Corb Lund's album Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer contains a song (Big ..... Butch Bull Fiddle), dedicated to his double bassist.

It refers to this very problem:

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i gotta buy an extra seat when i ride the airplane
or the women and the children and the pilot complain
cuz it sure don’t fit in the overhead bin
and leavin her behind is bassically a sin

yes, leavin her behind might save a little space
and i ain't no slouch on the electrical bass
but somethin kinda happens when the f-holes sing
with the snappin and the poppin of the flat wound strings

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