Bears Moving Co. is a licensed Georgia piano moving company (GA HHG #9320) moving standard upright and spinet pianos throughout Marietta — Marietta Square historic homes, Whitlock Avenue residences, East Cobb subdivisions, and Church sanctuaries off Roswell Street. That includes consoles, studio uprights, player pianos, and digital pianos. We do not move baby grand or grand pianos.
Four-wheel piano dollies, double-blanket wrapping, full floor protection, and cargo and liability insurance on every instrument.
Piano moving in Marietta is mostly a historic-home problem — Marietta Square historic homes, Whitlock Avenue residences, East Cobb subdivisions, and Church sanctuaries off Roswell Street. These houses were built before anyone owned a 600-pound console: the front steps are tall, the doorways are narrow, and the floors underneath are original.
The historic homes around Marietta Square have tall front stairs and original doorways, and the Square itself limits truck staging — we stage on the side street and walk the route before we touch the instrument.
We protect the route first, then the instrument, then move it — in that order, because the damage that costs the most on an old-home piano move is usually to the house, not the piano.
Marietta runs the full range of uprights: antique uprights in the Square-area homes, consoles and studio uprights in East Cobb, and church uprights off Roswell Street. The list runs from spinets and consoles through studio, full-size, and antique uprights to player pianos, digital pianos, and stage keyboards. Whatever it is, it stays upright on a four-wheel piano dolly, double-wrapped and strapped, with corner protection through every incline.
We move standard upright and spinet pianos — including consoles, studio uprights, player pianos, and digital pianos. We do not move baby grand or grand pianos. If you have a baby grand or grand, we will tell you that straight away and point you toward a specialty grand mover rather than take a job we are not equipped for.
A Marietta piano job is scoped before it's scheduled — instrument type and age, doorway widths, stair-rise at both addresses, and parking. That's how the right crew size and equipment arrive the first time instead of being figured out on the porch.
Marietta flat rates split between East Cobb's level subdivision routes and the Square's historic homes, where a tall antique upright and a full front stair run price higher. A Marietta piano move is priced as a single flat number, never by the hour. No hourly minimum, no clock, no adjustment at the end — you approve the price before move day and it holds even if the job runs long.
Three factors build that number.
Start with the piano. Weight and height do most of the work here: a console is straightforward, a full-size upright needs a larger crew, and a player or antique upright — often 900-plus pounds with fragile veneer — needs the largest. Digital instruments are the least expensive to move. Age matters too, because old casework tolerates less.
Factor two is stairs and access at both ends of the Marietta move. We price the number of stair flights and the rise of each one, turns and landings the instrument has to pivot through, doorway and hallway widths, thresholds and porch steps, elevator size and reservation windows, and how far the piano has to travel from the door to the truck.
A ground-floor, level-entry pickup with a driveway at the door is our lowest-access price; a walk-up with a tight turn at the top is our highest.
Third is distance. A piano crossing Marietta costs less to move than one crossing the metro, and inside our standard service zone that mileage is the only distance charge — there's no separate travel surcharge layered on.
Truck, fuel, blankets, shrink wrap, skid board, four-wheel piano dollies, floor runners, door-jamb protection, and full insurance are all inside the flat rate. There is no per-stair fee, no per-flight fee, no long-carry fee, and no elevator fee. If you are also booking a household move, the piano rides with the same crew on the same day as its own flat piano fee on top of the household move.
Insurance is not an add-on: every Marietta instrument moves under our cargo and liability coverage (GA HHG #9320). Buildings and HOAs get a Certificate of Insurance within a day, and for vintage or high-value uprights we walk through Full Value Protection before anything is signed.
A piano that changes buildings goes out of tune — that's physics, not handling. Let it sit two to four weeks in the new Marietta room before the tuner comes. We leave it positioned, leveled, and rolling correctly so it's usable in the meantime.
We move pianos throughout Marietta Square, Kennesaw Mountain, East Cobb, and West Cobb and the rest of Cobb County, with no travel surcharge inside our standard service zone.
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Marietta flat rates split between East Cobb's level subdivision routes and the Square's historic homes, where a tall antique upright and a full front stair run price higher. Every Marietta piano move is quoted as a flat rate rather than by the hour, based on the piano type and size, the stairs and access at both ends, and the mileage between addresses.
Truck, fuel, equipment, floor protection, and insurance are included in that price, and there are no per-stair or long-carry fees.
Stairs are routine on Marietta upright and spinet moves. The historic homes around Marietta Square have tall front stairs and original doorways, and the Square itself limits truck staging — we stage on the side street and walk the route before we touch the instrument.
We match the crew to the weight and the number of flights, and heavy antique uprights or long stair runs get extra hands plus stair-climbing gear.
No — our piano service covers uprights and spinets: consoles, studio and full-size uprights, antique and player pianos, and digital pianos. Grands of any size need leg-and-lyre disassembly and skid-board work we are not equipped for, so Marietta grand moves go to a specialty crew instead.
Yes. Every Marietta piano move is covered by our full cargo and liability insurance under GA HHG #9320, and we can issue a Certificate of Insurance naming your building or HOA within 24 hours. Full Value Protection is available for high-value instruments.
You don't need a full move. Plenty of Marietta bookings are one instrument and nothing else, whether it's crossing the metro or crossing a hallway. When a piano rides along with a household move, the same crew handles it on the same day for its own flat piano fee.