Re: How to move my accordion?

John Moppett wrote on "How to move my accordion?"
I've shipped a number round the UK. Always use a large cardboard box, wrap accordian in several layers of bubble wrap, then pad the box out with bubble wrap or crumpled newspaper. Works for me!!

And for me, 'usually'. Nothing will protect the fragile wax joining heavy reed plates to wood from a significant deceleration shock. It has happened twice to me ...

1. my infant son flipped my Castagnari Lilli off my shoulder and it fell to concrete about 1m down. AFAIR about 4 reed plates came away. The woodwork took the blow very well, a tribute to Sandro and Co!

2. Years later the same instrument was shipped, wrapped as you describe across England for a retune. It arrived with 'most of the reed plates lying loose inside the bellows'! Fortunately its repair was insured.

I contrast these incidents to suggest just how violently even 'fragile' parcels may be treated either by automated mail sorting or (surely not?) by rogue Posties.

I have to say that virtually everything else I've posted has been OK.
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Chris Ryall Wirral UK <cjr2007@xxxxxxxxx> 'lurker'
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