Seriously, how do piano movers/people move grand or baby grand pianos to places, anywhere? But especially to either small spaces, up stairs, or for example, an apartment/penthouse in a tall building in NYC? I know it happens. It seems very difficult. Explain plz haha
edit for punctuation because my keyboard is broken oh 2nd edit – yeah genuinely no pun intended with the word “keyboard”
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I moved pianos for years in NYC
Its called a sled.
The piano is stood on its side and a wooden frame, the sled, is assembled around it in two pieces . The frame is heavy duty and held together with straps and threaded clamps and giant carpet like material along the bottom of the sled. Part of the frame has handles that are extendable and adjustable.
No wheels. way to dangerous. Its safer to carry, or push.
On stairs, 2 guys on the front, lifting and pulling… 3 on the back going up, lifting, pushing and preventing it sliding back. Going down stairs, 3 in front, 2 in back. Managing turns on stairs is just math and muscle.
In all my experience, never once did we manually hoist a piano on a rope through a window.
An upright piano has a similar protocol only no sled, just lift and push.
I got pianos into remarkably small places back in the day
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