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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/arts/ ... ei=5087%0A

Kyle

Damn.

"If you outlaw violas, then only the outlaws will have violas... "

No disrespect intended, but perhaps it is good for violinists and others with small instruments to put up with the same issues we do, at least temporarily. Maybe it will help them to better understand the issues we deal with on a daily basis.
Maybe not.

I believe that wooden instruments have problems with cargo holds that are not temperature controlled. And since their instruments can easily cost 10 times as much as ours, they should be 10 times as concerned with damage or theft.

You sound angry...

We shouldn't be mad at the Violinist, we should be mad at the stupid terrorist that cause all of these problems. I think we should direct the blame and anger there, instead of towards a fellow musician, regardless of the instrument they chose.

BradParrish wrote:We shouldn't be mad at the Violinist, we should be mad at the stupid terrorist that cause all of these problems. I think we should direct the blame and anger there instead of towards a fellow musician, regardless of the instrument they chose.

Which one of the terrorists is "the stupid terrorist" mentioned above? It seems to me there must be more than one stupid terrorist. At least that seems logical to me.

My apologies for forgetting to pluralize the word terrorist(s).

Why do people feel the need to correct other's simple grammatical errors? Maybe that's why I haven't posted on here very often.

I don't think that it was a "grammer" correction nearly as much as a "syntax" correction.

Just playing....

That's why they shouldn't have offered Language Arts and Band at the same time at my middle school.

Guess which one I chose?

Yo! How can tubists spend their time correcting each other when there are still violists, er, I mean, terrorists out there?

Now, do you really feel the er was the best choice of words? I believe you may have been looking for "um!"

I will always yield to someone who even has access to an M-16A2...

UM SIR!

BradParrish wrote:My apologies for forgetting to pluralize the word terrorist(s).
Why do people feel the need to correct other's simple grammatical errors? Maybe that's why I haven't posted on here very often.

Just so you know, you can post or not post, as you wish. That's entirely up to you. If your feelings are hurt so easily by someone just having a little fun, then you may not want to post. I assure you my little "correction" is tame by TubeNet standards.

If it will make you feel any better, I will apologize for having fun with your post. Your failure to use the plural made the statement sound funny to me, and that is the reason I responded the way I did. I wasn't trying to cut you down.

"Syntax"? Is there anything the government won't try to tax?

I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition!

(nobody expects the spanish inquisition.)

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

SpartanContra wrote:btw we played the Monty Python theme (liberty bell march)

As long as you put the SPLAT! in the appropriate place...

Interesting. I see a business opportunity here for the right person, in the small-ish group air charter business. Not just "any old charter plane" but one that caters specifically to musical groups, church groups, whatever groups, who want to go somewhere and not have to put up with commercial airlines or the TSA. More specialized than your run-of-the-mill charter business. Like companies that specialize in moving pianos; my brother used one of those to both pack up and move the six-foot Steinway he moved from Indianapolis to Seattle some years ago. No way would he have called and used a "regular, commercial" moving van company.

Orchestras with sometimes priceless instruments (have you priced a top-level stringed instrument recently?) who go on tour, would jump at the chance for a reasonably priced charter service, that is smaller and more specialized than a jumbo jet charter service. I bet someone, somewhere, in the not too distant future, will have a business that comes into being precisely because of the hassles of commercial air travel. Then all they'll have to do is make sure that they don't accept a charter from Al Queda.

Maybe I'm howling in the wind unknowing of the financial cost of such a venture, but I'm really curious anyway.

MA