Hello everybody.
Does anyone have advice on shipping the clavinet? I am wrapping it in bubble plastic and putting it in a cardboard. But what about the pickups? Should I remove
those and wrap them in bubblwrap aswell?
shipping a clavinet
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Posts: 13 (10/30/08 09:27:20) |
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Posts: 13 (11/04/08 12:22:14) |
If anyone has a better idea than what you suggested yourself I'd like to hear it. I had my D6 shipped to me in much the way you're describing and the
package was completely destroyed when it arrived. It was double wrapped in bubble wrap, boxed, then bubble wrapped again and then placed inside another box
that had foam lining. The shipper thought they did an insanely overkill job of packaging (and if you saw it you'd agree) but in reality it was barely
enough. Basically the weight of the D6 completely destroyed the packaging and it was just that there was so much of it that the instrument itself survived.
Luckily, the only damage was to one of the handles on the case; it got a bit bent out of shape. This was shipped from coast to coast (US) so it had a pretty
long trip... It seems to me that really the best way to ship one would be to have an ATA flight case made for it and ship it in that. I can't advise on the
pickups but that sounds like a good idea. They're super fragile and I could easily see them getting cracked if the instrument was dropped from any distance
even if no direct contact was made to the pickups. Though I don't know if disassembly/removal/assembly of the pickups is a good idea or not, there's
people here who'd know that better than I.
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akclavinet |
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Posts: 785 (11/05/08 12:53:48) |
Don't remove the pickups. Ship a clavinet in the right sized 200lb test box, uline.com has them available in bundles of 10 or 15.You should cover the
clavinet in bubble wrap and use strapping to ensure the lid stays on. If the clavinet still gets damaged, then it's the carriers fault. Use Fedex ground,
they have shipped many of our clavinets and pianets and they have always arrived safely.
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Posts: 89 (11/13/08 03:42:08) |
If you want to ensure that your clavinet will arrive safe, then use a dedicated professional piano mover such as Keyboard Carriage. It will cost a lot more
than UPS, DHL or USPS, take a lot longer, and be less convenient. I believe Keyboard Carriage only ship & deliver to their music store clients so you will
have to arrange for the shipper to deliver to a local music store & you will have to pick up at your local music store. But the added cost time &
inconvenience is far outweighed, in my opinion, by knowing that your clavinet will be handled by professional piano movers who know how to move a $100,000
concert grand piano without damaging it.
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