Checkmate Piano Movers
Colorado Springs's Piano Specialists & Full-Service Movers
Licensed, fully insured movers in Colorado Springs, CO — Nathan's crew skids Broadmoor grands and church organs by hand and packs the whole house with the same care, across El Paso County and the Pikes Peak region.
My Colorado Springs Moving Quote
One written Colorado Springs price, back to you within the business hour
Why Colorado Springs Trusts Checkmate With the Heavy Stuff
A piano crew that learned the Pikes Peak grades and dry-altitude rules the hard way, here in Colorado Springs.
Grands, Organs & Heavy Pieces
Concert grands at the Broadmoor, uprights in Old North End parlors, and pipe and electronic organs for Front Range churches all get skidded, padded, and crated by our own trained piano crew — the part of the job most El Paso County and the Pikes Peak region movers would rather skip.
Top-Rated CO Crews
Our movers are full-time W-2 Checkmate employees, background-checked and drilled on everything from a 900-pound concert grand to a full split-level household — we never staff a job with day labor. That's how we hold a 5-star rating on Google and Yelp.
Transparent, Honest Pricing
No hidden fees, no driveway surprises. Clear flat-rate quotes in writing for local Colorado Springs moves, a set piano price by instrument, and binding written estimates for every long-distance relocation.
No Brokers, No Subcontractors
The truck in your driveway is ours and the crew draws a Checkmate paycheck. Your move is never posted to a load board or handed to a stranger in a rented van — one company, start to finish.
Fully Insured, $1M Cargo
Licensed for Colorado intrastate moves as PUC and interstate under our own US DOT 3402518 / MC 1102873 authority, with $1 million in cargo coverage on every single job.
On Time, Even in Snow
A two-hour arrival window and a call when the truck leaves the yard. We plan around Monument Hill ice and the mountain grades so your closing date, your elevator reservation, and your move-out deadline still hold.
Packing & Supplies Included
Full or partial packing, with every material we need loaded before we leave the yard — pads, shrink wrap, piano boards, dollies, and cartons — so the Checkmate crew starts working the second we knock.
Specialty Moves Handled
Pianos, gun safes, antiques, and oversized pieces moved with the right boards, straps, and a crew chief who has walked a baby grand up a Cheyenne Mountain switchback driveway before.
Free Estimate in 1 Hour
Tell us about your piano or your whole house and a real person at our Colorado Springs office sends a flat-rate written quote back — usually within one business hour, no obligation.
We Know Colorado Springs. We Move CO.
A reputation Nathan has built one piano and one household at a time since 2010, all across the Front Range.
Your Full-Service Colorado Springs Mover
Piano expertise plus every other kind of move, from Briargate split-levels to Manitou Springs mountain homes across the Pikes Peak region.
Local Moving
Anywhere inside Colorado Springs and El Paso County is a day move for us, from a Briargate two-story to a split-level out toward Falcon. Nathan maps the job like a chess position before anyone lifts a thing, and then our own piano crew handles the loading, the drive up Powers or I-25, and the unload, all on one flat written rate.
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Long-Distance Moving
Leaving the Front Range for Denver, Pueblo, Albuquerque, Phoenix, or Dallas? Whoever pads and wraps your Colorado Springs home is who drives it and sets the cartons down at the destination, the entire trip priced as one binding figure. Your job never hits a freight board, no middleman skims the bill, and a grand rides with the very crew that crated it.
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Residential Moving
We move houses right across the Pikes Peak region, be it a Rockrimmon tri-level with a basement haul or a Cheyenne Mountain place perched on a grade. Door frames and floors get padded, beds and oversized furniture come apart and go back together at the far address, and on a snowy day the load stays strapped tight for the Monument Hill descent on I-25.
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Apartment & Condo Moving
Condos, lofts, and apartment buildings from the downtown Olympic Museum district out to UCCS, including the ones with a single skinny stairwell or an elevator slot you have to book and hit. Devon reserves the freight car and the loading zone in advance, floor runners go down through the lobby, and a third-floor move still wraps up inside its window.
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Full Packing
Turn the entire house over to Trent's packers, or just the rooms you would rather not face, and the kitchen, the stemware, and the framed art come out boxed double and labeled per room. Anything our hands wrap is insured to the same level as the heavy pieces on the load, and the cartons, paper, and tape arrive with the crew so nobody is running to the store the night before.
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Short-Term Storage
Closing dates around the Springs almost never sync up, so for the gap we tuck your household into a clean, climate-controlled unit, a real plus in this thin mountain air, and redeliver it on your say-so. Figure roughly $110 to $260 a month by unit size, set down in writing alongside the estimate rather than sprung on you as a second bill.
