One flat rate, one Piano Moving World crew — nothing gets added once the truck is loaded and rollingLock in your Lyons piano move online in under five minutesStarted by a former piano technician, still run out of Lyons, IL-licensed and insured on every piano we carry
Four Midwest piano lanes, run start to finish by our own trucks and crew.
ScheduleYour Piano’s Move
Describe the piano to Renata Kovac — upright, baby grand, grand, or concert grand — and she quotes a flat rate on that call, in writing, before you hang up
Boards, skids, and ramps get matched to that exact piano and loaded before the truck leaves our Lyons yard
Desmond Okafor or Marco Vitale shows up at the hour you booked to rig it out — no guessing, no general moving crew improvising
4.9 from 24+ Lyons reviews
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Piano Moving World runs four long-distance piano lanes out of Lyons, and every one of them is covered by our own trucks and crew — never handed off to another company partway through. Crew chief Marco Vitale runs these long hauls, and the same team that loads the piano in Lyons drives it and unloads it at the other end, boarded and padded for real highway miles, not just a short trip across town. Every route is quoted flat before the truck leaves, based on piano type and distance.
Lyons to Milwaukee — About 92 miles and under two hours on the road, a lane we run often enough to quote same-day.
Lyons to Indianapolis — 185 miles, roughly a three-hour drive, padded and boarded the same as any local move.
Lyons to St. Louis — Just under 300 miles, the longest of our four lanes, still handled door to door by one crew.
Lyons to Detroit — 280 miles across the state line, with the same crew loading in Lyons and unloading in Detroit.
Moving somewhere not on this list? Call (888) 278-9005 — we quote plenty of other Midwest piano moves, or start back at the Piano Moving World home page.
Quick Answers Before You Book
Do you hand the piano off to another company for long-distance moves?▾
No. The same crew and truck that load the piano in Lyons drive it and unload it at the destination — there's no handoff.
How is a long-distance piano move priced?▾
Flat, by piano type and route, quoted before the truck leaves Lyons. The ranges above are typical; Renata confirms the exact number on your written quote.
What if my destination isn't one of these four routes?▾
These are our most common lanes, but we run other Midwest routes too — call the office and we'll tell you straight if it's a fit.
Desmond Okafor and Marco Vitale run crews made up of full-time Piano Moving World employees — nobody shows up to a piano job having been booked off a gig app that morning.
We Don’t Touch a Review Before It Publishes
Every rating a Lyons household leaves us goes up untouched, good week or bad, because editing them would defeat the point of having them.
Eli Sorensen looks over every piano himself — over the phone, on a video call, or from photos you text in — before Renata Kovac puts a flat number on the written quote, priced to that exact upright, grand, or concert grand, not a generic moving estimate.
Every Rigger Draws a Piano Moving World Paycheck
Desmond Okafor trains every new hire on the boards and skids himself, and all six of our full-time riggers stay on payroll year-round — nobody’s a day-labor hire meeting your piano for the first time on move day.
The Paperwork Is Ready Before You Ask For It
Renata Kovac keeps our Illinois ICC household goods permit current for jobs that start and end in-state, plus the federal US DOT/MC authority that covers any run crossing into Wisconsin, Indiana, or Missouri — ask for the certificate of insurance and the $1M cargo figure is already printed on it.
Built Around a Cook County Calendar, Not a Generic One
When a spring flood watch rises along the Des Plaines River, we move a piano out before the water does, and once a lake-effect squall backs up the Stevenson Expressway, we build extra time into the truck’s route instead of risking a late arrival.
The Hard Parts Are Priced Before We Show Up
A turned 1920s bungalow staircase off Center Avenue, a low basement stairwell in Berwyn or Cicero, the extra miles out to La Grange or Summit — all of it gets built into the flat rate before you sign, so the invoice doesn’t grow once the truck is in your driveway.
Every One of Our 5 Trucks Rolls Out Rigged for Pianos
Boards, skids, ramps, and moving blankets sized for an upright through a full concert grand ride on every truck before it leaves the yard, so nobody’s improvising with a mattress dolly borrowed from a general move.
Book Before the Spring Recital Season Fills the Calendar
Lock in your Lyons move date online now — Cook County’s spring recital and graduation weeks fill first every year, right alongside the church and school moves Eli prices at a discount.
Rescheduling Never Adds a Dollar
A freeze warning moves your basement move-out date, or a venue’s load-in time shifts a week — either way, moving your date ahead of time doesn’t change the flat rate Renata already wrote down.
Real Piano-Type Pricing, Not a Generic Moving Calculator
Every figure traces back to an actual piano Eli or Renata has priced by type around Lyons before, with church, school, and repeat-customer discounts already folded into the total before you sign.
What Our Customers Say
Read them as they were posted — Cook County piano owners talking about their own move day, no editing on our end.
★★★★★
Desmond walked our turned staircase twice before the piano ever left the wall — every corner had a plan, and the baby grand came down without a mark on the newel post.
Harriet VossLa Grange · Google
★★★★★
Booked the Milwaukee run on a Tuesday and Marco’s crew had our grand loaded, driven, and set back on its legs by Thursday afternoon — same crew the whole way, no handoff.
Owen BradacRiverside · Google
★★★★★
Fourth-floor walk-up, no elevator, and they still had the upright wrapped and down the stairwell in under an hour without touching a wall.
Selena MarchettiBrookfield · Google
★★★★★
They crated the piano the week before a January move so the cold never touched it — humidity padding, corner guards, all of it done before the truck ever showed up.
Trent IwuchukwuBerwyn · Google
★★★★★
Our venue only had a two-hour load-in window before the ceremony and the piano was tuned-ready on stage with twenty minutes to spare.
