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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music.folk
Subject: Re: Flying with instruments
Message-ID: <255@persci.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 22:21:02 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 21 22:21:02 1985
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Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (Bill Swan)
Organization: Personal Scientific, Woodinville WA
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Summary: 

>[...]  If these accidents happen so 
>frequently, I wonder how professional musicians, who travel a lot between 
>gigs, transport their prized, in some cases irreplaceable, instruments.  [...] 

In many cases they apparently just check them through. At a recent Magical
Strings concert Pam Boulding related a horror story of a lost harp on their
last tour. They were going, I think, from Kansas City to (somewhere), Texas,
but their harp didn't arrive when they did. The airline finally located it
(on its way to Hawaii? I don't remember..) the next day and delivered it
an hour before a scheduled concert.

I remeber another group in Seattle who had to delay their concert until their
instruments arrived from Portland, OR. All of them. The airline really fouled
up on some connection!

There's got to be a better way to get these instruments transported!