Cross-country piano move

[Barrie Heaton]

A few years ago I used to work for a Company that restored antiques,
occasionally the odd square piano and harmonium came up on one
particular occasion a square piano plus quite a considerable amount of
furniture was been restored for a client in South Africa.

I had know idea how long the piano would stand on the docks or be held
in
the ships hold in the container.  So what we did is buy two large
plastic sheets from the builders merchants the type of plastic sheets
they used to line the walls with when building new houses its very thick
about three millimetres.

This it what we did, we laid one sheet on top of each other and with a
soldering iron and two long pieces of metal for clamps went round and
sealed all the edges on three sides making a huge plastic bag.  We
then wrapped the piano in cheap cloth and slid inside the plastic bag.
We then proceeded to seal the rest of the bag except for a two inch gap.
We then placed suction tube from a large vacuum cleaner and sucked out
all of the air in the bag.  Clamped remaining unsealed area hold out
vacuum tube and sealed it with the soldering iron.  Then we packed it in
the normal way and put it in a crate and shipped it off.  The customer
reported at the other end that the seal was in tact one vacuum packed
piano.

Hope this helps.

Barrie.

In article <3262C782.4801@shaysnet.com>, Rob & Karen Loomis
<rkloomis@shaysnet.com> writes
>Dear List,
>       Within the next few weeks I need to move a ca.1815 Broadwood Sq. from
>our shop in Western Mass. where it has been kept and worked on in an
>encloser with the humidity kept relatively low (~20%)to Santa Fe, NM
>where it will live in relatively low humidity. It is my hope that this
>instrument can be moved quickly across country without allowing the
>humidity to rise.
>       Does anyone have any suggestions of how best to do this or if any
>moving services are available that could guarantee this type of climate
>control? I'm prepared to drive it out, but wonder if there are other
>options.
>       Thanks very much.
>
>       Rob Loomis.
>
>
>





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