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RE: Carrying instruments on airplanes - this is cool and veryrelevant!



I just came back from Lebanon w/ a Sukar oud which I carried on. I was afraid people would cram their carry ons into it but it made it back safe and sound. I would carry on any instrument --That's what I was told -you're a musician, bring it on board! Hardware gear is probably saferin baggage but I don't know from experience.
J.D.Devros
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> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:32:11 +0200
> Subject: Re: Carrying instruments on airplanes - this is cool and very relevant!
> From: perboysen@gmail.com
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>
> I live by these two rules on this matter:
>
> 1) Only bring small instruments that fit into your cabin luggage bag.
> 2) Use a foam diced hard case when checking in an instrument.
>
> It seems a hard case diced with foam protects the instruments well
> enough for checking it in. And these cases are a must for most air
> travel companies' luggage insurance. They are quite expensive though,
> so therefore I do not own one. Instead I stick with small instruments
> when having to fly somewhere.
>
> One thing I've been thinking about, regarding guitar, is to use a hard
> case that is bigger than the instrument and stuff it up with that
> cheap plastic "air pillows" material. Make sure the guitar can not
> move inside the case, especially not towards the neck direction! You
> may put some stopper blocks at the body horns, by the side of where
> the neck meets the body, to fix the guitar's position. I recently had
> a guitar sent to me that was very well packed by every aspect except
> that it had nothing to prevent it to glide upwards. Some UPS staff
> packed it upside down inside a lorry and on arrival the head stock was
> bent and the fretboard lose from the neck by the first and second
> fret. Sad.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se
> www.perboysen.com
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