Estate & Downsizing Piano Moves | Mt Auburn Piano Movers

An inherited piano weighs on a family beyond its actual poundage. A grand has held a parent’s parlor for half a century, the house is being emptied after a passing or a move into assisted living, and the question of what becomes of it falls to grown children who never pictured making that call. Mt Auburn Piano Movers has worked these moves since 2009, and because Paul Marchetti came up around the very conservatories his uncle once served, the crew shows up understanding the instrument means far more than whatever it would fetch. We work to the family’s tempo, whether the piano heads to a grandchild’s place in Newton, to a buyer from an estate sale across the metro, or into our climate room until everyone decides on its proper home.

Frequently the piano is the single thing the family cannot resolve. We talk it through with nothing rushing the conversation: will the upright suit a downsizing parent’s smaller apartment, will a grand fit through the doorway of a daughter’s Belmont colonial, does it make better sense to hold it while the estate winds down or send it straight to the new owner. We size up the receiving space beforehand, so a grand is not carried clear across the metro only to stall at a condo’s tight corner. Where the piano is being sold off or given away rather than kept, we line up the handover with whoever, a buyer or a music school, is taking it.

Come move day, the instrument gets identical care whether it is a cherished family grand or a humble spinet headed for donation. The grand goes onto a skid board, sheds its legs, lyre, and pedals to wrapping, rides over runners laid across the floors, and wears padding against every mark. A good share of these jobs finish at a parent’s new residence or care suite, where the desk wants proof of insurance, a saved parking spot, and a reserved elevator or dock window; we settle that directly with the staff so it never falls to the family. One piano crew sees the work through from first lift to last, with no fresh strangers cycled in midway.

Should the family need the instrument held while the estate winds down or the next home is chosen, it can sit in our climate-controlled piano storage until a date firms up. Should it be shipped a long way or kept in care for months, our piano crating and packing builds it a proper crate, our truck and our same crew throughout.

Tell us where the piano stands today and where it has to end up, and we shape the entire plan to suit the family. Get a written quote and we will respond within one business hour.

What’s Included

• Calm guidance on whether the piano is kept, passed to a relative, sold, or given away
• The receiving space sized up beforehand, so a grand is not hauled only to stall at a tight corner
• A cherished family grand or a humble donation spinet handled with identical care on identical boards
• The grand set on a skid board, its legs, lyre, and pedals shed to wrapping, then put back
• The handover arranged with whoever takes it: a buyer, a relative, or a music school
• Care-residence red tape settled: proof of insurance, the saved spot, the reserved elevator or dock
• A single piano crew through the whole job, with no fresh strangers cycled in midway
• A spot in our climate room whenever the estate or the next home has yet to firm up