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2014-01-04 -Land of the Free

U.S. Customs destroys renowned musician's rare flutes.

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Vandals.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-01-04 01:48|| 2014-01-04 01:48|| Front Page Top

Destroyed, or sent elsewhere ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-04 04:09|| 2014-01-04 04:09|| Front Page Top

#3 More likely the TSA offical was pissed that there wasn't anything to steal - so he broke the 'reeds'.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-01-04 06:24|| 2014-01-04 06:24|| Front Page Top

#4 So the A-hole bureaucrats don't even have the common decency of an apology?
When they die... piss on their graves.

Posted by 3dc 2014-01-04 06:41|| 2014-01-04 06:41|| Front Page Top

#5 There's an update at the bottom. looks like the flutes were nicked.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-01-04 07:50|| 2014-01-04 07:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Banned item to import. Never talked to the guy just destroyed them.Hand made for upcoming performance that may now be canceled.

Posted by Dale 2014-01-04 09:20|| 2014-01-04 09:20|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd better leave my Stradivari home next time...

Posted by European Conservative 2014-01-04 09:30|| 2014-01-04 09:30|| Front Page Top

#8 ...US Fish and Wildlife Service -v- Gibson Guitar redux...Zamfir had better watch his six...

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-01-04 10:56|| 2014-01-04 10:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Nothing to do with the Gibson case of course:

Grossly underreported at the time was the fact that Gibsons chief executive, Henry Juszkiewicz, contributed to Republican politicians. Recent donations have included $2,000 to Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and $1,500 to Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn, the editorial reads.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-04 11:00|| 2014-01-04 11:00|| Front Page Top

#10 With any luck this is just the first of a long series of misfortunes sent by the Almighty to punish the Boston Camerata for their avid promotion of pan-Mediterranean New Age noodling. /half-kidding

Love early music. Love most every oriental vernacular music. Moonbeam mishmash and its cultural and revisionist baggage, not so much. But I'm in awe seeing the 'burg unanimously behind the little Arab dude with his reed flutes. I swear I can feel various bigotries crackling and crumbling off of me every time I browse through here.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-01-04 22:23|| 2014-01-04 22:23|| Front Page Top

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