Nevertheless the moist salty air still does play havoc over time with the reeds and probably the leather.

Transporting instruments packed in boxes is something else entirely. The main risk there is the hazardous nature of sea voyages. But that applies to any transported commodity.


In 2012 my brother-in-law and I took a small canal tug down from the Humber to the Thames by sea. Neither of us took our Wheatstones for both of the reasons expressed above.