Friday 25 August 2006

An interesting conversation with David G last night. BAA, the airports authority here, has specifically banned violins and cellos from being carried onto planes. Related news stories are here, here and here. Chris somehow managed to carry his flutes on to a UK flight from San Diego last weekend, oddly enough. But DG is going to borrow a violin on this side of the Atlantic for his trip next week (thanks Ruth!). If we're to keep working together, he's going to have to have a violin on this side of the ocean. Now that's a serious bit of investment to have to make for an ludicrously draconian security rule. Is there any evidence that terrorists have ever been minded to conceal high explosive in valuable antiques? Is anyone with any influence from the music industry talking to government about this?