Why do pianos defeat so many movers?
An upright piano is a tall wooden cabinet packed with a cast iron frame and hundreds of strings under tension. It is heavy, it is top-heavy, and it has no good place to grip. The casters were never meant for a staircase, the lid and keyboard can't take a knock, and a bad angle at a landing can put the whole thing through a wall.
Location makes it worse. Pianos end up in finished basements, on second-floor landings and in front rooms with a step down, and a Jersey City walk-up leaves almost no room to turn. Plenty of families spend years working up the nerve to call, then find out how many movers will not touch an old upright at all.
How does the crew move something that heavy?
Send a photo of the piano and the stairs or doorway it has to get through, or describe the model. The estimate comes from that, and the final price is confirmed on site. The crew handles every bit of the lifting, loading and hauling, and you don't need to be there once access and scope are confirmed.
A customer in Jersey City, Riza Sarmiento-Lao, wrote: "I had a heavy upright piano on the second floor that four other crews could not remove. Edison's crew came through, stayed within budget, and got it done." Staying within budget is the part worth noticing, since the final price is confirmed on site before the lifting starts.
Which pianos, what price and where do they go?
Piano removal starts at $485. The crew takes spinets, consoles, studio uprights and full uprights. It does not take a baby grand, and it does not take grand pianos of any size, so if yours has a curved case and a lifting lid, call before you plan anything around it. Labor, loading, hauling, disposal fees and sweep-up are included, with no hourly rate.
A piano in playable shape is donated whenever possible, and the rest is recycled or disposed of properly. Clear the room around it and measure the narrowest turn if you can, because a stair rail or a tight landing is the thing that changes the plan. The crew will not take wet paint, chemicals, fuel, pesticides, asbestos, medical waste or unknown liquids.
