The Best Way to Avoid Damaging Your Violin in the Baggage Hold
2018-04-01 4:05 pm
We may have heard lots of news about violins and other musical instruments which did not survive inside aircrafts’ baggage hold. Many musicians had experienced and seen the horrible fate of their in...
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2018-03-27 2:24 pm
Flying with musical instruments is now one of the musicians’ nightmares. Sara Avery a violinist based in Colorado sorrowfully posted a severely broken violin on Facebook. It was one of the many ...
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2018-01-06 11:24 am
Swedish violinist Christian Svarfvar thought he could escape from the terror of endangering his Stradivari by taking a train; he never thought that this would happen to him. He was supposed to take a ...
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2018-01-03 11:34 am
The European Spirit of Youth Orchestra was enjoying their summer tour when an incident that they were not expecting to happen hindered their enjoyment. Nineteen of their members had sleepless nights w...
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2017-12-30 3:26 am
Rachel Roberts, a viola soloist who made several international tours posted a call for musicians saying. “Support the arts, don’t fly with British Airways!” this was included in her 1,000-word p...
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2017-12-29 9:35 am
A violin student of the Royal Academy of Music in London thought she had spared her violin from aircraft luggage trouble. Understanding the risk of taking a 17-seater plane, she decides to leave her p...
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2017-10-13 11:15 pm
We may think that renowned artists like Picasso and Stravinsky lived a serious life, maybe because of the remarkable artistry that they display. However, not all happenings are serious though; they ha...
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2017-06-25 11:09 pm
Air Canada receives The International Federation of Musicians (FIM) airline of choice award this 2017. A body of more than 60 different countries launched the award representing musicians along with t...
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2017-06-25 8:16 pm
The violist of Ulysses Quartet Colin Brookes had a problem boarding his viola on the plane because it was not allowed by the Aircraft to be stowed in the cabin. The All Nippon Airways told them that t...
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2017-06-09 5:33 am
Carol Slater reported that her stolen three-hundred-year-old violin on end of March. Carol’s father gave the 1700 Matteo Goffriller violin as a gift over 40 years ago. However, now, someone stole it...
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2017-06-08 2:26 pm
The Vienna Symphony Orchestra violist Michael Buchmann argued with teenagers and ended up breaking his finger at the metro station. The incident happened when the 48-year-old violist returned home fro...
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2017-06-04 6:54 pm
A double bass student named Pablo Escobar of Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence had his double bass broken during his flight from Ecuador to Italy. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines took responsibility f...
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