recommend that amateurs do not attempt to move it if there are 2 or more consecutive steps at any given point in the move path!
Instead, please just pay the trained professional!
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Big Upright Pianos
If the piano is a 'big upright piano' (over 48" high - weighing 500-900 lbs.) or if it is a 'big upright player piano' (increasing the overall weight of the piano by 100 to 200 lbs.), we highly recommend only moving it to / from locations with no more than four consecutive low steps at any given point in the move path.
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This is another very important warning about diy piano moving!
'Big upright pianos' and 'big upright player pianos'
are extremely heavy and therefore very dangerous
to the people actually doing the piano move.
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If more than 4 consecutive low steps at any given point in the move path must be traversed then the piano must be carried by the movers and this extreme dead weight is just beyond what the normal person can bear! Any kind of minor out of balance condition can very quickly and easily put people in the hospital and / or clobber the piano.
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We seriously recommend that big "KILLER UPRIGHTS"
only be moved
by professional movers,
if over four consecutive low steps are going to be encountered
at any given point in the move path.
In the moving industry upright pianos taller than 50"
are respectfully referred to as
"KILLER UPRIGHTS!"
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If you have now decided to not move your piano yourself then find a in your area.
If we haven't yet talked you out of moving your piano yourself and you're still interested in finding out more about do-it-yourself piano moving, then please proceed to....
Piano Moving Equipment Costs
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