[TPIN] airlines + trumpet: travel difficulties

[Thomas Meacham]

James,

Remember the guy who posted on TPIN a number of months ago?  His Bach 
Strad was  packed in his checked luggage, and TSA destroyed it by 
applying a wrench to the hex-sided mouthpiece receiver, apparently 
thinking that it unscrewed...(!!).

With TSA and the like, the customer never wins..

Tom Meacham
Anchorage, Alaska

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On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:37 AM, William Graham wrote:


CIA, the guard to my cornet, held it upside down and shook it, causing 
my
> gold-plaited mouthpiece to fall out of the horn and destroying it.

If I had a dollar for every time I dropped my own mouthpiece, I'd be 
rich......The first thing I do now, when anyone asks to look at my horn 
is remove the mouthpiece....I wish they had designed horns to have 
screw-in mouthpieces instead of the stupid jam-ins they do have........