Les Neish may have eventually returned home from the USA, but his beloved tuba took a much more interesting route home...
After a fantastic week out in Michigan with the Brass Band of Battle Creek, including the American Premiere of Brass Band Battle Creek, tuba star Les Neish enjoyed a rather eventful journey home.
After mechanical failure on the plane from Detroit, Les, Martin Armstrong and John Rudkin were heavily delayed into New York, which meant them missing their connection home to Manchester.
At this point the trio were put on the same flight the next day and put up in a rather suspect hotel, minus their bags which were full of expensive Christmas presents.
The next day and after the 7 hour flight home, the lads arrived at 9am into Manchester Airport to find all their bags had arrived except Les's tuba!
'Nil desperandum!', as Les, who now had less than 4 hours before he performed with the Tubalate group that afternoon called Ben Thomson, who depped for him.
Frantic calls to Delta airlines were made and all they could tell Les was that it his prized tuba was lost and they were trying to trace it’s location. That they did - in Madrid!
Eventually it was flown back via Frankfurt in Germany and delivered to Les's house by courier, still in one piece!!
The joys of being an international traveler!
After a fantastic week out in Michigan with the Brass Band of Battle Creek, including the American Premiere of Brass Band Battle Creek, tuba star Les Neish enjoyed a rather eventful journey home.
After mechanical failure on the plane from Detroit, Les, Martin Armstrong and John Rudkin were heavily delayed into New York, which meant them missing their connection home to Manchester.
At this point the trio were put on the same flight the next day and put up in a rather suspect hotel, minus their bags which were full of expensive Christmas presents.
The next day and after the 7 hour flight home, the lads arrived at 9am into Manchester Airport to find all their bags had arrived except Les's tuba!
'Nil desperandum!', as Les, who now had less than 4 hours before he performed with the Tubalate group that afternoon called Ben Thomson, who depped for him.
Frantic calls to Delta airlines were made and all they could tell Les was that it his prized tuba was lost and they were trying to trace it’s location. That they did - in Madrid!
Eventually it was flown back via Frankfurt in Germany and delivered to Les's house by courier, still in one piece!!
The joys of being an international traveler!
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