Piano storage
Piano storage for touring musicians
Your instrument stays in climate-controlled, insured storage while you are on tour. We collect before you leave and re-deliver to wherever you are based when you return.
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Your instrument stays in climate-controlled, insured storage while you are on tour. We collect before you leave and re-deliver to wherever you are based when you return.
Book storageThe touring reality
A good home piano is one of the most important tools a working musician owns. It is where you learn new repertoire, where you warm up, where you sound like yourself. It cannot go on a concert tour with you, but leaving it unattended in a flat, a rehearsal room or a practice studio for three, six or nine months is a risk you do not need to take.
Musicians store with us for many reasons: a lengthy run of concert dates, an extended residency, a production that keeps you on the road for a full season, or a contract abroad that stretches out longer than expected. Whatever has taken you away, the instrument needs somewhere clean, stable and properly looked after until you are back.
Why conditions matter
A piano left in an empty flat gets the worst of every season. Central heating off in winter means temperature swings. Summer brings humidity spikes. A property that is not lived in does not regulate itself the way an occupied home does, and a piano registers every variation: a cracked soundboard, shifting tuning, sticking or sluggish keys.
An unmanaged rehearsal room or a practice facility that turns the heating down between bookings is no better. The problem is not one cold night. It is weeks and months of inconsistent conditions that move the wood, loosen the pins and degrade the felt. By the time you notice the damage, it has already happened.
How it works
The process fits around the touring schedule rather than the other way round. You book a collection date before you depart. Our specialist piano crew arrives in a confirmed window, wraps the instrument properly and takes it to the storage facility. It stays there, insured and in stable conditions, for the whole time you are away.
When the tour ends and you are settled again, one message books the return. Re-delivery goes to whatever address you are at when you come back, whether that is your original home, a new place, or somewhere else entirely. The same specialist crew carries the piano in and positions it where you need it.
Flexible terms
Tours do not run to neat calendar months, and storage terms should not force them to. There is no minimum term and no fixed contract. You pay the collection fee plus the first four weeks at booking, and after that the weekly rate runs in four-weekly cycles for as long as you need. A three-month run costs three months of storage, not six.
Because PianoStorage is part of the Pianospeed Group, the whole journey is handled by one organisation with one record of your instrument. If your re-delivery address changes, if the tour extends, or if the dates shift, you deal with one team with a single view of the booking rather than trying to coordinate across separate firms.
Simple, transparent pricing
Prices include collection, climate-controlled storage and full insurance. Stairs without a lift and off-day collections are priced transparently in the booking. Re-delivery is quoted when you are ready for the piano back.
Questions
Yes, a six-month tour is one of the most common reasons working musicians store with us. There is no minimum or maximum term. We collect before you leave, store the piano in climate-controlled conditions throughout, and re-deliver when you are back and settled. The billing simply runs until you are ready for the return.
Yes. Storage runs on four-weekly billing cycles with no fixed end date, so if a tour runs long you simply keep the billing going. To end earlier, give us a few days notice and we book re-delivery for the next available slot in your postcode area.
Yes. Re-delivery goes to any address on GB mainland or in Belfast, not only the address we collected from. Let us know the new address when you book the return and we confirm the next available delivery date for that postcode area.
Climate-controlled storage is the most important factor in preserving tuning over a long absence. The cracking and pin movement that throw a piano out of tune come from humidity swings and temperature extremes, and our facility avoids both. Any piano benefits from a tuning once it has settled in its new room after re-delivery, so we suggest booking a tuner a couple of weeks after the piano is back.
Stairs are no problem for our specialist piano crews, who handle them regularly. Access like a steep staircase, a tight landing or an upper-floor flat is priced clearly during online booking, so you see the full cost before you confirm and there are no surprises on the day.
Yes. We store instruments ranging from modest uprights to concert grands and high-value instruments. Every piano in our facility is covered by our insurance from the moment of collection through to re-delivery. If your instrument has significant value, we recommend confirming that your own specialist instrument policy sits alongside ours, as standard policies carry coverage limits.
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