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Thread #148922 Message #3462453
Posted By: PHJim
06-Jan-13 - 11:51 PM
Thread Name: another mangled instrument
Subject: RE: another mangled instrument
This happens more often than we might expect. They don't all get this much publicity.
I have a friend who had the headstock of a beautiful Fulawka pedal steel guitar broken off on an airline conveyer belt.
My son had three days of panic while the airline tried to track down where his bass had disappeared to.
An article in Guitar Player magazine many years ago about the hazards of flying with instruments told of Chet Atkins watching, through the window of the plane as an airline employee stole his guitar. He said he didn't mind losing the guitar so much because Gibson would give him another, but he'd just shelled out a pile of money for the flight case it was in.
Barney Kessel always purchased an extra seat for Mr. Guitar.