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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 deafrose58 > 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 > www.looproom.com internet music hub > |