[TPIN] airlines + trumpet: travel difficulties

[James, Timothy W]

Doug Yeo, Bass Trombonist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has a site jam packed with information all brass players can use.
One of his articles is very detailed about traveling with your brass instrument: http://www.yeodoug.com/resources/faq/faq_text/travel.html

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From: Thomas Meacham [mailto:tmeacham at gci.net]
Sent: Mon 02-Oct-06 1:46 PM
To: William Graham
Cc: tpin at tpin.okcu.edu
Subject: Re: [TPIN] airlines + trumpet: travel difficulties



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........