Thursday, June 12, 2014

What it takes to move a Steinway baby grand piano into an East Village townhouse



Today at 410 E. Ninth St., movers were on the scene between Avenue A and First Avenue to get a Steinway baby grand piano off the truck and into the condo duplex ...



This maneuver required a crane ...



... and the removal of the window frame on the third floor...







All told, one of the crew members told EVG reader dbs, who took these photos, that the whole job likely cost some $20,000. A small price for some beautiful music?

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pity the downstairs neighbors.

rick said...

don't worry, Anon, nobody's gonna play it, it's likely just for show...

Anonymous said...

I would much rather be the downstairs neighbor of a pianist than of people who play top-40!

Unless the pianist is devoted to playing top-40, that is.

- East Villager

Ken from Ken's Kitchen said...

What's a Steinway weigh?

Makeout said...

Moving. If it doesn't fit- force it!

Anonymous said...

Hope they have a very long lease..........

THE NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N. said...

I'd take beautiful piano music over a Dude/Bro/OMG rager any day.

i.rene said...

$20k isn't much considering how much the place likely cost.

http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/2129452

Crazy Eddie said...

A lot more efficient than the Laurel and Hardy method. But not as funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlUqRhME0Eg

Anonymous said...

Well, that is interesting, since I used to live on the 2nd floor of that building for many years. I lived there from 1996-2010. The three windows in the front seen in the last photo below the moving container were the windows of my residence.

Anonymous said...

I have an 88-key USB MIDI keyboard, plug it into my computer. It cost a couple hundred bucks. It's no Steinway but to a NYC apartment dweller it is a godsend. I can play my little heart out any old time I want. If you haven't played around with it you'd be surprised at how lifelike modern Virtual Studio Technology can sound.

Anonymous said...

800-1000lbs, most likely.

EV Grieve said...

My Kegerator weighs 750 pounds full.

Anonymous said...

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