Category Archives: Travel

Japan Airlines offers free guitar boxes to ease travelling musicians’ worries | RocketNews24

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This is more like it. Makes me want to fly to Japan more! Contrast previous posts here and here

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“For outgoing instrument service, we offer small and large instrument cases to support our customers on trips with important instruments. Now in response to customer feedback we have dispatched guitar sized cases (137cm x 44cm x 21cm) to all airports offering domestic flights. Until now, in such a case you would have to check it as fragile baggage, but from now you can ask for our guitar-exclusive case. JAL will continue to provide you with the best possible service in the future.” image

Japan Airlines offers free guitar boxes to ease travelling musicians’ worries | RocketNews24.

Chengdu – a new centre of guitar activity in China?

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If you haven’t come across him yet, Kuang Junhong is a 13 year old genius who plays the guitar with wonderful musicality. His teacher Xu Bao invited me over to Chengdu (in Sichuan Province) last month and I had the pleasure of teaching Junhong and many others of his talented pupils (as well as eating some fine Sichuan food – mostly mouth-numbingly spicy). There will be a few other young guitarists from this part of China you will eventually hear about. Continue reading →