Successfully Moving a Grand Piano
I’ve recently moved myself, my cat and my grand piano from Devon all the way up to the city of London. My baby grand is my prized possession so I was enormously concerned to see it moved successfully.
I’ve grown up in the West Country and never thought I’d ever leave. But I’d been offered a new position in London that was really too good to miss so I made the momentous decision to make the move from the countryside to the big bad city.
I luckily found a really spacious and airy ground floor flat in Islington with loads of room for me and my baby grand. I’d checked to make certain that the landlord and the other tenants of the building were happy that a musician with a grand piano was moving into their building. It turned out that there were already several working musicians in residence including a saxophonist and a concert violinist.
It was really important to ensure that the landlord was happy for me and my piano to move in as I needed to have the front windows removed from the flat to enable us to get the grand piano inside. To carry out the delicate procedure of dismantling and transporting my prized possession I employed a specialist London removals firm who had not only moved plenty of people and businesses all over London, but they assured me that they had successfully moved plenty of grand pianos.
To prepare the piano for moving we had to remove the lid, which was carefully wrapped and tied in protective blankets. We tippe the piano onto its flat side, lifted it onto a skid board and removed its legs. I was surprised at how quickly my piano was whisked out of my west country house and into the back of the removal truck ready for the road to London.
When we got to the far end we had a short wait as the window guys had yet to arrive. Since there was no way that we’d get the piano into my new flat via the main building entrance so we had to wait for the window men. The window guys soon turned up and very swiftly and professionally they had the main bay window removed in no time at all.
The removal men had my grand piano craned in through the window in no time at all. In fact I was busy putting it back together while they carried in the remainder of my boxed up possessions. By tea-time I was full ensconced in my new flat bashing out tunes on my old piano.
Moving home can be an enormously stressful experience, especially when you have some very special requirements. It was really important that my prized baby grand was moved without damage and this was successfully achieved by a very professional London removals company. Now all I need to do is re-teach my cat to use a kitty litter.
