Re: How to move my accordion?


"Chris Ryall" <groups2@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
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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.

Usually in the U.S. I have had the best results with the U.S. Postal Service
as opposed to UPS (the worst) and FEDEX and DHL, which I haven't used
recently but others have used to send them to me. once in a while even the
USPS has been brutal, which is why I always heve at least 2 inches of
padding between the container and the instrument. The times there have been
an accident, when I had less experience, it was from the box being too small
to allow enough padding. And don't assume that insurance will pay for it.


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