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Slide 1: Professional movers are the right choice for piano moving For most piano owners, their piano is one of the most prized possessions and getting it moved without damage is a prime concern. If you contemplate moving your piano, the right course of action would be to hire the services of professional piano movers and not attempt to do things on your own. Pianos are quite heavy and moving the piano - without sustaining personal injuries and/ or damage to the piano – calls for experience and certain special equipments. This is the reason why household movers do not include the piano in their general household shifting quotes. If you want to move the piano around a room or from one room to another – then it can be accomplished by a group of friends after obtaining some important tips from piano moving specialists. But on no account should you try to move a piano on your own from one site to another as the risks involved are far too many. If you want to protect yourself from injury liabilities and reduce the odds of your piano or home being damaged, then you should not mind the expenses of hiring a professional piano mover. It may be interesting to know that a full-size upright piano can weigh upwards of seven hundred pounds. A grand piano can be still heavier. Apart from the weight factor, pianos are also quite uncouth in terms of balance, weight distribution and inertia. The professional piano movers are fully aware how to cope with weight and asymmetric shape of the pianos and will use proper positioning and stances to move the pianos with ease. Further the professional piano movers will have the specialist equipments, to handle the move. The piano to be moved is placed on a special skid called the piano board. Quilted pads are generally used to cover the piano and then it is strapped to the board. This arrangement will protect the piano from any accidental damages. When the piano is moved along an even surface, it is placed on a small platform with wheels called a dolly and then rolled. Once the stairway is reached, the dolly is removed and the piano is slid slowly in a controlled manner. Ramps are used for moving and lifting the piano onto the trucks. Like all other service providers, there are piano movers that are better equipped and more experienced than others. The onus is on you to decide on the right piano mover best suited to your needs. While seeking a quote, you must provide the moving companies some basic information such as whether the piano is upright or grand, its size and the flight of stairs at the original and end- destinations. You are also obliged to
Slide 2: tell the movers beforehand, the number of steps in the stairway and whether the staircase is straight, spiraled or curved. The one obvious question is how to identify the right piano mover. Almost all the professional piano moving companies use more or less similar process for moving a piano. These professional piano movers know the right techniques of packing and carrying the piano with zero damage to the piano. You can contact the local piano dealers, piano technicians and other people working in the piano making industry. You can also search the Internet to know about the piano movers in your area. Jack Nicklaus is a SEO copywriter for Spartan Moving Systems. He has written many articles in various topics like San Francisco moving, San jose movers. for more information visit : San jose moving.