Posted by Dale Phelps on March 12, 2002 at 13:44:02:
OK boys, enough.
If you contend a gig bag sucks and will ruin your instrument,
and that the only way to protect your instrument is with a hard case,
then why is it that thousands of us who own our own horns and use gig bags
typically have FAR better-shape instruments than all the school-owned instruments
which have hard cases?
Answer: owners apply more care to transportation and handling of their instrument.
Incidentally, you kids who wanna schlepp your new tuba de jour around in a hard case
to keep it looking pretty should ask your doctors about the cumulative effect of lugging that much weight in a lopsided fashion for say...15-20 years. You may opt for a backpack-style gig bag yet!