Hello all!
There is a company that appears to be just getting started,
(Diversified Case Company, Rome, N.Y., ph.# 800-276-1992) which makes
very rugged-looking, aluminium cases for other brass instruments. Try www.the-TANK.us
for details; while they don't have a model for horn just yet, they
are soliciting input from musicians for their design team. I've sent
them an e-mail about what I would like to see in a hard case; perhaps
other members of this list could do the same, and see what they come
up with.
Many years ago, I owned a Lewis horn; it came with a ZERO Halliburton
(sp.?) aluminium case, with a fairly dense, foam interior, cut to
accept the corpus and the bell of the horn. This was the only case
that I ever owned that survived being in checked baggage. I took it on
tour once, and witnessed it being thrown (yes, thrown!) by the baggage
handlers/manglers into the belly of the aircraft. My heart sank; but,
when we arrived at our destination, I was amazed. The case had a
couple of dents and the paint was chipped, but the horn survived
without a scratch.
Lucky? Perhaps. But, I've never checked a horn since. My Marcus Bona
(screw-bell style) fits in the overhead bin.
Sincerely,
martin bender
On 1-Feb-09, at 4:28 PM, Jeremy Cucco wrote:
Do you mean you've walked 5 to 6 miles with the fixed bell Bonna
case? Or
do you mean the cut bell case? I'll agree that my MB5 is a breeze
to carry,
but I've tried many fixed bell hard cases (including the Bonna) and
found
them to be uncomfortable.
I would actually suggest that a gig bag has a greater potential to
provide
protection than a hard case (notice, I said potential, not that they
do in
practice). In a gig bag, if the horn is jarred significantly, it
has the
room to move and thus disperse the energy throughout the case itself.
Whereas, in a hard case, if the horn is jarred, it has no room to
move and
thus the energy is dispersed through the metal causing all sorts of
problems
(dents occasionally being the least of the problems). The
difficulty with
gig bags is designing on that will provide enough rigidity as to not
allow a
quick, pointed attack to the case without causing that initial
damage yet
still the flexibility to allow the horn to work itself into the
padding when
hit.
I will say, I've played some outdoor concerts in some areas of DC
where I
wished I had a Kevlar gig bag... :-O
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Yates [mailto:yateslawre...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 4:18 PM
To: The Horn List
Subject: Re: [Hornlist] "Dent" bags
Hi,
No, I thnk we're talking at cross purposes.
When someone says "gig bag" I think of the soft fabric "BAG". I
think of
the Marcus Bonna as a gig bag type "CASE" - it's hard, it protects the
instrument, it's light and it's portable.
The gig "BAG" is light and portable but it doesn't protect.
If even the Marcus Bonna case is too heavy (I've regularly walked 5
or 6
miles with mine) then maybe a bag is the only answer.
Cheers,
Lawrence
2009/2/1 Jeremy Cucco <jer...@sublymerecords.com>
Lawrence -
Maybe I'm missing something, but I believe he's made his objection
quite
clear numerous times in every e-mail he's sent. Weight and form
factor
are
the objections. Frankly, if I had a fixed bell horn, I would
object to
hard
cases for the same reasons. However, I've used some gig bags in
the past
on
my detachable bell horns and have almost always had bad luck
regarding
dents.
The one notable exception is the Reunion Blues leather gig bag,
which, in
my
opinion, offers better protection than many fixed bell cases.
Cheers-
Jeremy
Lawrenceyates.co.uk
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