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Subject: [Hornlist] Gig Bag
quick recommendations for a gig bag to take on an airplane?
Holton cut bell case
Hi Kim-
When I bought my (Holton)Millennium Merker in 2000, it came with a
square hard case that had been especially measured designed to fit
into one of those
Kim
If it's of any help, I just came back from a flight on which I brought a
horn with me into the cabin. I flew on a Lufthansa Airbus 340 and was
allowed to bring the horn into the cabin and it fit into the middle overhead
compartment quite comfortably. On a Boeing 737 flight, the case wouldn't
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Subject: [Hornlist] Gig Bag
quick recommendations for a gig bag to take
to check my horn or
suffered any damages following those rules.
Sincerely,
C
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Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Airline-Compliant Case-Holton Millenium Merker
Date: Fri, 30 Jun
Hello -
On a recent band trip to New York, one of our trombonists
managed to carry her trombone (in the standard (large) brown Bach
trombone case) onto the airplane! That case is about 36 inches by 12
inches by 10 inches (very rough estimates)! None of the check in
personel, flight
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Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Airline-Compliant Case-Holton Millenium Merker
The dimensions for the on-boad-case are regulated
internationally. They are 22 x 16 x 8 inches or 55 x 40 x 20
cms. If the flat
Fred Baucom wrote:
Here in the U.S. in the latter part of 2002, the musicians union
(AFM) here worked out an arrangement with the U.S. Dept. of
Transportation, so that now you should be able to declare you are
carrying a musical instrument and security and flight personnel are
supposed to honor
At 1:29 PM -0700 6/30/06, Fred Baucom wrote:
Couple of caviats - this arrangement was worked out for professional
(union) musicians, and I have not traveled with my horn since that
time, so I do not know if airport personnel will ask for union id.
No ID required in my single experience, and
hello-
About the flying with Horns on airlines- I have had both good and bad
luck with my non-cut bell flying in and out of JKF and elsewhere. If
you get past the security checkpoint by not calling attention to how it
is too large (holding in awkardly between you legs or down low near the
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