<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>Actually the proof will be in the pudding I'm afraid. Granted the most
<BR>serious damage will be done if the move is vice versa, ie. from Hawaii to
<BR>Co., and of that you can be sure. I'm afraid the converse will be true as
<BR>well. Perhaps if the move is done swiftly and the piano is immediately put
<BR>in a climate controlled environment, then maybe it will survive.
<BR> I had the opportunity to sell a second hand acrosonic to a mission
<BR>church in New Orleans back in the 70's and they shipped it to their mission
<BR>in Costa Rica. A few months later they sent me to Costa Rica to service it.
<BR>Now you must understand that in this particular region there was no hot and
<BR>cold water, just cold, and no windows as we know them, just shutters...so the
<BR>piano was pretty much a mass of rust, sticking everything etc....I did
<BR>successfully service it but I estimate it's life was not much
<BR>longer.....Anyway, my rationale is why more than anything. The piano's life
<BR>is over, let it rest in peace without disemboweling it.
<BR>tom mc</FONT></HTML>