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Thread #106653   Message #2920403
Posted By: SteveMansfield
04-Jun-10 - 07:46 AM
Thread Name: Instrument cases: Anyone DIY?
Subject: RE: Instrument cases: Anyone DIY?
While we're on the subject, I've had great results from using camera tripod bags for flutes & whistles. A single tripod bag will carry a session's-worth of instruments, and the more fragile wooden instruments can be further insulated by buying a length of the appropriate diameter drainpipe and having that sit inside the tripod bag. In this very way the rauschpfeife has survived all attacks from agents of the Noise Abatement Society throughout Europe.

Apart from my general gig-bag which is several years old & still going strong, the best one I got was a tripod bag from Calumet which fitted my soprano shawm as if it had been made specially ...