In-Home Piano Moving in Greater Boston | Mt Auburn Piano Movers

Not every piano move leaves the house. A great many of them are about repositioning the instrument inside the home it already lives in, and that work asks for the same boards, dollies, and trained hands as a move across town. A family finishes a Brookline living room and wants the grand turned ninety degrees and set against a different wall. A Newton homeowner refinishes the floors and needs the upright lifted out of the way and brought back. A Belmont owner moves the console from the parlor down to a finished basement music room. Paul’s crews handle each of these the way they handle a full relocation, because a piano weighs the same whether it travels two miles or twenty feet.

In-home piano work covers more than a slide across the room. We tip a grand onto a skid board to clear it for a floor refinish, lift an upright over a raised hearth, carry an instrument up or down an interior staircase to a different level, and load a piano onto the truck for off-site floor work and bring it back when the room is ready. The legs, lyre, and pedals come off a grand for any move that turns a tight corner or takes a stair, then go back on once it lands. Runners protect the floors, quilting guards the finish, and the soundboard and pin block are kept from any jolt that an untrained lift would send through the case.

Every Greater Boston home poses its own puzzle. A center-entrance Lexington colonial has a back staircase a grand will never fit, so the piano leaves and returns through the front. A Cambridge condo has one interior turn so tight the legs must come off just to clear it. A Wellesley Victorian has a sunroom step that needs a ramp and a board. We walk the route before the date, set the truck where the carry is shortest, pad the doorframes and the newel post, and bring only the hands the weight calls for, four or more for a grand on a stair, fewer for a ground-floor upright shift.

The in-home piano jobs we take on regularly

• Repositioning a grand, upright, or console from one room or wall to another
• Lifting a piano clear for floor refinishing and setting it back afterward
• Carrying an instrument up or down an interior staircase to a different level
• Loading a piano onto the truck for off-site work and returning it to the room

Shipping the piano out or storing it long-term after the work? Our piano crating and packing builds it a proper crate. Facing a no-elevator walk-up or a switchback stair? See walk-up and staircase piano moving. Get a free quote and we will respond within one business hour.

What’s Included

• A piano-only crew sized to the instrument and the path, not a general furniture team
• A grand tipped onto a skid board and an upright eased onto a piano board for any move that turns a corner
• Legs, lyre, and pedals off a grand for a stair or a tight turn, then refitted once it lands
• The soundboard and pin block kept from any jolt an untrained lift would send through the case
• Runners across the floors and padding on the doorframes, newel post, and sills along the route
• A piano lifted clear for a floor refinish and set back when the room is ready
• Off-site loading onto the truck and a return to the room, when interior work calls for it
• Up to $1M in cargo coverage, with the per-piano figure on paper before a single lift