[TPIN] airlines + trumpet: travel difficulties

[Scott Carson]

> On 10/2/06, Patrick Olguin <patrickolguin at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>> I always take my horn on the road.  Sometimes at security I'll get a
>> knowing look, or "nice axe," comment.   Last month was the only  
>> time I had
>> to take the horn out of the bag (an Altieri single gig bag).  The  
>> concern
>> was over the k&m trumpet stand.  Then they asked me to play it (the
>> equivalent of drinking baby formula, I suppose).  Somehow  
>> "Dragnet," came
>> out of the horn.

You should have told them that if they wanted to hear you play they  
had to give you $150.

In light of the recent Kip Hawley kerfuffle, however, that may not be  
such a great idea:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/28/idiot.baggie/index.html

Scott Carson