Posted on 09/10/2006 8:02:03 PM PDT by Westlander
A group of top classical musicians has warned of the threat to artistic life from a hand baggage ban introduced after police foiled an alleged bomb plot against transatlantic airliners.
Many performers refuse to let their instruments, often centuries old and extremely valuable, out of their sight when they travel on planes in case they are damaged in the hold.
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Nobody cries when you cut up an oboe.
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LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
With a hacksaw.
I'm all for them too. The TSA is rapidly becoming less of a nuisance and more of a parody of itself.
Q: How do you keep your violin from getting stolen?
A: Put it in a viola case.
Q: Christopher Hogwood, Daniel Barenboim, and Neville Mariner are all on the same plane when it ditches in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Who is saved?
A: Mozart
'Très amusant.' - MineralMan
A string quartet.
What's the difference between a baritone saxophone and a chain saw?
-The exhaust.
That's when you throw an accordian into a dumpster and it dosen't hit the sides.
Thank a Muslim. Need I say more?
A chainsaw has dynamic range and you can turn it off.
What do you call the wreck of a junior high band equipment truck?
A good start.
Why is a bassoon better than an oboe?
The bassoon burns longer.
OK, I'm tough. You can hit me with soprano, piano or flute jokes in return. ;-)
I gotta say, I'm with you on this one. Musical instruments are valuable and fragile. Leaving out the abusive handling that checked baggage gets, airlines lose about 1% of checked luggage to start with. They find about 90% later, but there is a certain finite and not too low probability that you'll never see your checked luggage again.
What happens at after-school rehearsals of a high school woodwind quintet?
Group groping...Well, not always...
What do violinists use for birth control?
Their personality.
"Why is a bassoon better than an oboe? "
It's not. Both are ill winds that nobody blows good.
LOL - my dad studied classical accordion - and played jazz on it in a USO band during WW II. He was actually quite good at the instrument..... hated playing 3-chord polkas in fact - "too harmonically boring".
I was just talking about that with a coworker last week. I'm just waiting for the nude flights. :) Yikes! I think it would attract more of certain people to flying and a lot less of others. Airlines better be careful because things like this drive good customers away.
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