A piano is the heaviest fragile object most homes will ever contain: hundreds of pounds wrapped around parts that go out of tune if you look at them wrong. Moving one is a specialist trade with its own equipment and its own crew math, and that is exactly how we staff it. Whether it is a family upright or a concert grand, the method is the same and the shortcuts are zero.
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Piano boards, locking straps, padded skids, and crews who move pianos weekly, not as a side quest to a sofa.
Every piano horror story has the same plot: general movers, a dolly meant for boxes, a staircase, and physics. Royalty Moving & Storage moves pianos as a dedicated discipline. Uprights ride padded and strapped to piano boards. Grands come apart the way they were built to: lid, lyre, and legs removed and wrapped, the body rotated onto a skid board, everything labeled for clean reassembly at the destination. The instrument's value is only half the point; the other half is what five hundred falling pounds does to a staircase, a wall, or a person.
Seattle adds its own variables: steep streets, basement rec rooms, tight craftsman doorways, and tower elevators with their own rules. The crew scouts the path, measures the turns, and sizes the team for the actual carry, three movers minimum on most jobs, more when the stairs demand it. Player pianos, organs, and antique uprights with original casework get the same treatment, with extra hands where age demands gentleness.
Get a Free Seattle Quote →Six non-negotiables on every piano job we run. Each is a hard requirement on our jobs, and together they are why piano moving is its own line of work.
Purpose-built boards, locking straps, and padded skids: the equipment that exists because dollies fail.
Lid, lyre, pedals, and legs come off, wrap separately, and travel labeled, the only safe way a grand moves. Reassembly torque and alignment matter as much as the carry, and the crew treats them that way.
Stair carries get extra crew, planned footing, and a rhythm. Momentum is the enemy of five hundred pounds.
Turns and clearances measured before lifting, because a piano wedged in a craftsman hallway has no good endings. When a doorway truly cannot pass, we say so before lifting, with the alternatives priced honestly.
Pianos hate moisture swings. Wrapped transport and sensible timing protect the soundboard through Seattle weather.
Reassembled, positioned to your spot, and left ready for the tuner once the piano has settled into the new room.
Four careful steps between two rooms. Most piano moves complete inside a morning once the path is planned.
Make, type, and photos, plus both paths: stairs, turns, and elevator details.
One written price for the piano and the path, crew sized to the carry.
Disassembly where needed, full wrapping, boards and straps rigged.
The planned carry, careful transport, and rebuild at the new spot.
Specialist handling extends to these neighboring services. When the piano is part of a bigger picture, these services share its schedule and its coordinator.
Art, antiques, and high-value pieces with custom crating.
Heavy and awkward single pieces moved with proper equipment.
The full household move surrounding the piano.
Pianos braced and prepared for interstate transport.
Secure, wrapped holding between homes or during remodels.
Property-matched home moving across the metro.
Piano crews travel the entire metro, from Seattle's hills to Eastside great rooms and Snohomish County basements. The crew has carried instruments out of nearly every housing type this region builds, including the ones with regrettable staircases.
The piano will find out which one you hired. The price difference between the two columns is smaller than one repair bill from the left column.
Specialist standards, flat priced.
Tell us the make, the type, and the two paths. The price comes back flat and the crew comes equipped.
Uprights typically price in the low hundreds; grands and difficult paths, basements, long stair runs, tight turns, run higher. The quote is flat and written, set by the piano and the path, and it does not change on the day. The flat format matters here especially, because piano jobs are exactly where hourly billing turns a staircase into a profit center.
