Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2014-02-15 22:28
Stan in Orlando wrote,
>>I imagine at some point in the future, the protocol for traveling with an instrument will require the player to actually play something for the security folks. You know, prove it's a working horn and that your story is legit. >>
That's already happening. Every time I've travelled in the USA with a carry-on wind instrument since 9/11, the security folks at the gate have asked me to take the instrument out and play it. It's happened a fair few times, even though I'm not a pro muscian, because I have family on the opposite side of the continent and whenever I travel, I go to flea markets and junktiques stores. I'd rather not trust the baggage gremlins with a clarinet even if it's in skanky condition, but since the TSA people don't know or care whether or not I can play a Brahms sonata, I travel with enough emergency repair parts in my checked-through luggage so that I can assemble the screech-stick and honk a few notes on demand. That way, I've never been forced to gate-check an instrument even when it's unplayable by *our* standards.
Lelia
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