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eeflattuba wrote:I currently own two tubas. A bbflat Yamaha neo and a besson sovereign 981 ee flat.I own two high end gig bags but have always preferred to carry my assets in their respective hard cases.My repair tech greatly appreciates it.I am no spring chicken... I am 57 years old and sometimes it is a struggle to carry them in this fashion, especially in this part of the world.It would seem that not many of us use the hard case anymore.Am I right on this?

I think you are right. I use a well padded gigbag (Gard) myself, and the tuba gets the back seat in the car, or a snugly fitted place in the trunk of our Nissan Leaf, but some dents and scratches are unaviodable. The hard case is too big and clumsy, so that is used only for transportation anywhere else than my car. Fortunately, that does not occur very often.

The other tubists in the band that I know of, also mostly use gigbags, so there are only a very few hard(case)liners left.