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Thats worse then sad it is a outright reason too for the airline too pay him for another guitar,it is outrages,a 65 gibson 335 is a real beauty.
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ouch! Clearly the guitar wasn't packed for being placed in baggage... it would have been a surprise if it wouldn't have sustained any damage just from being tossed around, forget the terrible circumstances. Here he was willing to buy a seat for his guit, and instead they demolished it. very very sad.
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It is not unusual for guitars to be damaged from baggage handlers. That is why they have travel cases. But- I don`t think a travel case would have done much good in that incident.
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Thbe airline sucks,, 1900 are you kidding? idd be going for lost value! but on the musicians part,,, If I had a guitar worth 10G's It would be in a Anvil case. built for punishment! but as was looking around for an example I found this,
http://www.acousticguitar.com/article/d … leid=25801 from acoustic mag.
That is why Im decided on if I do make it to the chordie stock,, im shipping everything UPS a week or so prior. (and bringing my bang around road weary guitar)
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*** UPDATE ***
The situation has been resolved: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/de … 19266.html
Delta is paying for the guitar, but the coolest part is that Gibson came through with an offer for repairs on the guitar, as well as an offer for a new one. Gibson rocks.
I'm not a big fan of social media, but when a story like this spreads because of social media and the negative fallout for a company forces the company to do the right thing in spite of themselves, then maybe social media has its purpose.
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Well I hope they don't bust up my Breedlove when I head to Chordiestock. I don't earn anything with it but smiles or sometimes getting people to clap hands over their ears and run away, but I'd be awfully put out. I'll have it in a hard case and hope that they'll let me gate check it instead of baggage check it.
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Zurf wrote:
Well I hope they don't bust up my Breedlove when I head to Chordiestock. I don't earn anything with it but smiles or sometimes getting people to clap hands over their ears and run away, but I'd be awfully put out. I'll have it in a hard case and hope that they'll let me gate check it instead of baggage check it.
Why would they clap their hands over their ears? I already squeezed all the bad notes out of that guitar before you bought it.
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Hopefully, all the airlines will learn a lesson from this. Just the bad publicity should be enough to wake them up.
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Awesome of Gibson to step up like that. I can't believe that the guitar could be salvaged. From the pics, the case looked totally crushed. Cool ending to a sad story.
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