An In-Depth Look At Cost Of Moving Piano

Upright pianos are assets especially to the musically inclined and can weigh as much as 800 pounds; some grand pianos can exceed 1,000 pounds. It is worth the investment on a piano to hire a professional piano mover to transport it safely. Maintenance and handling is key to the durability of any instrument. This must not be compromised by entrusting your piano to just anybody to ferry or having a trial and error DIY moving team attempt to move it. Apart from the fact that the grand piano is too expensive and delicate to be used as an instrument for trial and error, your DIY moving team could be injured in the process as it is such a difficult job. To avoid all of these possible outcomes, a specialized mover should be hired.

Pricing around piano movers:

It is cheaper to pay extra for reputation and quality than to pay less and get disappointment or loss in return. As ironical as this may sound it is true in practical. When you go shopping for piano movers, you gets all sorts of cheap price quotation as well as quotations with prices that are a little higher than the others. It is, however, advisable not to  make decisions on choice of piano mover based on price alone, but toil the path of caution and inquiry, the revelation could be startling. In most cases information from inquiry will reveal that reputable piano moving brands with a little higher price quotation have an history of few claims and where there is a claim, there is always a service. On the other hand, many of the cheap movers who claim to be insured usually abscond when things go wrong. From this information it is clear that price quotation could be a reflection of quality of service. Our candid advice to buyers is to go for reputation as against price  

Breakdown of the Cost Involved With Piano moving

Moving your piano instrument might be a bitter pill you have to swallow after the excitement of buying one. Although you might find it difficult to accept that the cost of transporting a piano could be this high, the objective here is to prepare the minds of those  with the intention of getting one on budgeting for the piano moving company

Cost Breakdown

• An upright piano and a baby grand piano cost between $125 to $250 and as much as $600 respectively for a local move.
• Where a piano would be ferried over a long distance, you could end up paying between $700 and as high as $2000.
• The piano is very delicate and for extreme care a stair case carrier is used for carrying it up or down, companies charge varying rates for this value – added service, some companies bill per stair at a rate of between $2 and $12 per stair. Some companies charge a flat rate of $100 per flight of stairs.
• The bill for insurance is a function of the weight of the piano. The cost of insurance per pound is about $4. The buyer can in addition to insurance bill insure the value of the piano, the bill could increase to about $10 per $1000 of the piano’s value
• Discount of between 5 and 10 % of the total cost of the move is usually given to Senior citizens.