Tuba gig bag Colors?

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Re: Tuba gig bag Colors?

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I ordered a bag from Altieri once, and they were able to give me a really nice floral pattern on one of the panels. The rest of the bag is black. It looks a bit like aunt Millie's drapes, but I have a cool and distinctive gig bag that no one will ever confuse for anyone's but mine. I think some patterns like camo, zebra, paisley, etc. would be nice on a small accent panel. You wouldn't have to stock yards of it, just maybe interesting remnants big enough to use on a single pocket or panel, or something. Gig bags are pretty boring. Even a leather bag might have a single heavy duty patterned fabric somewhere.

If you're a custom manufacturer, personalization is really the next step. I know tuba players are a little conservative, but I'll bet there are folks who draw outside the lines here and there.

If you ever started making a lower level line of bags/cases aimed at pre-professionals, having some audacious options would give you an edge with the younger crowd.

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Re: Tuba gig bag Colors?

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In college, I somehow conned Ms Altieri (Not sure if that was her name but you know who I mean), into making me a red gig bag (she used the material she used for the red piping on her standard bag). She had only done that for one other person (who I knew) and didnt really want to.

Anyway years later, it wore on me and I wished I had just gotten a black bag. :facepalm2:
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A classic Cronkhite combination bag that I had for several years and really liked. Tan sides and dark brown where the zipper travelled on a side loader bag with a dark brown pocket. :thumbsup:
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Two classic Cronkhite combination bags that I had for several years and really liked. Tan sides and dark brown where the zipper travelled on a side loader bag with a dark brown pocket. :thumbsup: Also, green sides and then black where the zipper travelled on another side loader bag with a black pocket. :thumbsup:
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prairieboy1 wrote: Fri Sep 04, 2020 1:01 pm A classic Cronkhite combination bag that I had for several years and really liked. Tan sides and dark brown where the zipper travelled on a side loader bag with a dark brown pocket. :thumbsup:
Yes, I liked that combination as well! :thumbsup:
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I had this bag made custom out of leather for a very small Eb I had. I always thought it was a classic color combo, and looked great in leather
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Delaware Blue and Gold.

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bort2.0 wrote: Thu Sep 03, 2020 6:08 pm FYI, these are the options for Gotz bags.

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Have to admit, the Royal Blue and the Yellow (9, and 8)... I'm into that. Yellow with black handles / straps / zippers works in a "so ugly its cool" way, but I grew up in Maryland and we LOVE our "colorful" flag....
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kingrob76 wrote: Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:50 pm
bort2.0 wrote: Thu Sep 03, 2020 6:08 pm FYI, these are the options for Gotz bags.

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Have to admit, the Royal Blue and the Yellow (9, and 8)... I'm into that. Yellow with black handles / straps / zippers works in a "so ugly its cool" way, but I grew up in Maryland and we LOVE our "colorful" flag....
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Re: Tuba gig bag Colors?

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When I had my 187, I got a Cronkite bag with blue sides and black trim around the zippers. Now that I have my 496, when my Miraphone gig bag finally needs to be replaced, I will get another Cronkite bag, or whatever that bag has become and will see if I can get it with more than 2 colors. If I can, I'm gonna go wild!!
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Re: Tuba gig bag Colors?

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Were I going to manufacture and sell cordura gig bags, this would be my run down:

Black
Dark Navy Blue
Royal Blue
Purple
Forest Green (ish)
Grey
Burgundy
Red
Yellow

I would reserve the brown colors for leather.

And black lining. Nothing but black lining, ever.
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Re: Tuba gig bag Colors?

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Medium or dark green. It makes a bag stand out in a sea of black bags without being flashy; that definitely helps at a big TubaChristmas.
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Re: Tuba gig bag Colors?

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Black.

Seriously, though, I own four ukulele bags with this or very similar patterns that I really like. How the exterior material would fare on a tuba bag is anyone's guess, but if it was only on the main, outer panel I think a responsible person would see it last for many years. If I could get a full-Cordura bag body with reinforcing leather contact patches AND with this banket material installed on top of the Cordura on the main face of the bag I would get one as soon as I could afford it. I might get as many as four of them, depending on the price.

I am not "in" to bright colors at all, but am into dense patterns with dark or muted colors.

Teal? Puce? Chartreuse? No thank you.

This blanket-looking stuff? Heck yeah. Take my money.

This is just a random image from a quick Google image search. It is similar to what I like. The material looks like it might be fuzzy, and therefore, easy to mess up if you use it a lot or if it gets wet. But that sort of pattern is still very cool and I would likely purchase something like this, skinned over a Cordura shell.
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This is an actual bag I own. It is a sales image from Amazon, but my bag is itendtical in the material, which is some tightly woven industrial grade fiber that is not all warm and soft like a blanket, but it looks great (well, to ME, that is) and has survived a number of rainy days and lots of direct sunlight over the years I have owned it. A tough, long-lived Cordura bag with the outer panel skinned with this material in this pattern would cause me to empty my pockets in a huge vomit of filthy lucre. No joke. I have been waiting for such a bag for years.
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Pretty weird, I know. But you asked, and are a good enough businessman to at least listen to the more… let's say "esoteric"… customer feedback.

Thanks for listening, and not laughing directly in my face. :cheers:

PS - Yes, I know this sort of woven stuff would tend to snag, if the owner is careless. I am not careless with my gear, and know that many here are also not careless. Having the sides and the strap-bearing face made from genuine Cordura would cover just about all "wounds" as the outer panel does not come into contact with all that much - again - if the owner is careful.
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Re: Tuba gig bag Colors?

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Update...

I have expanded my Cordura color choices! The line-up is:

Black
Smoke (a dark gray)
Burgundy
Vintage Navy (a faded-looking navy)
Navy Blue (the real deal)
Forest Green
Dark Brown
Tan
Red
Purple

I also have some new lining colors:

Blue
Coral (a bit lighter than burgundy)
Marigold

Here is a tuba and euphonium bag we made this week. Tuba is in Forest Green and euphonium is Tan & Dark Brown. The leather is Chocolate on both of them. I am realizing that the more colors I have, the more cool two-color combinations are possible!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/WezKHcj5SGFZxH1c6

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