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Re: travelling with oboe

Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-08-14 14:14

You should be fine with keeping your best reeds in with your oboe, but put everything else (prohibited items) in your main luggage to go in the hold.

The risk of putting your best reeds in your main luggage is that if you have to make a connecting flight and your flight gets delayed (making you miss your connecting flight), your luggage may not meet you at your destination, along with your reeds. And if you have a concert or a rehearsal within the first few days and you haven't yet been reunited with your suitcase, there's not a lot you can do without any reeds.

Fortunately I've only been stopped going through the metal detector for wearing steel toe-cap boots, metal zips and small metal belt buckles. My oboe has gone through the X-ray (reeds and all) with no trouble.

Only last month while out in Malta when I realised I still had my wallet on me while in the hotel pool. I took everything out of it and laid them all out to dry when I realised I was carrying a load of needle springs pinned to a folded up piece of paper. These went through airport security without being detected, and I had them in there when I flew out to Washington the year before!

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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