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Old Sep 15, 2004 | 5:51 am
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Originally Posted by grouse
# Musical instruments will be handled very carefully and screeners will allow the owner to be as involved as possible in any physical screening.
# As a final resort, if the screener cannot clear an instrument through the x-ray and/or physical search, the owner may be asked to play the instrument.

http://www.tsa.gov/public/interapp/e...orial_1235.xml

Now that's something I'd like to see!

This ever been done at your checkpoints, TSA folks?
I think it's pretty funny actually. I know some avant garde musicians who play things that the average TSAer wouldn't be able to distinguish from noise, on instruments that look particularly un-instrumental. Giving the TSA a judgement call on this sounds like it could be hilarious.

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