MartinKess@gmail.com wrote:
> $800US to ship your piano?! That's more expensive than my plane ticket!
> But yes, the piano is the only thing that I have to ship. The road case
> is a good idea I think, I'll look into that this weekend.

no, $800 for 2 cubic meters.


> 
> Thanks a ton everyone.
> 
> MonkeyBoy wrote:
>> I shipped my Roland digital piano by surface along with a bunch of
>> other stuff.  Is the piano the only thing you're shipping?  If you've
>> got other stuff to ship and via surface they basically ship by volume
>> not weight, so a dense item like a digital piano has good cost
>> performance.  If I recall corerctly it cost me around $800US to ship 2
>> cubic meters door to door (to Japan).
>>
>> Otherwise, as someone elase mentioned maybe you could check it in on
>> the plane and spend that money instead on a decent road case - though
>> you've probably have your hands full already :-)
>