<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Do you speak from experience?  ;-]</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>David I.<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********<BR><BR>On 3/10/01 at 12:30 AM Richard Brekne wrote:</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid">Yes... make sure there are not any squirrels around... <P>David Ilvedson wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <FONT size=-1>List,</FONT> <FONT size=-1>I will be shipping a Steinway M across country in the next week or so.  I am considering locking the action as most manufacturers do with a strip of wood across the shanks tied to the action brackets.  Anything else I should be thinking of?</FONT> <FONT size=-1>Thanks in advance..</FONT> <FONT size=-1>David I.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>-- <BR>Richard Brekne <BR>RPT, N.P.T.F. <BR>Bergen, Norway <BR><A href="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no">mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no</A> <BR>  <FONT size=2 Arial></P></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>