Not sure about the keyboard but the safest way to ship drums across the USA is greyhound, Heard lots of horror stories about UPS, Fedex and USPS and I had USPS completely destroy a snare drum that was shipped in a padded SKB snare case inside a box.When it arrived the box and case looked fine but it sounded like a maraca and when I opened it up it was a box of parts and pieces.
While were on the subject, how about internationally? Does anybody have experience with that? Need to ship my '65 Slingerlands from California to Germany. I'm worried sick about it.
Not sure about the keyboard but the safest way to ship drums across the USA is greyhound, Heard lots of horror stories about UPS, Fedex and USPS and I had USPS completely destroy a snare drum that was shipped in a padded SKB snare case inside a box.When it arrived the box and case looked fine but it sounded like a maraca and when I opened it up it was a box of parts and pieces.
Most drums get from the manufacture' warehouse to the store via UPS.
All anyone needs is the right size box, some bubble wrap, and tape. That's what your drums came in originally.
Most drums get from the manufacture' warehouse to the store via UPS.
All anyone needs is the right size box, some bubble wrap, and tape. That's what your drums came in originally.
. Besides you would never know how many dont make it to the dealer in one piece as you only see the ones that do.
These belong to a friend of mine Robin Porier and were shipped in their factory boxes and didnt make it unharmed, You can see the damage in the pics and one drum nor shown wasnt salvageable.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/PEAVEY-RADI...129?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e6487a919
Also Mike Kelly from upstate NY had his 6 piece shipped in original boxes and the 16" tom was damaged as well. All you can do is have them insured and hope for the best, not so bad if its still something that is in production and the insurance will pay for another but when you have a 1 of a kind prototype or something thats long out of production you get screwed. I could list at least a dozen more guys just in the last couple years that have had drums damaged in transit and were packaged more than good enough.
I am just lucky I can now get a new bridge made for my one of a kind Bobby Rock brass snare by the guys at Boogie Woodie but even though USPS paid me the cost of the snare and the shipping it was insured for, by the time I get the new bridge and get it painted and back together it will cost more than twice as much as I had paid for the snare originally and thats only because I have my own paint shop and will do my own paint and assembly once the new bridge arrives.