Carrying mouthpieces & junk?

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:46 am

I like the ones I have from Dollybags. They have a (two-blower) mouthpiece pouch that is leather with heavy-duty zippers and foam protection. There is also room in there for two bottles of Al Cass oil (which are the bottles I use for my homemade oil varieties), a small tuner or stun-gun, pencils, and perhaps a bottle of cologne or money-clip (for the ladies).

trseaman · Post by **trseaman** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:50 am

Dylan King wrote:stun-gun

Oh boy!!!

I've been using a shaving bag lately. It holds everything I need and thereâ€™s room for more! I had a Dollybag for a while but I left it on the top of my SUV after a concert and lost two great MP's... I asked them if they would put a wrist strap on one side and he agreed but I could never get a price quote. I think they're a little email challenged or probably just very busy!! Just yesterday I was thinking that a larger Dollybag version that would also hold a music folder might be pretty cool. (Is anyone listening???)

There are lots of different options and you just have to find what works best for you... Good luck!

Tim

Casey Tucker · Post by **Casey Tucker** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:58 am

i just tote around a laptop bag. it has several compartments that help keep all of my mouthpieces, valve oils, slide greases, tuner, met, all of my music and whatever i want at the time. and they come in a variety of sizes, shapes, colors and costs. office depot would be your best bet. good luck.

-casey

tubatom91 · Post by **tubatom91** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:25 pm

I've been using a Swiss Army (Wenger) messenger bag for a little while now going back and forth to school. It can fit the big Vinyl folder my high school gave me and it has a bunch of little pockets and zippered compartments(it SHOULD be used as a lap-top bag). I can fit most of my school books in it as well. Great for multi tasking musicians...

lgb&dtuba · Post by **lgb&dtuba** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:43 pm

I use the largest open top tote from Lands End:

Plenty of room for music books, accessories, instrument stands, music stands, mike, cables, etc. Including my stein.

Has internal pockets to keep the smaller items under control.

TubaSteve · Post by **TubaSteve** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:30 am

I am fortunate that the hard case I have for my horn has a fairly large storage box. I have a small padded leather pouch 6"x4" that I keep my mouthpiece's in, One spare, and the other in it's protective sleeve so they don't get dinged. The whole pouch fits nicely into the storage box where I also keep a can of Johnson Wax's Jubilee wax a few soft rags, oil and slide grease and laundry pins. By the way, the Jubilee works great, Favor works well too, but the Jubilee can is a great size to keep handy.
Steve

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:33 am

My wife gave me a corduroy sack-and-pucker with a drawstring that exactly fits my SS G&W mouthpiece and prevents scratches. The G&W and my old Kelly as well as my trumpet mouthpiece plus a bottle or two of valve oil all go in my trumpet case.
I have a leather valise to hold three microphones-wrapped in hand towels, three mike chords,trumpet stand, duct tape, green masking tape to mark our gear, a few tools, two power cords for EONs, a power strip and a fifty foot extension cord.

UTTuba_09 · Post by **UTTuba_09** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:01 pm

Ditto on the Swiss Army Bag, mine's their laptop bag before I got another laptop bag, it works significantly well...