Piano Movers in Somerville, MA | Mt Auburn Piano Movers

Somerville is the densest piano town we serve, a city of triple-deckers stacked shoulder to shoulder from Davis Square through Union Square to Winter Hill. The third-floor walk-ups here have the steepest, tightest switchback stairs in the region, often with a low ceiling at the top landing and a porch rail to thread on the way down. A lot of the instruments are uprights and consoles in young musicians’ flats near Tufts, plus the occasional baby grand that someone hauled up years ago and now has to get back down. Paul Marchetti grew up nearby and trained as a piano technician before founding Mt Auburn Piano Movers in 2009, and a Somerville third-floor descent is the move that tells a piano crew apart from a furniture crew.

We plan a Somerville move stair by stair, because the building is unforgiving. Our crew walks the switchback before the date, measures the top-landing clearance and the porch turn, and sets the skid board and straps for a slow, controlled descent. An upright at 300 to 500 pounds on a steep three-story Somerville stair needs four hands and a spotter, not speed, and we keep the case padded so a tight corner never scuffs the cabinet or jars the soundboard. When a console will not make the turn at the top, we look at the porch rail and, if there is no path, a crane lift to the third-floor window. Parking is tight on these streets, so we arrange the truck spot ahead and stage a short, clean carry to the curb. Our trucks are padded and climate-aware, which matters on a frozen January morning when a cold case is brittle.

A local upright in Somerville starts around $220 to $400 and a console around $280 to $480, with the steep three-story stairs adding roughly $40 to $75 a flight and a crane lift quoted separately if the stair has no path, every figure put on paper before we start work. Mt Auburn Piano Movers is a licensed and insured Massachusetts mover, holding a DPU household-goods carrier license, USDOT and MC authority for interstate piano transport, and $1M in cargo coverage. Ask Paul for a flat per-piano price on the estimate page. Read how our local piano moves cover.