The TSA Destroys Bigger Instruments, Too
Poland's concert pianist Krystian Zimmerman lost a whole piano to the TSA:

Zimerman has had problems in the United States in recent years. He travels with his own Steinway piano, which he has altered himself. But shortly after 9/11, the instrument was confiscated at JFK Airport when he landed in New York to give a recital at Carnegie Hall. Thinking the glue smelled funny, the TSA decided to take no chances and destroyed the instrument. Since then he has shipped his pianos in parts, which he reassembles by hand after he lands. He also drives the truck himself when he carries his instrument from city to city over land, as he did after playing a recital in Berkeley on Friday.

Lisa Simeone, who emailed me the linke, wrote: "I think the LA Times probably got their agencies conflated; I bet it was CBP again and not TSA that destroyed his piano."