Hi, Jörg. > > I may ship a lute from Germany to Australia in the next time. Does > anybody have experiences how to do so best? What to I have to > organize? ... Can anybody help me? > Perhaps. In part, it depends what you mean by "ship". I have brought a number of lutes into Oz with me (them in the hold of an aircraft, me as passenger) and there has net been an issue (aside from the obvious one of protection).
If you are shipping it through the post/courier, then there are some other issue that come up. It will be inspected, which means that protection for the remainder of the journey will be an issue. And there will be a tax (we use the term GST) of 10% if the instrument is values over AUD$1000. We support the endangered species convention but require no official confirmation/paperwork. In practice, I have never heard of that being an issue with any modern musical instrument. I hope this helps a little. -- mark To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
