Allston Piano Moving Company

Allston Piano Moving Company is a Boston piano-moving specialist — a division of Gentle Giant Moving Company since 2010, after operating for decades as a family business founded in 1955 by former professional wrestler George Franklin and later run by his son Robert Franklin. The company says it's been in business 60 years and that its movers are members of the Piano Technicians Guild; its stated service area covers Greater Boston, New England, and New York State. Reviews from the past several months are consistently five stars and describe pianos moved through genuinely hard conditions: a piano craned into a third-floor apartment through tight quarters, a baby grand moved from Newton to Roslindale with care for both the instrument and the floors, and a piano relocated from one room to another without ever going outside. Repeat business comes up often — one reviewer says the crew has moved their Steinway three times since 2011, and another has called on them at least six times over the past three years. The same names recur across reviews — Nuno Melo, Andrew, Rudy — for careful, communicative work. In an October 2025 review, one customer described a Yamaha U1 moved down a very tight staircase after another company had declined the job. In a January 2026 review, one customer said the crew did professional work but felt a $752 charge for moving a single upright piano within the same town — a roughly one-hour, three-person job — was overpriced. Allston Piano looks like the specialist to call for a piano move of any difficulty, from a simple in-home shift to a multi-story crane job — the specialization and the volume of repeat customers back that up. Get a specific quote up front given that one report of a steep same-town charge.