I'm 72 and just put my very heavy player piano on a dolly that is 8" high. Took be about 20 minutes and the pumping was relatively easy. You are a genius !!!!!!

I've moved pianos for 40 years....wish I had seen this video before I started! Wow. great idea

Genius! Such a clever and simple solution, thanks!

We just used this method to lift and move an extremely heavy upright player piano so that we could install new flooring. We used an air compressor since we didn't have a girl with a bicycle pump. :-) It worked perfectly. There is no reason to risk injury lifting such a monstrous piano. Thanks so much for the idea!

This is brilliant! And I love that the daughter is learning right alongside with daddy. She is going to be a great engineer herself oneday, I bet.

OMG....this really works. My two sons got the piano up on the dollies and worked finished the flooring and left. Here we are with 2 rented piano dollies. A 70 year old and her younger sister flattened the exercise ball pumped it up and now the dollies go back to the rental store, The only recommendation I would give, be sure to guide the Piano down., it does wabt to scoot. Thank you for the wonderful working idea.

Genius!!! Have to move a piano this weekend and needed suggestions. Last time I did this was 15 years ago and my back was in much better shape....thanks!!

Super help! Moved my piano this past weekend following your idea, thank you!

4 more pumps Clara and exactly 4 pumps. Your sense of things is really good and a genius at work. :)

This is BRILLIANT! I will be moving an antique upright in a couple months so found this. WAY easier and NO strain on your backs!

Good work! Obviously if you were strong enough/had enough 'man' power there might be quicker ways. But he's just demonstrated that you don't simply need brute strength, and as someone else mentioned it was a clever and fun thing to do. Teaching his daughter to be resourceful is arguably more valuable than taking the quickest option relying on strength alone, when you may not have strength.

This was brilliant. Just moved an upright piano over plush carpet after lifting with a basketball and sliding a piece of hardwood under the wheels so it could roll. Perfect demonstration of a safe lifting technique. The piano was pushed into a corner so no way to lift with people even if I had a few spare strong ones around . Could just push a small basketball under.

NEVER NEVER NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD WORK! FANTASTIC! BRILLIANT!

Awesome video! Thanks a lot for posting. I just followed your technique and moved our piano with ease! It's amazing how strong basketballs are!

Just used your method to lift a 500 lbs Yamaha piano! You are brilliant!

This is a terrific video thanks so much, I have a large upright piano that has a broken caster I bought a new set of casters to replace these 85-year-old original cast iron casters 8yrs past my buddy and I could not hold up the piano long enough to remove and replace them? Then I came across your video and Voila it was a piece of cake finally off my honey-do list! Thank you for your ingenious problem-solving brain!

THIS IS GENIUS!!! Just purchased a Kawai US50. A 700lbs piano and needed to level it properly. No way I was lifting that... the Basketball with my air compressor and a 2x4 worked incredibly. Would have never thought of using a basketball to do this... Kudos for this... thanks for posting..

This technique really works. We used it with some modifications. First with no basketball in our home, we used a deflated large Pilates balance ball which we pumped up using a pump that I think was originally for an air mattress. It took two of us because one person had to pump up the ball and the other had to keep the ball from escaping out from under the piano. Second we had no moving dolly so we used furniture floor sliders with one under each leg of the piano. (advantage was that we only had to lift piano about 1 and 1/2 inches) The legs of the piano have wheels on them but piano is from 1913 so they were little help in terms of moving the piano. Also the short bit they did move it left wheel indentations in our floor. We used rubber furniture cups between the wheels and sliders so piano wouldn’t just roll off the sliders when we tried to move it. We only moved the piano from one room into another but it was across wood floors and moving it left no marks or indentations. Anyways, this video totally saved us! Thanks for sharing!

This is ingenious! We just got my piano onto a dolly for moving without lifting. Thank you for sharing. We did use two basketballs and a small compressor.

You are such a genius! Just tried and worked like a charm.

Wow, this looks like an ingenious method for my use case, sliding caster cups under our upright in a confined space where it's otherwise tough to get any leverage. Thanks so much for sharing!

Thank you. That is such a safe and brilliant technique.

Wow great idea! Thanks for sharing.. Your helper is precious.

Great idea, nice that your daughter was there to learn too.

of course , your idea been brilliant and appreciated ...

That's GENIUS!👍👍👍

Great idea! I wouldn't have thought of that in a million years. And your daughter is charming.

I was thinking where to get a mini car jack. Your solution is genius! Thank you, sir!

Love the team work!

Adam - this is brilliant! - thanks so much

That's pretty smart! Thanks for the lesson...

This is very clever, nice job !

This is fantastic ! Well done and thanks for sharing,,,

Genius!! Mover wanted to charge me $700 to move an old upright... I was able to use the basketball method and move it myself with my wife.. Thank you!!

Worked great! Thanks for sharing this super awesome idea.

Very clever! Awesome video.

