How To Move a Piano by Yourself with the Wrong Equipment

So you want to move a piano by yourself, huh? You have a piano here, you need to get it to there, and now that you’ve decided that this needs to be done, you want to get it done right now. You have called the piano moving companies and have found out that it costs a bunch of money. It can’t be that hard to move a piano. You’ve moved furniture before. The piano is just a little bigger and heavier. There must be an easy way to do it, because pianos get moved around all the time. You’ve heard stories about people picking up pianos and carrying them upstairs, about people single-handedly maneuvering pianos through tight spaces, and you even have a friend who moved a piano once. If they can do it, so can you, right?
Now that it’s time to move the piano, reality hits. Oh. It weighs a lot. You don’t want to scratch the floors. How are you going to get it up and down the stairs? What is the best way to get it onto a truck? Will it fit around the corner? Should all the parts be taken off the piano to make it lighter? These questions initiate more and more questions, all asking “how can this be done?’ or, more specifically, “what is the best way to do this?” or maybe more immediately, “how can I learn how to do this right now?”
Until this book was written, the only ways you would have gotten your piano moved were either with a bunch of friends, brute force and a “figure-it-out-as-we-go” attitude, or to give in and hire piano movers. Now you can learn how to move a piano by yourself even if you don't have the right equipment.