Some threads on this site and on The Session regarding stolen instruments have caught my attention of late. It prompts me to start a discussion with the question, does anyone here ever leave their flute or whistle unattended when anywhere except among friends (and only friends)? I’d never do so. Flutes are just too portable for yours truly to risk the loss. What do you think?
Mine never leave my sight.
Simple answer: no. I never leave my flute unattended, since it will be removed and maybe destroyed.
No.
Long time no see/chat Alan.
I take mine to the bar when I am ordering a pint. I like the way it looks laying across the bar.
I use to do the same. don’t mind if people thinks I’m paranoic…
I was down the pub a couple of nights ago, left my flute on the backseat of the car. Been in the pub a couple of hours when I realised I hadn’t locked the car doors!!! Feck!! I ran out to the car park, but it was too late!!! The back door was open and the back seat was full of flute cases, 6 or 7 Rudalls had been thrown in, 3 boxwood Wilkes, 4 6-key Dave Williams and 8 6-keyed Olwells!!! I went into a deep depression
I take mine to the bar when I am ordering a pint.
I take mine to the bar for a pint of its own.
Steamie, shame on you-- that’s an old accordion joke.
“Steamie, shame on you-- that’s an old accordion joke” JD
Yeah I know, or banjo or bodhrán jest. Works on flutes and pipes too though
I never leave mine unattended away from home… this is especially important when on the road since I drive a jeep with a soft top which has absolutely no security whatsoever.
I can see how they might be easy to forget in a cab or slip away backstage if you were always carrying them (especially if you have multiple instruments) around with you…
I’d take the my flute to the bar with me, but it seems to have awful expensive taste, the whistles are definitely a cheaper date. 
I have an old Jeep , those things ride rough, I’ve often worried about my flute (sitting on the seat in it’s fully padded hardshell case) and fearing it rattling around too much…
It should have it’s own seatbelt. 
This one’s a 97 TJ model with the coil springs and offroad suspension, so a much gentler ride. However, considering the trail to my cabin is a mostly a rutted elk path that crosses a river seven times and is full of clay and mud and boulders, the flute still needs a seatbelt 
The upside is that the only people who want to steal my flute out here are various raccoons and bears, although the ravens seem fond of the silver rings 
it was on march 2008 at the hamilton’s flute fest…
I was having a nice lunch with others flutist
and I’ve found, just near the chair, a box with a 6k Morvan… a nice one…
and… well a Jean Micheal Veillon’s one!
the flute has been immidiatly turn back to his awsome owner…
ps
JMV you’re still in debt of a couple of pints!