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I know someone who ordered a tuba from Miraphone with a detachable bell. So they will do it. Someone like Matt Walters or Dan Oberloh could do it; but I'll bet you don't want to pay what they would charge.

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I've moved over to hard cases - as I've discussed several times. I bought a handle - that was just like the original handle - for my Jakob Winter case that I'm using with my F tuba, and - just as with the original, LOL - it broke. My expensive bags are hanging overhead in the master bath on a rack I made for them outside my closet, because I just don't want to stick them in a box and put them in the attic, but they're a bit of trouble to get down. Yesterday - when I had to play with a cut down version of the Memphis Symphony for a concert at an elementary school, I just took the tuba by itself and laid it vertically in the front passenger seat with the bottom bow on the carpeted floor and I seat belted it in (no blanket / no nothing). It traveled fine. I walked out with one of the trumpet players who asked me where my bag is, and I told him all this. LOL. He was born 14 years after the F tuba was manufactured - which I bought new when approximately his age.

Handle on my violin case kept breaking too, and that weighs a whole lot less than a tuba case. I took some rope and made enough loops to have a handle, and that lasted way longer than the commercial ones.