Piano moving

Piano Mover Malaysia Piano movers for Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, uprights and grands, our own crew.

A piano is the heaviest thing most households will ever move, and the part that goes wrong is almost never the lifting. It is a doorway nobody measured, a staircase with a turn in it, or casters used to drag 250 kg across a tiled floor. We move uprights and grands across Peninsular Malaysia, and we walk the route first.

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2 to 4 menDepending on weight and route

UprightsSkidded, wrapped, strapped

GrandsTaken down and rebuilt

Move day

How We Move A Piano, Step By Step

A piano move is mostly planning. The carrying part is over in minutes. What takes the time, and what protects the instrument and your walls, is everything that happens before it leaves the wall.

The Route Is Walked

Before anything is touched we walk the whole route both ends, measure the tightest point and agree where the piano is going to stand. Surprises happen on moves where nobody did this.

Upright piano wrapped and strapped to a skid

Wrapped And Skidded

Lid locked, pedals protected, case blanketed and strapped. Uprights go onto a skid. Grands come off their legs and travel on their side on a board, which is the only correct way to move one.

Upright piano strapped to a dolly for the carry

Lifted, Not Dragged

Stairs are taken tread by tread with men above and below. Nothing is ever pivoted on a caster, because casters are for positioning a piano in a room, not for carrying its weight anywhere.

Upright piano positioned against an inside wall in a Malaysian home

Positioned And Settled

We put it where it should live rather than where it fits, which in Malaysia means an inside wall, out of direct sun and away from an air conditioner blowing straight at the case.

What decides the job

Stairs, Lifts And Access: What Changes A Move

Weight matters less than people expect. Access matters far more. These are what we ask about, and they are what you should photograph before asking anyone for a price.

The narrowest point on the route. Not the front door. The turn at the top of the stairs, or the gap between the lift door and the wall opposite.
Whether there is a service lift. A passenger lift with a mirror and a low ceiling often cannot take an upright standing up, and a service lift usually can.
Stair count and turns. Straight flights are far easier than a half landing with a 180 degree turn, whatever the number of steps.
The instrument itself. An upright travels upright. A grand comes apart, and putting it back together properly at the other end is part of the job, not an extra.

Piano movers loading an upright piano up a ramp

Send photographs, not measurements

A photograph of the staircase, the landing and the doorway tells us more in ten seconds than a list of numbers does. Add the make and model of the piano and we can tell you what the move needs.

Send Photos

Why us

Why Choose Our Piano Movers

There are cheaper ways to get a piano across town. There are not many where the people carrying it also rebuilt one that week and will be back to tune yours in a fortnight.

Our own crew, not a subcontractor

The men who arrive work for Sunwave Piano. General removal crews move pianos a few times a year. Ours do it constantly, and it shows in how they handle a turn on a half landing.

The route is surveyed before we quote

We ask for photographs of the tightest point and we walk it on the day before anything is touched. Almost every piano damaged in a move was damaged because nobody did this.

Grands come apart properly

A grand travels on its side on a board with the legs and lyre off, and goes back together at the other end as part of the job. A crew that lifts a grand on its legs is guessing.

How it works

How To Book A Piano Move

Four messages and you have a real answer. No site visit is needed to quote most moves, because photographs of the route tell us more than a walk-through would.

Send the piano and the route

Make and model if you have it, the floor at both ends, whether there is a service lift, and a photograph of the tightest point.

We quote against the access

The price comes from the stairs, the turns and the weight rather than the distance, so we quote once we can see them.

The crew walks it on the day

Route measured both ends and the final position agreed before the piano leaves the wall.

Tune it once it settles

Give the instrument a fortnight in the new room, then have it tuned. We will be the ones who come back.

Send The Route

Where we travel

Piano Moving Across Kuala Lumpur And Selangor

The van is based in Petaling Jaya, so the whole of the Klang Valley is a normal day's work. These are the areas we are in most weeks, and the list is not exhaustive.

Kuala Lumpur

BangsarMont KiaraDamansara HeightsCherasAmpangSetapakWangsa MajuKepongSentulBukit JalilSri PetalingDesa ParkCityOld Klang RoadSegambutTitiwangsa

Selangor

Petaling JayaBandar UtamaDamansara UtamaKota DamansaraAra DamansaraSubang JayaUSJShah AlamKlangPuchongSeri KembanganKajangBangiSemenyihCyberjayaSetia AlamSungai BulohRawangSelayang

Our piano shop is at Tropicana City Mall in Petaling Jaya, so most of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor is inside an hour of a van. We do travel further for the right job, and delivery on a piano bought from us is free anywhere in Peninsular Malaysia. Staircase carries are quoted separately, because the cost comes from the steps and the turns rather than the distance.

The rest of the workshop

Our Other Piano Services In Kuala Lumpur And Selangor

Why the height on the badge decides the move

Weight is what a staircase actually cares about, and weight comes from height. The four height classes and what each one weighs.

Read the guide

Piano Tuning Malaysia

Regular tuning for instruments that are close to pitch, and pitch raises for the ones that have sat unplayed for years and dropped well below A440.

Piano Tuning

Piano Repair Malaysia

Sticking keys, dead notes, broken hammer shanks, worn centre pins and pedals that no longer bite. Most of it is action work, and most of it is fixable.

Piano Repair

Piano Restoration Malaysia

Full rebuilds. Strings, dampers, hammers and action through to case refinishing. The same work we do on our own stock before it reaches the floor.

Piano Restoration

Piano Rental Malaysia

Rent a restored Japanese upright by the month, take one for a few weeks around an exam, or have a piano delivered and collected for a single event. Delivered, positioned and tuned by our own crew.

Piano Rental

Or start with a piano that has already had all of this done

Every Yamaha and Kawai we sell has been through the workshop twice before it reaches the floor. Free delivery, a bench, two tunings and a five-year warranty are in the price.

Used Piano Malaysia

Before you book

Piano Mover Malaysia: Common Questions

How many men does it take to move an upright piano?

Two to four, depending on the weight and the route. A 200 kg compact upright on a flat ground floor is a two-man job. A 260 kg full-height instrument going up a staircase with a turn in it is four, and we would rather send four than drop one.

Can you move a piano up a staircase when there is no service lift?

Usually, and it is the single most common question we get. What decides it is the width of the narrowest point, the turns, and whether the treads can take the concentrated load. Send photographs of the staircase and the landing and we will tell you honestly.

Will you move a piano that was bought somewhere else?

Yes. Most of the moves we do are instruments that came from somebody else, including pianos that have already been in a Malaysian home for thirty years.

Does a piano need tuning again after it has been moved?

Plan on it. The move itself does not knock a piano out of tune as much as people think, but the change in room, humidity and wall matters. Let it settle for a couple of weeks in the new spot, then tune it.

What do you need to know before quoting a move?

The make and model if you have it, the floor it is on now and the floor it is going to, whether there is a service lift, and photographs of the tightest point on the route. Those four answers cover almost every move.