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Re: [Doepfer_a100] a-100p's on a plane!

2006-12-06 by James Husted

About 15~20 years ago, before all this security, I was doing some  
session work in San Francisco and was late getting to my flight home.  
I had to run all the way to the gate and carry on all my gear. At the  
time I had a AKS, a home built 4-rank Sequencer and a Roland 808 drum  
machine with me. Then you could see the video display of all stuff as  
it was being x-rayed. The AKS looked like a mass of wires and circuit  
board traces. The knob caps and pots showed as different colors (I  
assume density differences). The Sequencer and 808 were in a suitcase  
together and showed up as a completely black box. Here is the sign of  
the then times - they didn't even ask me to open them up! They just  
asked what they were! Bring some headphones with you and get ready to  
turn it on and play it for them now days. And for Gods sake don't  
make ANY kind of jokes about it.

-James

On Dec 6, 2006, at 7:28 AM, surachai sutthisasanakul wrote:

> I know this has been an ongoing discussion but I have not found a  
> straight forward answer. Is
> it possible to fly around with an A-100p case as carry-on luggage?  
> I imagine the hold up at
> security because of the wires, metal and general shadyness of the  
> equipment.
> This particular situation will be a national flight, but also would  
> like to know for international
> flights.
> Any information would help out a lot. Thanks!
> -surachai.
>
>
> 


James Husted
The ErsatZ Planet Graphics and Sound
http://homepage.mac.com/ersatzplanet/
james.husted@mac.com

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