If you live in the Boston area, the question of whether to move your piano or sell it with the house is an easier question. Many factors will go into this decision including the age of your piano, what kind it is (upright, baby grand, grand, electronic keyboard), how much you still use it and how much it is worth both financially and emotionally.

If you live outside the Boston area and not in a major metro area like New York or San Francisco the decision can be a great deal simpler if your piano is not of great financial or sentimental value. It costs more to move most pianos, unless they are electronic key boards, than they are worth. This is not the case if you have a great deal of sentimental value attached (it is the piano you learned on) or financial value (an antique Steinway for example).

If you are moving within the Boston area you should check the symphony for recommendations on piano movers in Boston, the internet and finally the Yellow Pages. Regular moving companies offer piano moving services like Mayflower, Atlas, or United Van Lines, and their services are fine if your piano does not have a great dollar value to it. If, however, you are concerned that your expensive upright, baby grand or grand may be damaged in transit you may want to contract with any of the piano movers in Boston.

There are many considerations when moving a piano. The first is the heavy weight of all pianos that are not electronic. Upright pianos weigh in excess of three hundred pounds. Baby Grand pianos range from around five hundred to over one thousand pounds. Concert Grand Pianos top out over one thousand pounds easily. In addition to the heavy weigh all pianos whether upright or grand are very bulky and can not be handled by just two people.

Our neighbor in Indiana was moving out of state and offered their upright from their basement to us if I could get it moved. We lived three houses away and when the movers came for their household possessions I offered their foreman one hundred twenty five dollars to move the piano down the street.

It had to go up five steps out of the basement at a forty five degree angle, through the back yard to the driveway, down the street and into our front door. The piano was a vintage 1910 upright that had seen better days, but still sounded very good even though it had not been tuned in the four years that the neighbors had lived there.

The piano was a Baldwin circa 1910 and I thought we had something that was worth selling when we decided to move. I called a local piano company and they appraised it at only three hundred dollars ($300).

At the time, upright pianos were not in demand and they already had several in stock. However, it would have cost me an extra two hundred dollars to move it so we took the appraisal and put it towards an electronic keyboard from Casio that we still have today. They even picked up the upright for no extra charge.

Here are a couple of piano movers in Boston that you might consider for your move. Piano Movers Incorporated, Allston Piano Moving Company and Deathwish Piano Movers are all excellent choices for piano movers in Boston. Deathwish Piano Movers have a picture on their home page that shows their moving staff under a rigged piano.

They also sell tee shirts, sweat shirts, tank tops and hats with the skull and company logo. I just like their name. The fact that they are used by many people in the Boston Music scene from contemporary to pop to concert musicians shows me that they are a good company to hire for piano movers in Boston.

Allston Piano Moving Company has been moving pianos since 1955 and is fully licensed and insured to move pianos throughout New England, Boston and New York. They have worked with the Boston Pops, Billy Joel, Tony Bennett, John Williams, Andre Previn and Harry Connick, Jr. If these best selling performers trust their livelihood to Allston Piano Moving Company then I would be proud to have them as my piano movers in Boston.

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