Cross country piano move

[David Ilvedson, RPT]

What concerns me is it was refinished in August, i.e. cracking finish,
coming from San Francisco to a very dry NY, i.e. cracking board

David I.

-----Original Message-----
From: Douglasmahard@AOL.COM <Douglasmahard@AOL.COM>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: Cross country piano move


>In a message dated 12/04/2000 11:47:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>ilvey@jps.net writes:
>
><<  will be shipping a Steinway M across country in the near future.
Should I
> be concerned about the cold temperature?  I am in discussion with movers.
> Shafer & Sons has a small truck with no heat.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> David Ilvedson, RPT >>
>
>Hi David,
>
>I don't believe there is any concern here.  Our rental Yamaha C7 comes out
of
>"cold storage"  with no ill effects other then having sufficient time for
it
>to come up to room temp. so the tuning is stabile. We do have an Edwards
>String Cover velcroed on.
>
>Doug Mahard
>