Do you keep your hard cases?

[donn]

Yeah, the Kanstul is like 35-40 pounds without a case. That hard case is at least another 15 pounds, and incredibly awkward to walk with, even with my stature. I guess I could get a hand truck/cart, but it's hard enough to put in the car as is.

Interesting, mine is only about 25 lbs (4V + kicker), but the case is 25 lbs too, so adds up about the same. Murder to carry around.

[bloke]

My extremely large B-flat weighs 70 pounds when I’m very tired but only weighs 27 pounds when I’m well-rested.

bloke “If meteorologists are supposed to be ‘pure scientists’ - and can presume that things ‘feel like’ this or that to all other individuals, I can do that with carrying tubas around, can I not?”

[BopEuph]

Ha! I never weighed it, I just read somewhere that it's 35 pounds. It definitely shifts me backwards for a second when I put it on my back, and I'm 210. I find myself leaning forward to center myself again.

But yeah, that case weight. I was thinking about how bad an idea it was to put it up so high in the garage when I almost dropped it.

[bloke]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304475914370

[kingrob76]

I keep my cases because I have physical space to use them and find it a good place to keep a horn that I don't want "out" for any reason. I rarely use them to transport a horn if I can avoid it, but have been known to use them for that purpose on the rare occasion. They are not protection for shipping, but they are protection for "dumb *hit happening in my basement" which has been known to happen. If I were to buy a horn that did not include a case I wouldn't actively seek one out, but I would probably acquire one if I saw the right deal on a used one.

[bloke]

Now that I’m actually carrying hard cases to gigs, I’m finding that I’m also keeping a piece of corrugated cardboard from a shipping carton in my car, because I’m taking the instrument out of the case at the vehicle most often, and I’m setting the instrument on its bell – on the cardboard on pavement – before carrying the instrument into the venue on my shoulder.
(I am certain that most of the annoying dings and dents that I was getting in my instruments occurred when they were in bags in my cars.)
If I was one of you guys who carries a music stand and a tuner and a bunch of screwdrivers and spare parts and various oils and lights and multiple mouthpieces and reading material and all that jazz in the side pocket of a gig bag, I don’t know what the hell I would do.