Cleaning a gig bag

[greenbean]

There was a recent question about how to clean grubby gig bags in another thread this week. I thought I would share my experience here.

I had a moderately-grubby Reunion Blues SF tuba bag that my B&M Marzan tuba lives in. I took it to my local laundromat, confirmed that the music pocket was empty, removed the RB-SF label from the inside, turned the bag inside-out, and put it in a large washing machine. I chose the middle size machine and added a typical amount of detergent for a load that size. (If the bag had had areas of extreme grubbiness, I would have sprayed it with some kind of detergent and let it sit for an hour or so and then scrubbed it with a brush.) I added an extra rinse cycle for the heck of it and donated $4.50 to the machine. After taking it home, I dried in my dryer on "low heat" for 45 minutes or so. I kept the bag inside-out for all of this. I also spread it out on top of a couple kitchen chairs to continue drying overnight to be on the safe side.

It looks MUCH better! And the leather parts were unaffected by this.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/c2hY3Kyd9Qb6BbXQ7

[bloke]

I’m sure that several of us appreciate this.
We probably were mostly concerned about how much heat foam padding could withstand.

[Sousaswag]

Thank you for this! I will be taking mine over the weekend. I'll report back...

[tofu]

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[Nworbekim]

the bags that came with my horn, after getting the dust off, look new...

i hung them from the door tracks in the garage and used a big shop vac on them then sprayed them with febreze... if they've been used, it was very little.

[bloke]

Soon after we started using Febreze on things, we ended up selling our washing machine.

[Nworbekim]

Soon after we started using Febreze on things, we ended up selling our washing machine.

these were dusty from being stored on a shelf somewhere, i guess... the dust came off easily but there was still a little "closet" smell (my wife calls it) of being stored away. the febreze freshened them up.

if our washing machine ever tears up i'll have to try your idea...

[YorkNumber3.0]

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