Post 911 air travel with Tin Whistles
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I haven't yet had a problem with my whistles.
They are more interested in my fencing equipment/tools . Alot of it comes up looking like black boxes, batteries and lots of wiring.
Ive seen the xray screen. I'd stop and take a look too.
They are more interested in my fencing equipment/tools . Alot of it comes up looking like black boxes, batteries and lots of wiring.
Ive seen the xray screen. I'd stop and take a look too.
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I've made several trips with a Dixon aluminum tunable in a Jean Caravello flute bag with a Seery delrin flute, and no one has ever said boo to me.
I was told while going thru once with my trombone (in a gigbag slung over my shoulder, not a regular case) that "you'll have to check your golf clubs". This was before I even got to the x-ray machine belt. I told her it was a trombone and she made sure to follow it in the process until she saw it on the screen, then shook her head and wondered off. This was before 9/11 though.
I was told while going thru once with my trombone (in a gigbag slung over my shoulder, not a regular case) that "you'll have to check your golf clubs". This was before I even got to the x-ray machine belt. I told her it was a trombone and she made sure to follow it in the process until she saw it on the screen, then shook her head and wondered off. This was before 9/11 though.
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Usually, if I'm carrying a whistle bag, it goes through X-ray, but if I'm carrying a single whistle, i've always just put it in the "key tray" for pocket items.
That's always been fine (granted, this was post 9-11) except in Denver, where the old security coot made me put a sweetone through the X-ray machine.
That's always been fine (granted, this was post 9-11) except in Denver, where the old security coot made me put a sweetone through the X-ray machine.
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I just went through security in Detroit, to London Gatwick, to Inverness with my bag full of whistles, last week, without even a question about them. I took two low d's , a flute, and several other keys. They went through the x-ray, and that was it.
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A bit of advice concerning whistles at the airport -- If they pull your bag for a manual search, ask them to put on clean gloves, or they'll be handling your whistles with the same gloves they just used to rummage through someone else's dirty underwear. If they flip you any crap, ask for a supervisor and patiently explain that you have whistles in your bag and that you have to put them in your mouth and you'd rather they not taste like the previous person's skivvies. Unless of course, you're into that kind of thing.
Or just cut your hair and dress like a bidnessman, and the odds are you'll sail right on through.
If you are white, that is.
Or just cut your hair and dress like a bidnessman, and the odds are you'll sail right on through.
If you are white, that is.
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Yeah, go know when the Security folks will show any interest in your whistles. In May I went to and from Arizona by air and the 12 to 15 whistles I had in my back pack--in a bundle yet--did not elicit inquiry of any kind on either leg of the trip. Flying to Europe last week, the inspector at JFK examined each one with care--even looking down the barrel of each one. Much to my chagrin, there was no interest in hearing me play. Normally, someone has to have heard me play at least once before they decline!
On the way back from Europe (Amsterdam), not a peep or any interest whatsoever. Go know.
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On the way back from Europe (Amsterdam), not a peep or any interest whatsoever. Go know.
Tom D.
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I have had similar experiences to those related. They almost always look at them in Tulsa and NEVER know what they are. Once only weeks post 9-11 I was asked to play and I think I played boys of the town and people in line smiled and clapped along with the guards.
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When I traveled with my hammered dulcimer recently, EVERY security person asked if it was a harp. I think that's the only multi-stringed instrument that most people know, so when they see all those strings on the X-ray, they guess that it's a harp. On other occasions (not traveling), I've had people look at the dulcimer case and ask if it was a massage table!! Do massage tables fold up into a trapezoidal shape?Ro3b wrote:Whistles, pfft. You haven't lived till you've traveled with an accordion.
I've never had a security screener ask about my whistle, but I always travel with my PVC Silkstone D. Since it isn't metal, I don't think they find it threatening. (HA! If they heard me attempt to play, they'd probably quiver in fear. )
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