Ohh boo friggin hooo being an "artistic type' is soooo hard wah wah wah.
Yea, fault the western musicians who don't want to sacrifice 300 years + of western christian music tradition based on muslim produced fear. I am all for these musicians.
Not a lot of chamber music gets to your trailer park, does it?
So you prefer to have a ban on carry-on luggage as opposed to ban on terrorists?
It'd be safer to simply ban Muslims from flying...
...instead of allowing Muslims to fly, but banning anything that could possibly ever be used to fashion any sort of item that could ever be considered harmful.
This reminds me of a story I read about the Chicago Symphony Orchestra travelling to Vienna back in the '20s or '30s...the violinists were refused entry to their hotel because of the fact that they were carrying violin cases, which all the movies of the time showed Chicago gangsters carrying around to tote their tommy guns!
"Ohh boo friggin hooo being an "artistic type' is soooo hard wah wah wah."
Give it a rest, OK? I've travelled as a musician, carrying an oboe that I paid more than $5000 for. Would I put it in checked luggage? Never.
A friend of mine on the same trip had a cello worth over $100,000. She paid for a seat on the plane for it.
Use some common sense before you post, OK?
Yeah, well........spoken as a non-musician, bud.
I'd never, EVER check my Les Paul Custom, let alone a three hundred year old violin. It'd be insanity.
"A group of top classical musicians has warned of the threat to artistic life
Ohh boo friggin hooo being an "artistic type' is soooo hard wah wah wah."
Read the article. It is about protecting sometimes priceless instruments.
Many times people with valuable posessions manage their risks of loss by not surrending posession.
One would think Lyndsey Lohan would have preferred to keep her hands on her purse in hindsight.
"Ohh boo friggin hooo being an "artistic type' is soooo hard wah wah wah."
Let's say you were a productive, accomplished professional. And that you plied your craft, which has taken your whole life to learn, and that you must continue to learn and practice at, in cities all over the world. Let's say the "tool" you use is very rare or even one-of-a-kind, and is worth high-five figures or more. You cannot make your living without it, yet you are forced to stow it with the surfers' duffel bags, where it can easily be stolen--as indeed, these things are stolen all the time. Let's say you object.
Are you throwing a tantrum, or speaking up for common sense and the right to earn a living?
You might be surprised to find out how many classical musicians are conservative--look what it takes: constant devotion to a craft; you are responsible for your own progress and success; if you make a mistake, especially in a concert, you are the one responsible, etc....
Just because people don't walk around with a torque wrench in their hand doesn't mean they're effete, worthless libs.
Well, lets ask the question: Would you "check" your centuries old - priceless - Stradivarius violin in baggage, or would you insist on holding on to it?
I would like you to let out of your sight a $20,000 investment in the hands of incompetents.
Hopefully my band's going to Europe in the summer of 2007. My guitar player went there with a band in 1999 and he carried on his high dollar stuff in a case that could be stored in the overhead. Leaving it to baggage is asking for theft.
You may be interested to know that them high-falutin' "violins" also make damn fine fiddles...in case you got a hankerin' to do some foot-stompin' honkytonkin...
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Many musicians would rather rent instruments when they get to the gig than try to get their $10,000+ baggage there through the public transportation system. It's tough that not all instruments sound the same, not even Strats, so if the sound is going to make the trip, the instrument must also.