MaryAnn: Messina Bag Photos

[anadmai]

Some of us goofballs have stopped using bags, because we've grown weary of dent removal - even when we can do it ourselves.

Agreed. Wasn't it @Rick Denney that coined the term Dent Bag? I have seen that term used in this thread yet.

I remember them being called "Dent Bags" in the early to mid 90s. The biggest dent on my Euphonium is due to said type of bags.

[peterbas]

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[bloke]

OK. We won't !

[Oedipoes]

The last time I used my bike (wearing a black suit) was when I had a VERY limited time to get from here to here:

- jump on my bike and RIDE (in my black suit, with the tuba on my back) past ALL of the .5 mph cars jammed up on campus
(with a whole bunch of people heard saying to each other: "We should have though of that!")

I bike to rehearsals weekly, with the BBb kaisertuba on my back.
Works for me! (with a bag obviously, I have no hard case for it)
I have a bag for my sousaphone as well when we have a marching gig in town, looks a bit like a turtle on a bike from a distance

I bike to work daily 20km one-way, so it would be silly for me to take the car out to drive 2km to the band room...

[Wally]

I remember the 1970's when then University of Illinois tuba professor Dan Perantoni would ride across campus on a bike with his tuba in a gig bag on his back! I have used gig bags for nearly 50 years with few problems. Ironically, the worst damage a tuba has suffered was when it rode luggage on a plane while secured in a hard case. The next time I flew with it it rode in a bag and had it's own seat.

[bloke]

I wasn't crazy about using the bag and I wasn't crazy about using the bag on a bicycle, but - without that strategy - I couldn't possibly have made it past at least a mile of cars jammed up in a major American University campus to the basketball arena in the center of the campus, and done so by time to start playing - given the time I had between the end of the last gig (80 miles away) in the beginning of that gig.

I still have all of my California bags, but they're pulled out only one I have to use them for some reason such as the above. My largest thinnest tuba has no matching accommodating bag, and will not.