[Dixielandjazz] Flying

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

When I went to Germany this past summer I had no trouble getting my Soprano 
Sax on the plane.  There was a French Horn player sitting in front of me. 
As long as they can open it and look at it.  We were both able to put them 
in the overhead compartment.   Little did they know what a tool of mass 
destruction I had.

They really took exception at the power transformer for my laptop that I 
packed in my luggage.  It showed up as a black box on the x-ray.  I thought 
that they were going to send for the bomb squad.  While they were fooling 
with that they got real excited about the metal in my suspenders and made me 
take off my shoes and they rubbed some sort of pads all over them.  The guy 
didn't think I was very funny when I asked for sole dressing too.
Larry
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edwin Stoddard" <estod at msn.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:05 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Flying


> Does anybody remember  some pronouncement by the government or the 
> airlines that musicians should continue (post 9-1-1) to be allowed to 
> carry on instruments to prevent their being trashed while checked?  I'm 
> getting ready to take a couple of trips to play & was thinking a copy of 
> same might help me avoid arguing with unsympathetic airline personnel.  My 
> instrument is bone (hard case.
>
> My brother thought he remembered some discussion here, so I checked a lot 
> of forum archives but failed to find anything.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Ed Stoddard
>
>
>
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