<p>I looked into shipping separately and I think it would be super expensive. </p>
<p>Right now, I am just waiting for Banff to tell me if they’re going to be able to rent me a bass. It isn’t ideal, but it does make travel far easier.</p>
<p>My son has flown with his cello in a Stevenson blobby case to Europe and back many times, to Taiwan, S; Korea, and slogged it across the U.S. in great variety of airplanes and bumped it around in the underbelly of buses. He’s no longer surprised to find it in tune when he opens the case. The Stevenson folks are magnificent, great sense of humor, kind, just the sort of people you want to do business with. There’s sometimes a wait to get a case…well worth the investment, we think.</p>
<p>CLRN8MOM: promise I’m not ■■■■■■■■…it was a VERY small commuter plane…yep…my first born right under the set in front of me…She didn’t seem to mind…Best I remember it was only during take off and landing…She’s now 21 so memory is fading.</p>
<p>Thought of all you cello/bass players today…On plane from Boston to Washington DC…there was a cello with its own seat…Heard one flight attendant ask another if it had to be belted in …Answer was an obvious yes…then had to wait for them to get an extension for the seat belt so that could be accomplished before we could take off.</p>