The Miracle of Moving a Piano in New York City

[elleng]

March 6, 2020

How do you get a 800-pound grand piano up a narrow staircase in a Harlem townhouse?

“Little by little,” said Mark Ripatti, at left, the owner of Beethoven Pianos.>>>>>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/06/arts/music/ny-piano-moving.html?

[LakeArenal]

1. I can't get past the subscription page.

But a good mover is totally underrated.

[GeoWilliam750]

2. How very cool

[elleng]

3. YES!

I remember, as a kid, our Baby Grand came through our apartment window in Brooklyn, nothing like this adventure!

[BigmanPigman]

4. Pull it in through the window with a pulley.

That's what they do with narrow houses in Amsterdam. That's what that thing is sticking out of the building's front right under the roof...

"Not a decoration, the hook is there to enable residents to pull large, bulky objects up and into a window at the proper floor. Most homes in Amsterdam have narrow, steep, often winding staircases that make it difficult to bring large, bulky objects upstairs. Voila, the hook."

Or use a really long, steep ramp...

[elleng]

5. Happened like that in my Brooklyn apartment,

as I recall, but I was a kid at the time so don't remember the details.