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I would like to buy a gig bag for my Pt-7p. I know it’s a rare tuba, but I figured I’d ask.

BUMP!

It’ll fit in a bag cut for most other 6/4 CC tubas, no?

matt g wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 2:25 pm It’ll fit in a bag cut for most other 6/4 CC tubas, no?

It’s a good bit taller than your average 6/4 Cc.

Ah ok. I didn’t remember the VMI Neptune being all that tall, but I’m also playing a 2165 which is taller than the York copies.

I believe my PT-7 was 39" tall, same as the Neptune. Just a more reasonable sized bell diameter on the 7. Excellent tuba, but wasnt so great for me to reach all the way around for the pistons AND handle the big valves. I was on my way to learning how to handle that just fine, but got a trade offer I couldn't refuse and did that instead. My PT-7 was a really nice tuba that could sing, support, or obliterate, and was a really fun combination of 6/4, not a York-style, and not a Kaiser. I really miss that tuba.

My tuba came with a Gotz bag that the original owner had bought with the tuba, sometime in 2000. It was well worn out, but also had admirably done it's job of protecting the tuba in the cargo hold of an airplane from Venezuela to Miami... And then under a bus from Miami to Minnesota. A miracle the tuba got here at all!

I, as well, never found a used bag that would fit, and was prepping myself to buy a new Gotz before I sold the horn.

Actually, I think when I traded the 7, the next tuba was returned to me in that same Gotz bag (which was planned, not a surprise!), so the now-owner of that next tuba has the original Got bag.

Also not useful:

When I got my VMI Neptune (around 1999?), it had no case for about 6 weeks while I waited for a custom Dolly Bag to arrive. Those bags were heavy but that horn stayed dent free.

I got a guard gig bag for very cheap, so I will see if that works for the time being.

LargeTuba wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:16 am I got a guard gig bag for very cheap, so I will see if that works for the time being.

I bet someone handy could but an extra zipper on a Gard and make it a side-top loader...

So many people seem willing to sell off those LARGE ProTec bags for way less than they paid...

I wonder how much a luggage-and-shoe-repair place would charge to shorten the handles and lower (so it sits higher on a person's back) the straps...

Our friend in Ohio (in the business owners' forum) has some nice high-end 6/4 bags.

bloke wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 4:25 pm So many people seem willing to sell off those LARGE ProTec bags for way less than they paid...

I wonder how much a luggage-and-shoe-repair place would charge to shorten the handles and lower (so it sits higher on a person's back) the straps...

Our friend in Ohio (in the business owners' forum) has some nice high-end 6/4 bags.

I have one of those, it scratches the heck out of the tuba.

LargeTuba wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:59 am

bloke wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 4:25 pm So many people seem willing to sell off those LARGE ProTec bags for way less than they paid...

I wonder how much a luggage-and-shoe-repair place would charge to shorten the handles and lower (so it sits higher on a person's back) the straps...

Our friend in Ohio (in the business owners' forum) has some nice high-end 6/4 bags.

I have one of those, it scratches the heck out of the tuba.

...and fabricating an interior soft drawstring bag would define more nuisance than cost-savings...