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Top Cellist’s Bow is Damaged by US Airport Security — by Paul Katz

Here is the latest travel outrage! Personally, I have never let a security agent handle my instrument and have developed a standard speech that so far, has always worked: "Sorry sir/madam, this instrument is extremely valuable and fragile and that is why I don't check it in baggage. I'm glad to open and close the case for you and let you inspect it thoroughly. But I will hold the instrument for you. If you need to touch the wood, please take off your ring, and be careful your fingernails don't scratch the varnish." That seems to impress them enough that they behave! —Paul Katz Top Cellist's Bow is Damaged: Alban Gerhardt Calls Airport Security Staff "Brutal and Careless". Reprinted from The Strad - Friday, 08 February 2013 Photo: courtesy [...]

By Paul Katz|2019-05-29T01:47:58-04:00February 12th, 2013|Categories: Cello Travel|Tags: careless, outrage, air travel, air security staff, O’Hare International Airport, Alban Gerhardt, rare cello bow, Travel, bow snapped over bridge, security check, TSA, broken cello bow, security officers, cello bridge, brutal, snapped cello bow, plane, damaged bow, Transportation Security Administration workers, varnish, damaged instrument, cello, US Airways, cellist, forced the case shut, cellobello, security, handling instruments, Katz, cello bow, Heinrich Knopf, Paul|

Cello Is My Co-Pilot (Part 2) — by Jeffrey Zeigler

I am, of course, a cellist writing to other cellists. So discussing the torment that we all have to go through when we travel with our instruments is, naturally, preaching to the choir. In fact, I wrote a blog post here on CelloBello a few years ago on the topic hoping to give some helpful tips to cellists (Cello Is My Co-Pilot). And in addition to my post, there are quite a few individuals that have written many extremely helpful articles and blogs geared at helping cellists all over the world deal with the hassles of travel. The information is definitely out there to know the basic guidelines that should be followed in order to handle pretty much 99% of the situations that one will face during air travel. So [...]

By Jeffrey Zeigler|2017-10-30T05:19:02-04:00November 1st, 2012|Categories: Cello Travel|Tags: policies, security, FAA, Jeffrey, Travel, TSA, Zeigler, WestJet, travel with instruments, airline regulations|

Travails of Travel with a Cello

Airlines can be sticky about these instruments, no matter how rare and valuable (Excerpted with permission from OttawaCitizen.com) Don’t tell Pinchas Zukerman, but Amanda Forsyth has another man in her life. His name is Carlo. He’s Italian, 300 years old, about four feet tall and made of wood. On second thought, Zukerman has probably met this guy. He lives in a special carbon fibre case in the home he shares with Forsyth. Carlo is, after all, a cello and a very expensive one at that, having been made by Carlo Giuseppe Testore in 1699 and being worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. That all makes Forsyth pretty protective of old Carlo, her nickname for her instrument. “He’s my other husband,” she says. “Whenever I go to Italy, I always open [...]

By Blogmaster|2018-11-19T02:36:24-05:00October 14th, 2012|Categories: Cello Travel|Tags: baggage, WestJet, air travel, checked baggage, airlines, security, Pinchas, safety, Zukerman, Travel, Boccherini, travel with an instrument, stress, flights, musical instruments|