| Miles! They can't lose the Funk Engine. That would be like losing an elephant. A purple one at that. with lights on it.
Have fun Say hi to Sokrates for me!
I know the F.E. is NOT replaceable... but, insurance makes breathing easier... at least a bit.
On Sep 28, 2010, at 11:15 AM, miles ward wrote: I'm about to take my Sousaphone to Greece, so I'll report back how it goes! Wish the Funk Engine luck!
-miles
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
Your story really touched my heart. I'm glad you managed to get back
again! I traveled from Scandinavia to USA in 2006 and had the British
Airways' security officer in chief inspect my tenor sax flight case at
London airport and write a paper to verify security check was ok and
it should be taken care of well when checked in. So I checked it in.
But at San Fransisco it never showed up. I asked around among the
airport clerks and finally got informed that my sax from 1929 had
"been tagged as suspicious luggage and transported to a secure area
for termination - if not claimed by the owner within thirty minutes".
I ran like hell towards the mentioned secure area and got there just
five minutes before termination time. Phiew... Still have that tenor,
but when I fly I bring other instruments.
Greetings from Sweden
Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com
www.looproom.com internet music hub
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:51 PM, chuspa <chuspacpu@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I was flying from chile to england with a connection at NYC airport , because of the NYC airport rules at this time the flying companies that makes connection at NYC have to let the personal of the airport to recheck-in the baggage again, ( don't know if is still like this right now)
> I had 2 pieces of baggage , one was with my personal things and the second one was a special case that I specially order to make for this trip and inside was a one piece washburn electric guitar, a handmade bass and synth korg....
> So I pickup my baggage and recheck-in again for continue to london.
> When I arrived to london, I went to pickup my baggage , the one with my personal things arrived but the special case with instruments didn't ....and never see again.
> So I claimed to continental airlines, sending letters, emails, phone calls for a period of 3 months. I also send my customs declaration when I left chile with all the serial numbers of each instrument ( so if I wanna come back to chile and didn't needed to pay tax ) but continental airlines replied to me saying that this documents were not legal and finally they offer me 20 dollars per kg; total 640 dollars.( according to 1 baggage missed, 32 kgs)
> With these money I was not able to buy one of the "missing pieces".
> I also have to say that this mad situation put me in a very bad feeling way, so sad. everynight before sleep was a nightmare.
> Because I left my country chile with the idea of travel and make music, I arrived to europe with empty hands, can you imagine?....It took me like 1 year to put myself ok. and slowly slowly buy again my instruments.
> Now it's around 12 years of this incident, I got new stuff ( not the same one), I'm still living in europe , everything it's normal right now.
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> Yes, I know , why I didn't made an insurance before travelling?
> I never could imagine that something like this can happen to me, because I never thought how can indiference can be an airline company with their customers.
> Sorry guys for these long history, even I made it short, but I know how each one of us really loves and take care about his instruments, this feeling it's hard to explain because it's similar to the feeling that one have to a loved person, and it's unique.
> I hope the company airlines, in a nearly future, take in count that musicians need an special treatment with their stuff.
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> From: alessandro <alefisc@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Carrying instruments on airplanes - this is cool and very relevant!
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Received: Tuesday, 28 September, 2010, 11:56 AM
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
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> http://www.carbonfibercases.com/Guitar_cases.php
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---Miles Ward
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