Sorry to pick-up late on this one. I had a Chickering Ampico grand shipped from Solvang in California to Wellington New Zealand about 2 1/2 years ago. I can't remember who the shipping company was - it was all organised by the dealer. Anyway, there was no mention of, and no issue with the ivories (thankfully!); in fact, the crate didn't even look as if it had been opened by the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries (MAF). They would have had to have gone to a lot of effort of unwrapping this grand just to look at the keytops! Stephen Powell, RPT, ARPT Wellington, NZ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091109/005b0b9f/attachment.htm>
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