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Piano Moving
This is what Checkmate was built on. Concert grands, baby grands, uprights, consoles, spinets, player pianos, and church and electronic organs, skidded on the board, padded, and crated by our own trained piano crew, never a general mover guessing. Gideon has eased more than one grand down the Broadmoor stairs without a mark, and because the Front Range air is so dry, we talk you through humidity and acclimation so the instrument settles right at the new room. Uprights run about $280 to $450, baby grands $500 to $800, concert grands $750 to $1,300, and organs $350 to $650.
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Loading & Unloading
Rented your own truck, or have a pod or container sitting in the driveway? Book our crew by the hour to load it tight or unload it quick, your furniture and boxes getting the same trained hands a full move would, the upright included if you have one. Useful when you are driving yourself to Denver or Pueblo and just need the heavy, awkward pieces handled by people who do it for a living.
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Senior Moving
Calm, unhurried help when a parent is leaving a longtime house in the Old North End or elsewhere in the Springs for a smaller home or a senior community. We sort alongside them, pack, move, and get the new rooms set up, and should a beloved spinet or upright be making the trip, our piano crew gives it the careful treatment, with the family kept in the loop on timing throughout.
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See a ballpark Colorado Springs figure in seconds with the Checkmate calculator, then request a free written quote that nails down your exact flat rate.
Move Details
Tell Checkmate the home size, the move type, and the packing help, and a ballpark Colorado Springs range refreshes on the spot.
Two Checkmate movers, $130/hr, · ~3–5 hours · truck, pads & dollies rolled in
Set My Flat RateBallpark figure for now. Nathan locks the binding flat rate after a quick on-site or video survey of the home and any piano.
What Our Colorado Springs Customers Say
Our 5-star reputation comes from Pikes Peak families — and a lot of well-loved pianos — we've moved since 2010.
“We had a baby grand to bring down from the upper level of our Broadmoor place along with a full 2-bed, and Gideon's crew handled the piano beautifully, skid board, straps, the whole routine, not a scratch on the case or the stair rail. Where I'd hold back the fifth star: scheduling was a little loose, they landed closer to the back of the morning window than the front, so we lost an hour standing around. Once they got going the work was first-rate and the written price never moved.”
“Needed our upright moved from an Old Colorado City rental into a cottage up in Manitou, narrow porch steps on both ends. I called three movers and Checkmate was the only one who talked about a skid board and humidity instead of just 'yeah we can grab that.' Two guys, padded it, walked it down the stoop slow, and tucked it into the new front room. Worth every dollar to know the piano was in real piano hands.”
“Our Manitou Springs place is on one of those streets where a big truck barely fits, and the crew handled it like they'd done it a hundred times. They wrapped the furniture, took the old narrow staircase a piece at a time, and rebuilt both beds at the new house. Nathan had quoted a flat number after walking through, and that was exactly what I paid at the end, no creep. Genuinely good people.”
“Small studio over in Briargate, and honestly I felt a bit silly booking a piano-specialist crew for something that fit in one room. They gave it full attention regardless. A pair of movers had me loaded and settled into the new spot in under three hours, careful with my turntable and bike, and the flat rate came in honest with nothing added at the close. Smooth from beginning to end.”
A Note From Nathan
“I ran the delivery floor for a Colorado Springs piano dealer for years, walking grands into Broadmoor estates and uprights up tri-level stairs, before I started Checkmate Piano Movers in 2010. I'd seen instruments worth more than a car bounced around by movers who'd never touched a skid board, and Fort Carson families lowballed on the phone then gouged at the truck. So I built a crew that moves pianos and organs right and brings that same planning to the whole house — our trucks, our people, a written flat rate. The name is a chess nod: every move planned to the last step.”
Your Easy Colorado Springs Move
Quote, wrap, deliver — three steps and you're settling in at the new place.
Tell Us About Your Move
Send the basics — or describe the piano — and Checkmate works up one clear flat-rate price with no fine print.
We Skid, Pad & Wrap
Our uniformed crew arrives on time, skids and crates any piano, blankets your furniture, and handles all the heavy lifting.
Move to Your New Home
We haul everything across the Springs, set the piano in place, unload boxes by room, and reassemble the furniture. Welcome home!
Proudly Serving El Paso County and the Pikes Peak region
From the Broadmoor to Briargate — your local movers in every Colorado Springs neighborhood.
Colorado Springs Moving & Piano Questions, Answered
The things people ask Nathan's crew most before booking a move.
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