SOLD: IDEAL SIZED PAIR OF REAL USA PRO FLIGHT CASES - REALLY NICE CONDITION
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2023 7:43 pm
If you are young and auditioning for jobs or schools or traveling with your tubas back and forth to summer music festivals on airplanes or any of that kind of stuff, I have two cases that you should buy. These are Walt Johnson really tough fiberglass cases. They are NOT plastic cases that look like fiberglass. They are REAL fiberglass. They are also NOT stupid fuzzy gray wooden boxes which are impossible. They are not lightweight, but if you tell me what airplane limits are for luggage weights I'll tell you what each one of these weighs with a tuba inside it.
One fits a full size (B&S, etc.) F tuba perfectly, and the other fits a 6/4 York style C tuba perfectly. They both have nice big wheels and super duty latches.
You'll probably want to come get these. There are a couple of places that I can get them to that are south and east of me that might save someone who's south or east of me a little driving time. I would imagine that someone - as the type of people I've described above - probably would want both of them. I'm willing to let go of the pair for $1,500. If you want to make an offer that you think I might consider, you won't hurt my feelings but I haven't really felt like selling them for a long time, as soon as I sell them I will need them, but I'm sort of tired of having them and not using them.
If you've never heard of these, Walt Johnson was Elvis Presley's lead trumpet player out in Vegas, he would fly around to do other gigs or for various reasons with his trumpets, the airlines would always tear us trumpets up, and he designed a couple of cases that actually protected his trumpets from airline abuse. Other people saw them and asked if he would make something similar for them, and it became a little bit of a sideline. After Elvis died, this became a full-time business for Walt and his wife. It's been a while since made these, so they aren't available new anymore. This isn't some carbon fiber gimmick thing that is lightweight and people claim is tough (but actually isn't tough). These things are tough and protective. I'm sure they weigh more than any carbon fiber case, but whatever. I'm also NOT asking something like $2,000 a piece for them. I'm asking $1,500 for the pair, and they are the exact pair that so many of you probably could use.
It's night time, but I'll put up some pictures tomorrow. They're pretty damned impressive, but aren't excessively large in relation to the size instrument they hold. These aren't like those big ugly fuzzy gray wooden boxes. These are shaped tuba cases made of thick tough fiberglass.
One fits a full size (B&S, etc.) F tuba perfectly, and the other fits a 6/4 York style C tuba perfectly. They both have nice big wheels and super duty latches.
You'll probably want to come get these. There are a couple of places that I can get them to that are south and east of me that might save someone who's south or east of me a little driving time. I would imagine that someone - as the type of people I've described above - probably would want both of them. I'm willing to let go of the pair for $1,500. If you want to make an offer that you think I might consider, you won't hurt my feelings but I haven't really felt like selling them for a long time, as soon as I sell them I will need them, but I'm sort of tired of having them and not using them.
If you've never heard of these, Walt Johnson was Elvis Presley's lead trumpet player out in Vegas, he would fly around to do other gigs or for various reasons with his trumpets, the airlines would always tear us trumpets up, and he designed a couple of cases that actually protected his trumpets from airline abuse. Other people saw them and asked if he would make something similar for them, and it became a little bit of a sideline. After Elvis died, this became a full-time business for Walt and his wife. It's been a while since made these, so they aren't available new anymore. This isn't some carbon fiber gimmick thing that is lightweight and people claim is tough (but actually isn't tough). These things are tough and protective. I'm sure they weigh more than any carbon fiber case, but whatever. I'm also NOT asking something like $2,000 a piece for them. I'm asking $1,500 for the pair, and they are the exact pair that so many of you probably could use.
It's night time, but I'll put up some pictures tomorrow. They're pretty damned impressive, but aren't excessively large in relation to the size instrument they hold. These aren't like those big ugly fuzzy gray wooden boxes. These are shaped tuba cases made of thick tough fiberglass.
