Thursday 5 October 2006

One un-trivial matter arising from going to Pittsburgh last weekend concerned the very visible signs everywhere at checkin announcing Continental's new weight restrictions on baggage. If I'm going to take my harmonium with me to Canada next week in its new red flight case (arriving tomorrow), it's going to be over the weight limit. Hmm. So this morning I completely dismantled it and discovered that the action will fit into my huge old red suitcase - ironically, the one that Continental dented severely a couple of years ago - reducing its weight by 5kg. It doesn't leave me much room for my stuff in the suitcase and it does seem a bit perverse to have a serious foamlined fitted flightcase for the wooden box, and a dodgy old suitcase and some bubblewrap for the delicate mechanism, but anyway ... I'll weigh it all again tomorrow in the new case and see what the chances are of me being allowed to take it on the plane. But now I'd better do some thinking about the music.

1953 Estey organ minus its innards; its innards as unconventional luggage