Uprights, baby grands and consoles — moved by people who've done it before
A piano is not a heavy dresser. It's a few hundred pounds of wood, iron and strung tension sitting on three legs or a pair of casters that were never meant to roll across a driveway. Get it wrong and you're looking at a cracked leg, a gouged doorframe, a snapped pedal lyre, or a soundboard that never sounds the same again. Get it wrong with people underneath it and the damage is worse than money.
Aggie Movers Company handles piano moves as their own job, with their own equipment and their own plan — not as an afterthought bolted onto a household move. Owner Wailan Watson runs the crews, and the piano work goes to movers who have carried these instruments before and know what a baby grand does when the weight shifts on a stair tread.
We move spinets and consoles out of College Station apartments, uprights out of two-story houses in Bryan, baby grands into homes in Navasota and Brenham, and church and school instruments around the Brazos Valley. If you're not sure what kind of piano you own, tell us the brand, rough height and how many people it took to get it in the room. That's usually enough for us to size the job.
How we get a piano out of one house and into another
Most piano damage happens in the first ten feet and the last ten feet. So that's where we slow down and spend the time.
- We look first. Before anything moves, we walk the route — doorway widths, stair turns, thresholds, porch steps, where the truck can actually park at both ends.
- Grands come apart properly. Legs, lyre and pedals are removed in the right order, wrapped separately, and labeled so reassembly isn't guesswork.
- Pad and strap, not hope. Heavy quilted padding over the case and corners, stretch wrap over the padding, and straps that hold the instrument to the board or skid instead of pinching the finish.
- Dollies and boards for the hard parts. Piano boards and proper dollies carry the weight so the instrument isn't being muscled through a hallway on its own feet.
- Floors and frames get covered too. Runners, door jamb protection and corner guards, because a piano move that dents your house isn't a clean move.
- Blocked and braced in the truck. The piano is secured upright against the wall of the trailer and tied off so it isn't riding free between Bryan and wherever it's headed.
One thing we'll always tell you straight: a piano needs tuning after it moves. Vibration and a change in humidity will pull it off pitch no matter how carefully it travels. Let it settle in the new room for a couple of weeks, then bring your tuner in.
Stairs, tight hallways and long hauls to Houston or Austin
Stairs are the question we get asked about most. Yes, we do them — down into finished basements, up to second-floor bonus rooms, and up and down the outdoor flights you find on older College Station rentals. What matters is that we know about them before the truck shows up, because a stair move changes the crew size and the gear we load. Tell us how many steps, whether there's a turn or a landing, and how wide the stairwell is.
We also move pianos well past the Brazos Valley. Students and families relocating out of Aggieland regularly need an instrument delivered to Houston, Dallas, Austin or San Antonio, and we handle those runs along with closer destinations like Caldwell, Madisonville, Hearne, Somerville, Rockdale and Snook. If you'd like to check your town, see all 24 service areas on our service area page.
Tell us what the piano is and what's between it and the truck. That's the whole conversation — everything else we can plan around.
Ready to move your piano?
Give us the make, the type, the pickup and drop-off addresses, and any stairs at either end, and we'll put together a plan and a price for your piano move. Call Aggie Movers Company at (979) 764-2928 and ask for a piano quote.