u/Mdsk8rrunr

My son plays trombone and we are planning on spending a year abroad in NZ. The school there doesn’t have loaners and ideally he’d like to take his own trombone. Shipping from US to NZ is expensive (and I worry about damage). We’ve never tried to fly with an instrument but it sounds like it probably couldn’t be taken as a carry-on and some have expressed concern about checking it even in a hard case. It’s about $3000 so we really don’t want to damage it. Is renting one there our best option or are there good safe ways to get his there?