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Location: south east Michigan | guitar passports??
. http://news.yahoo.com/us-proposes-musical-instrument-passports-114251622.html |
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Location: Tennessee | Just bring 'em in through California. They let anything and everything come across the border without a problem.
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Location: Denver, CO | I know a guy in Brownsville... Seriously! We got people strapping on bombs and going to the movies with a car full of guns! Kim-Jong Un wants to start a war, and Iran wants to nuke Israel. Greece can't pay their bills (and neither can the US), there's no Pope, and bloody hell! There's about to be another heir to the throne of England! Of all the things we need to focus on in this world! Sounds like a new descriptive for T-A-X to me. "Ashe said he was not aware of any cases of international customs agents seizing instruments, and if it has happened, it's been extremely rare. But..." And what follows sounds as if this whole idea arose because Gibson has a systemic problem with documenting their exotic materials? |
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Location: sitting at my computer | dwg preacher - 2013-03-09 1:03 PM Sounds like a new descriptive for T-A-X to me. ka-ching! hmm, d'ya think they'll appoint a guitar czar?!  |
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Location: New Bern, NC | OMG, so Brazilian rosewood is a no no? I guess I won't be traveling with my classical guitar out of the country. Who am I kidding? I rarely gig with my classical guitar anyway, much less out of the country. LOL. I have taken my Ovation 1619 to the UK twice though. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | But Lyrachord isn't on the endangered species list... yet.
(Fender is doing its best to make it so...) |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I know I'm kindofa glass is half full guy, but I think this has some value added benefits for those who do travel. First and foremost, if the instrument has a passport, it's tracked. If something happens to it in travel, or for that matter at the destination, there is no question that you had it, brought, what it's made of etc.. and that might help for insurance purposes if something does go wrong. It'a a heckofalot better than leaving the decision up to a customs agent somewhere...
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run for the border