Reckless risk taking.
While taking the plane after a concert given in Vilnius on February 8, the Polish violinist Janusz Wawrovski had to give up his trip.
In question ?
A misadventure with the Polish airline PLL LOT.
During baggage check-in, an employee told the musician that his violin could not be considered as cabin baggage.
He instructs him to register his instrument so that he can go to the hold of the plane.
The deposit is already questionable for a modern instrument;
it is unacceptable for Janusz Wawrovski who travels with a Stradivarius from 1685. The violin baptized “Polonia” is estimated at 5 million euros and belongs to the Polish State.
The musician, indignant, finally chose to return from Lithuania by bus, his violin under his arm.
“PLL LOT wouldn't let me board my plane to Warsaw with my violin on Saturday.
I couldn't go home after my concert in Vilnius
,” the musician annoyed in a post on his Facebook account.
Janus Wawrowski on Facebook
In a publication on his Facebook account, the musician was annoyed by the situation.
“The lady from the airline said to me,
'We'll see if the instrument is damaged in the hold'
(literally).
When I told her that I had traveled for years with different companies always having my violin with me and that I had come to Vilnius with the same company, she didn't want to hear anything, he says
.
In several hundred flights, I have never been forbidden to take my violin with me on the plane.
And to be annoyed by the incomprehension that musicians regularly encounter, according to him, when they have to travel with their instruments.
According to the
Huffington Post
, it is even convenient that some cellists, when their instrument exceeds the dimensions of ordinary cabin luggage, pay for a second ticket to take it with them on the plane.
“An instrument is not just a tool.
It's an extension of the musician's body, we spend hundreds or even thousands of hours with.
Obviously, a violin almost 340 years old, made by the most famous violin maker in history, is worth too much to travel in the hold.
Apparently it's not for everyone."
, explained Janusz Wawrovski, still on his Facebook account.
The musician was finally forced to return by bus.
At first the company even refused to refund his plane ticket.
Before changing his mind, after the musician told his story on social networks.
She finally apologized for the inappropriate behavior of her
"inexperienced"
employee , and promised the violinist to reimburse his two journeys, by plane and by bus.