Mike Marsh moves pianos for a living.
Mike Marsh also drag races a Chevy Camaro.
Two completely opposite interests, but those two are Mike Marsh’s job and hobby.
“I got into drag racing because it was the farthest from what I did for a living,” Marsh said during a recent interview conducted while he was moving a piano. “People who know me from drag racing can’t believe I move pianos, and people who know me from piano moving don’t believe I drag race.”
Marsh appears more like a drag racer than a piano mover. Moving slowly and with intention, he sports a white mustache-goatee combination, piercing blue eyes, and rough-skinned hands. He speaks with a heavy Southern drawl filled with confidence. All of Marsh looks rough-and-tumble, yet the man moves pianos with the precision and litheness of a butterfly. “I got into this business when I was 15. My dad and uncle were in the piano-moving business, and I helped on the delivery truck. After I majored in music at Jefferson State Community College, I continued moving pianos.”
