Steve, as the man whom the Blessed 'Spaw immortalised in verse as "a total flake" I am in no position to call anyone else barmy (no, it doesn't stop me...)! What am I doing reading this thread anyway? I don't own a guitar and I don't think they do hard cases for kazoos! I do wince when I see fellow travellers asking for their instruments to be hand loaded, they never seem to be hand-unloaded and I've seen suitcases fall off trolleys in the past (some of the drivers of the luggage "trains" seem to be Schumachers-manque).
RtS