Really cool!!! Thank you for sharing that inexpensive, easy and successful technique to move a piano around that weight area, can apply to other heavy things around the same weight, which is pretty heavy!

I have to move a piano next week. I will use this method! Thank you much!

Thanks so much for sharing this! I'm trying to move a piano all by myself so I really appreciate this technique!

Brilliant! Thank you!

Smart Dad, neat solution. Thanks!

Absolutely genial! I'll try it tonight with the new piano, that needs casters with felts installed

Ingenious idea! I have a bike pump. I was looking at all kinds of jacks, etc. But a Basketball will do the trick. Thank you!

I thought that I was finished watching videos, but this is genius! :D Everyone else lifts the piano until it is balanced on the corner and Stumpf Moving & Storage propped one corner against the tailgate of a pickup, and lifted the other end and shoved it into the truck!

Wow this is amazing. I’m needing to replace the front legs to the piano. This is genius!!

Resourceful! Thanks! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Outstanding!

Very clever. I love creative thinking people!

You are a Genius

Worked brilliantly for lifting large upright piano onto coasters. Similar situation, old football (soccer) and 8 year old girl on the pump.

Its so nice to see that your little girl helping you doing the moving - and its a beautiful video to view daughter helping father - nice sight ! My best wishes to you and your daughter - Merry X'mas in advance !!!

Brilliant!!!

clever man you are... thank you for sharing sir!

You're a genious. Cheers from Argentina

My man!!! I'm a patient care tech and i resonate with this so much! hahaha

What beautiful floors!

amazing solution

Brilliant! I'm trying to figure out a way that my son & I can move a piano from one room to another in my home. This will work for our situation perfectly. Thanks for sharing your great idea.😍

You don't want to use the dollies with the hard black wheels on hardwood floors. The nylon 4" gray wheels are softer and won't mark the wood.

Genius!!😃

great idea! thanks!

Thank you for this! I'm a single mom with a similar piano that just needs moving to the other side of the room, and I'm so happy to have found this video!

very smart! Thanks for sharing :)

You genius!!!

True genius!

I did the same thing but used bricks while pumping, stabilizing, placing, and repeating. I cannot believe how easy it was. And the piano dolly was easy to push the 465-pound piano to the end of the house into a bedroom! My wood floors are still in one piece.

Genius!

awesome idea. thanks!

Genius

Shut The Front Door!!! This is Awesome!!! Thank you!

dude's a genius!

Smart, simple idea. I often make things overly complicated.

How many people do you know who decided to just power through a heavy lift and ended up with a bad back for life? This guy knows what it means to work smart. If you don't have a kid handy, an air compressor might be a good idea.

For anyone wondering how to get the block out from underneath, do the same tbing on the side with a block under it and pump the ball up again until the block is freed, that way it will slowly lower onto the dolly wjth no damage too

Great thinking and ingenuity, we don't need to buy stuff for every small job!

Awesome. Thanks v much. My friends spent 4 hours to move inches by inches.

Sir You deserve a nobel prize

Innovation at its finest.

fantastic

That is actually really clever

What a good idea

This totally worked!!! Any recommendations on how to get it off the dolly?

Very smart

ingenious

That is brilliant! I was wondering if here are little airbags that you can use to lift a piano but I never thought about using a basketball.

One problem, the casters/wheels on a $20 dolly are NOT the right type of material for a hardwood floor. The weight of many pianos will cause them to leave impressions/tracks in your hardwood/finish! Which MAY OR MAY NOT disappear. Placing a sheet of plywood on the floor where you roll the piano is your best option.

You are great very good idea I like it a lot

Did same today. Thanks for the video. Used a Piano moving service to move piano from one from to the next, costing $200. Moved back ourselves with this technic. Only problems is the bottom clearance is too small to insert the deflated ball. Had to buy a lift bag ($15) to lift enough first to insert the deflated ball. The lift bags are think deflated but can only lift 3 inches, too little to insert a Dolley.

Wow, dad award of the year

genius

nice idea . hopefully on first level high enough to be straight in , even with pickup bed & you'll just have to make a flat ramp

what a great idea! we are having our floors resurfaced and didn't want to hire someone to move the piano nor try to lift it and hurt myself.

INGENIOUS!!!✌️😁

You should not be placing your hands under that heavy load, even for a split second. Great way to lift it! Thanks.

I would be fired from my moving company if i used that hard wheeled dolly on those nice floors. Will leave a nice groove. Rubber wheels all day

Thanks for the video. Can you please provide a link for the dolly?

My only question is, you said the wood stands are higher than the dolly. How do you remove the wood once weight it on it?

Géniale!

So smart

This is a good tip. As a piano mover this piano is particularly not east to lift as it a half plate piano. The handles are on the back and right or left hand depending on the side you’re on grab under the key board. I’ll post and show my method. But this is also dangerous as not all pianos have the same balance. Steinway&Sons pianos have a beveled edge and when lift even with this sort of anticipation you are likely to get crushed by your piano. This piano weighs in at about 375-450lbs