>>I've had much better luck carrying my cello around on my back, though. >> Hong Meiling, I'm not. > >I would be incredibly paranoid about carrying around something so >expensive but also fragile on my back. Or anywhere else, really, but >especially on my back. >
Friend of mine is a fairly serious cellist who has taken them - yes, plural! because I don't know sane people - on aircraft before. Apparently the best way to manage this is to buy your cello a seat.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea