Can you carry music instrument on plane?

Answer 1

There's been an awful lot of fuss about this since security got tightened up. Before 9/11, violinists used to take their instruments into the cabin with them, and many cellists would actually book a seat for theirs. After all, you don't pay a million dollars for a wooden item built in the seventeenth century and then willingly see it packed into an unheated, unpressurised hold. When the airlines started refusing instrument cases in cabins (after all, violin cases hold machine guns as often as not, don't they?, many musicians refused to travel by air. This led to all sorts of compromise arrangements and a grand inconsistency between carriers. So the answer is - ask the airline you're boking with.