How does anyone move grand (or baby grand) pianos?

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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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Not a grand but my folks had an upright player piano from the 1920s in their basement. Of their 7 kids, only 1 took lessons (not me). They were empty nesters when I went over and asked if I could take it for my 3 kids to learn on. It was at risk of being wrecked by all of the other grandkids hammering away on it.

I found a screw, took it out and it revealed a few more. It was like a huge puzzle as I gradually found more and more screws and eventually it was in pieces on the floor. I rented a large truck, grabbed a friend and together we moved the dismantled thing to my house where I put everything back together. I only missed out one screw which held the bottom cover on. It has never had the player part installed but I have it.

Having it restored was described to me as if it was an antique car. 10% are pristine museum pieces, 10% are firewood and the middle 80% are all dependent on how much money you want to put into them. It would cost me $3500 to have it restored (parts and labour) but I could find one already done for a lot less apparently.

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