Hello all. I recently came across some guitar-buying advice (in the info packet for a Canadian music therapy school), and I found this:

"Buy a soft guitar case rather than a hard case. A hard case weighs three times as much as the guitar and transfers all impact energy to the guitar in the case of a fall. Do not be deceived by the cheaper cases - $40 buys a bag but little padding, $80 buys something that you can drop and sustain no damage."

Since they don't seem to be recommending a totally soft guitar bag, I assume that by "soft case" they mean those ones that look similar to hardshells but are a little flexible, something like cardboard.

I can understand that those cardboards ones are lighter than hardshells, but are they really safer? Something doesn't sound right here to me.

Marion