United Airlines Staff Brawl With Violinist in ‘Wrestling Match’ After Insistence She Check Her Instrument
8th June 2017
For the small fraternity of people who make their living coaxing musical notes out of vulnerable pieces of wood and metal, few things are more terrifying than seeing an expensive, defenceless instrument disappear on that little conveyor belt at the airport.
Horror stories abound. A musician checked his $45,000, 75-year-old cello, which airport workers promptly placed beneath somebody’s golf clubs, snapping its neck. A noted German soloist said airport workers roughed up his cello case. After his flight, he found his $20,000 bow broken in half. A Florida State University music student on a flight to Tallahassee found splinters of wood where her cello used to be.
Those stories and many, many more have converged into an unwritten musician’s rule: Never trust an airline with your instrument.
Anybody who flies United is an idiot and deserves the fruits of idiocy.
June 8th, 2017 at 09:14
Biolinist?!?
June 8th, 2017 at 09:43
Sorry. I have a cold.
June 8th, 2017 at 12:50
, you also left “Sfter” in place of “After”
Get some Cold-eze or generic stuff with zinc. I find that it greatly cuts down the length of time I have a cold.
June 9th, 2017 at 03:57
Drunk is a different condition that costs more and feels better.
June 9th, 2017 at 14:00
Murdering the language is not a crime. Arguably, it should be, but it isn’t yet.