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Double Bass flight cases
- Thread starter PeteRobinsonBas
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- Dec 13, 1999
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- Chuck Sher publishes my book, WALKING BASSICS:The Fundamentals of Jazz Bass Playing.
I've only used the old Gage case (there's a new, lightweight one), worked fine for me. Domestic flights only...
I use a Stevenson and its been on the road about 200 days a year for the last 3 years. They are bigger and heavier than a Gage trunk and use foam bricks in the interior for padding as opposed to inflatable protection.
Fortunately I haven't had any problems. It gets a lot of abuse. Alan Stevenson is very good to deal with and I would definitely recommend his trunks.
Fortunately I haven't had any problems. It gets a lot of abuse. Alan Stevenson is very good to deal with and I would definitely recommend his trunks.
- Dec 13, 1999
- 11,736
- 8,941
- 70
- Disclosures
- Chuck Sher publishes my book, WALKING BASSICS:The Fundamentals of Jazz Bass Playing.
Hey Marshall, what's been your experience with flying these days? I know Neal had to ship his trunk out to the midwest for some hits with Jane, because it wasn't certain if he was gonna be able to get it on the plane, even paying oversize/overweight (he sort of talks about it, in passing, in that little film he made about Dennis' bass...). Does getting some movement on the "airline instrument bill" make things easier yet?
Hi Ed. I'm still hoping to get together and play Dennis Irwin's Green Room.
There are definitely some destinations where shipping in a truck makes more sense.
We use a service called Rockit Cargo. Their whole business is to move instruments everywhere. They use air and freight to do it. I never actually see the bass except when I arrive at the hall. For that reason I'm out of the loop as far as how hard it is to get it on flights or if there has been a change since the new law was passed. We are in Florida right now and the gear is all being moved by truck. Some of the dates have required the driver to drive all night.
When I met Alan Stevenson he told me he had heard confirmed stories of airport workers having contests to see what would happen to a bass trunk ( and the bass inside)if it was dropped from different heights. Pretty scary stuff.
There are definitely some destinations where shipping in a truck makes more sense.
We use a service called Rockit Cargo. Their whole business is to move instruments everywhere. They use air and freight to do it. I never actually see the bass except when I arrive at the hall. For that reason I'm out of the loop as far as how hard it is to get it on flights or if there has been a change since the new law was passed. We are in Florida right now and the gear is all being moved by truck. Some of the dates have required the driver to drive all night.
When I met Alan Stevenson he told me he had heard confirmed stories of airport workers having contests to see what would happen to a bass trunk ( and the bass inside)if it was dropped from different heights. Pretty scary stuff.
- Dec 13, 1999
- 11,736
- 8,941
- 70
- Disclosures
- Chuck Sher publishes my book, WALKING BASSICS:The Fundamentals of Jazz Bass Playing.
I don't travel enough to make that an option, unfortunately. I DO remember flying out of Newark in July and sitting in the gate waiting room watching my bass (in the Gage case) sitting, upside down neck first, in one of those canvas luggage carts on the tarmac, in direct sunlight, in 98+degree weather.....
