Where do you store your hard case after you got a gig bag?

[Z-Tuba Dude]

I keep the cases in the garage. They are right there, if you need to put them in the car. Very handy.

[VinnyFromBrooklyn]

i know what case your talking about it is a relatively big case personally id choose the hard case over the gig bag(i just like having the protection) but if your not going to use the hard case i would suggest selling it at my music store there new for $1153.85 you could make a nice chunk of change nut if you are going to use it i would not store it in your attic id try a cooler place like possibly a closet
Good luck!

[Chadtuba]

For the last year (the amount of time I have owned a hard case) it has been stored in the band room while I finished my masters. I'm in the process of cleaning out my TA office this week so it will be going into the garage for the time being. I'll be putting the tuba in the gig bag in the hard case and storing it in the garage. The euphonium and the trombone hard cases have all been in the garage for the last two years, my band room the two years before that, and the garage before that. None have suffered in any way because of this.

All that being said, the tuba and euphonium cases will continue to stay in the garage, or my band room if there is room, but the trombone cases are probably being sold soon as my Altieri case offers better protection than the cheap case it came with and the other bone case is an extra.

[Sandlapper]

Thank you, everyone, for all the great ideas! Due to the distance I have had to park the car from the practice or gig sites, with occasional non paved walk ways, the narrow wheel base on the King case makes it just a bear to get from the car to where the horn gets used, especially when playing in church and having to climb a flight of stairs, two flights if we play from the balcony. And never mind small cars, it doesn't even fit in the trunk of a full size car when three of us ride to band practice in another town, which is a bit of a drive. For that matter, neither does a gig bag, but my friends are far more comfortable with the gig bag on the back seat of their cars than the hard case so even though I agree with the idea that the horn is better off in a hard case all the time, for me the practical issue is if I want to play, gig bag it is. But it certainly is a thought to store the horn in the hard case and stuff the gig bag somewhere it will fit until needed.

Thanks,

John