An upright piano is $375 to have picked up. A baby grand is $400, a grand is $450, a digital piano or keyboard is $119. One flat price, set when you book, with nothing added at the curb. Book by 2 PM and a hauler comes the same day where same-day pickup is running, seven days a week. You do not rent a truck, borrow a dolly, or line up help.
Your piano probably still plays. That was never the problem.
Most pianos that get hauled away still make sound. Out of tune, a sticky key, a dull finish, but they play. People assume theirs got rejected because it is broken. It did not.
Free listings fail for a mechanical reason. To take a free piano, someone has to bring a truck they can roll it into, a piano dolly, a ramp, straps, and three or four people who are free on the same Saturday. That is a real day of work for an instrument that is worth close to nothing.
So they say yes on Tuesday and stop answering on Friday. You get two no-shows and one person who asks whether it is a Steinway and then disappears. Nothing about that was a verdict on your piano. They just ran the numbers on the moving part and quit.
Which means the thing standing between you and an empty wall is not money and not condition. It is 400 to 600 pounds and a vehicle you do not own.
What doing it yourself actually costs
Dollars are the small part. Here is the real list.
You need a truck with a ramp, rented for a day, plus fuel and the trip back to return it. You need a piano dolly and straps, which is a separate rental at most places. You need three or four people, and they have to be the same three or four people on both ends of the trip.
Then you do it twice. Once to load it, once to unload it. The second lift is the one people forget, and it happens in a gravel yard after an hour of driving.
Then the transfer station. They charge by weight, they close early, and on a Saturday you wait in line behind contractors.
That whole list is what the $375 deletes. A hauler shows up with the truck and the equipment, loads the piano, and takes it to disposal. You do not drive anywhere, you do not rent anything, and you do not have to find a second person.
Where the piano has to be
Here is the honest limit. Nobody enters your home on any Dropcurb booking, ever. The piano has to be outside when the hauler gets there.
Outside is not only the street. The driveway, beside the garage, inside an open garage, the porch, the side of the house. Anywhere reachable from the driveway works, so it never has to sit out front where the neighbors or the building manager can see it.
If your piano is on the ground floor with a door and a clear path, book it. Getting it through that one door is the only part of this job that belongs to you, and the price you saw online is the price that gets charged.
If it is in a basement, up a flight of stairs, around a turn at a landing, or you simply cannot move it safely, do not book us. Call piano movers. They own the boards, the straps and the insurance, and taking a piano out of a house is the entire job they do. Ask them what they charge to haul it off completely. If they only move things and will not take it away, have them set it in your driveway, and we take it from there.
| What you have | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Upright piano | $375 |
| Baby grand piano | $400 |
| Grand piano | $450 |
| Digital piano or keyboard | $119 |
The piano goes away this week. An upright is $375, and that is the whole price. Nothing gets added at the curb and it cannot change after you book. The piano sets the price for the pickup, so anything else you send with it drops to the add on rate. The couch from the same room is $28, not $99. No truck to rent. No dolly to borrow. No second person to line up. Book by 2 PM and a hauler comes today where same-day pickup is running, seven days a week, anywhere in the 50 states. You get a text with the ETA and photos once it is gone, and you do not need to be home.
See my price for an upright pianoWhy one company says $200 and the next says $1,500
Almost every removal company prices after somebody is standing in your living room. The staircase, the doorway width, the turn at the landing, the walk to the truck. Each one gets added while you watch, and you find out the number with a crew already parked outside and a morning of work burned.
That is not dishonest. It is just a pricing model that hands you the figure at the worst possible moment.
"I was concerned this wasn't a legit company, but they absolutely are… I was quoted $1500 by another company." — Melissa Mader, Google review
Curbside pricing has nothing to walk through, so the number is settled before anyone drives anywhere. An upright is $375 in a ranch house and $375 in a fourth floor walk-up, because in both cases the piano is outside when the truck arrives.
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Is an old piano worth anything?
Usually not, and learning that this week instead of in October saves you the whole waiting game.
The plate inside is cast iron, roughly 150 to 200 pounds of it. At recent scrap prices that is worth tens of dollars, and only after somebody dismantles the entire instrument to get at it. The case, hammers, felt and keys are worth nothing on the scrap side.
Resale is real but narrow. A tuned, name brand upright built after about 1980 finds a buyer. Spinets and consoles from the 1950s through the 1970s mostly do not.
One thing worth checking first. Pianos built before about 1970 can have real ivory key tops. Ivory sales are restricted under federal law and several states go further, so if yours has ivory, that is a call to an appraiser rather than a free listing.
What about donation or city bulk pickup
Both are worth one phone call, and both fail the same way, so make the call before you plan a week around either one.
Churches, schools, community theaters and some furniture banks still take working pianos. Policies are set location by location, they change without notice, and a piano is the single hardest donation to place because the receiving side has to move it too. Confirm with the specific location, not a national page.
City bulk pickup is free or close to it where it exists. Pianos are commonly excluded by weight, and where they are accepted the wait runs weeks. Your city's bulk item list will say, and the rules differ from one city to the next. That one call is the difference between a piano gone this week and a piano still in the front room at Thanksgiving.