May I add something to the discussion about Packing and Shipping Music
Boxes, and all the very good pieces of advice given by Nancy Fratti and
some other members.

For most of us, we are entering the winter season, with strong
differences of temperature and humidity between the inside of our
houses or our cars and the outside, or even garages or other places
without a heating system.  It should be remembered that mechanical
music instruments are primarily music instruments, very sensitive to
temperature modifications.  Such strong differences might influence
badly the tuning of organs, but too the structure of the wood or of the
metal.  When receiving or unwrapping an instrument after
transportation, if you feel that its temperature is far different from
the temperature of the room where you want it to play, it is strongly
advised to wait a few hours till both temperatures are similar.

So do not try to wind up a music box just after transportation: the
metal of the spring might not like it at all, and same for the other
components (endless screw, or even teeth).

Do not re-tune an organ as soon as it has been transported: give it
time to adapt to the new environment.

Remember music instruments have a voice, like human beings, and that
that voice might be damaged by too much cold or heat, shocks or
uncarelessness.  I wish you to listen to very good music from your
instruments.

Philippe Rouille (Paris, France).