Arne Keller wrote: > I just heard that Pinchas Zuckerman was prohibited from taking his > Strad > along as hand luggage in > an airport in Atlanta, for security reasons: The strings might be used > as > deadly attack weapons.
If so, it would be the first time in a long time that Zuckerman used his strings for an attack worth mentioning. > Is this the end of free exchange of professional music? > > Has any lute player as of yet been harassed in a similar way? Yes, oddly enough: the airlines have always told me I couldn't stash my theorbo under the seat. > A born pessimist, when I was going to Glasgow some years ago, I had > arranged to borrow an instrument > there, rather than let my own dear instrument suffer the temperature > and > pressure drop in the luggage > compartment. The temperature and pressure problems are greatly exaggerated in the popular imagination. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
