It's arrived

No mailman on his bike for this delivery:


Need to use the hydraulic lift:


Safely strapped in:

Onto the dolly:

and into the front hall (plus figuring out how to turn the camera back to "colour" mode):


Takes almost the WHOLE front hall:


Trying to figure out how to get those pesky metal straps off:


Open at last:


Wotta lotta packaging - at least it kept it safe:


Still more layers to unwrap:

Case safely opened:


The first blow:

Tidying up all the packaging:


All the cardboard nicely cut up for the recycling man to take away:


Detailed closeups of the instrument to come later...