Packing Music Boxes
By Nancy Fratti
Hi!
Thanks for your response to my 'packing music boxes' blurb.
That was a quick 'off the cuff' article and I did definitely leave out some 'other stuff'. I'm going to expand that article and put it in an issue of the MBSI (Musical Box Society Int'l.) publication...as soon as I have time!
The additional information in the article will definitely include the warning about temperature differences!
I have a personal happening with temperature differences back in the early '80s.....it was February, 14 degrees outside, and I was escorting a lovely interchangeable box with table to a mid-southern state. I packed it for flight, bought myself a ticket too, and marked the carton 'Scientific Instrument...do not freeze". Well, when I reached my destination,
SURPRISE!, the carton didn't make the same plane I did! My customer and I waited 3 hours in the terminal, and greeted the next plane...hoping that it was on that flight. It was. We did NOT open it for about an hour after we arrived at his house (temperature was about 65-70 degrees outside). When we did open it, the frigid air came out in a rush. We took the music box & table out of the carton, unwrapped it and the lacquer finish, which was about 1 year old, was crazed unbelieveably!!!
Did the crazing happen between my house and Chicago (where we changed planes)...from being left out in the open air in Chicago?....from being in the warmer climate of the customer's house????. Don't know, but it made me leery of shipping newer refinished boxes in the wintertime, without warning the customer of the potential dangers!
Thanks again for the input...
Nancy Fratti
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