Climate-Controlled Piano Storage | Mt Auburn Piano Movers

There is usually a stretch where a piano has nowhere to be. The old house sells before you hold keys to the next one, a remodel drags past its date, a family wants the grand cleared out well ahead of the move-in, or a conservatory student heads home for the summer and cannot leave the instrument behind. Ordinary self-storage is the wrong call for a piano, because what wrecks one is the air around it, not a burglar. So Mt Auburn Piano Movers runs a purpose-built climate room at the Watertown shop, and the crew that wraps and collects your piano is the one that returns it, with nobody else touching it in the meantime.

Conditioned air is not a nicety on a piano; it is the reason to store it here at all. With genuine New England winters that swing hard through freeze and thaw and summers thick with humidity, an instrument parked in an unconditioned bay suffers for it: a drying soundboard can split, the pin block can let go, the action can swell until keys stick, and the finish can craze. Our room stays even on heat and moisture right through the calendar, so a piano comes back sounding as it went in. We pad and wrap each one, leave a grand resting on its skid board, and write it into a log the moment it arrives on the floor. Reckon on roughly $60 to $130 monthly per piano, sized to the instrument.

The people who use it are caught between two dates: a closing that lands weeks apart from the purchase, a renovation still going when the piano should be home, an estate being wound down, a venue idle between seasons. We will keep an instrument for as little as a couple of weeks or as long as several months, then deliver it on whatever date you choose, always aboard our trucks and behind our crew, with no warehouse rental or outside carrier involved. Care to roll it into the broader job? Tuck the storage in with our local piano moving or our long-distance piano transport, and the whole thing runs on one crew and one bill. Once the piano leaves the room and lands in a lived space, it again wants two to four weeks to acclimate ahead of a tuning, which we set up on request.

Hand us two dates, when the piano has to be out of where it sits now and when its next room becomes available, and we will price the whole sequence, collection, the months in the room, and final delivery, under one job. Get a written quote and we will respond within one business hour.

What’s Included

• A purpose-built piano room kept even on heat and moisture through the calendar, not an ordinary bay
• Collection, holding, and delivery handled by one crew, with nobody else touching it between
• Each instrument padded and wrapped, a grand left resting on its skid board, before reaching the floor
• An entry written into the log the moment the piano arrives
• Terms that flex from a couple of weeks to several months, roughly $60 to $130 monthly per piano
• Delivery timed to whenever the next room finally opens up
• Up to $1M in cargo coverage across every day the instrument is held with us
• A tuner set up on request after the piano has had its two to four weeks to acclimate