Your favorite dulcimer case!
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
This one's pretty good if you want a hard case:
I can get my Walnut Creek and possum board inside it. I bought it from Prussia Valley. And it has been on a few expeditions!
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But since I got my Dulcimer Bag Lady double gig bag, my MDs tend to go most places in that. I take two MD out to the pub or round to friends houses about twice a week using this bag and they also live in it at home. Lee made the bag slightly bigger than usual so my Galax would fit, plus my Walnut Creek and possum board:
Dave Lynch built a bomb proof case for shipping the Galax dulcimer he made for me to the UK!
I also have a standard single gig bag (one of the cheap fully zipped ones) and that is really useful for just grabbing an MD and heading out to the hills.
I put the MD in a plastic bag
inside the zipped gig bag as these bags are not waterproof. I have tested the system in our Welsh weather!!!!
After this day out with my MD it took two days to dry out the gig bag - but the MD was just fine!
I like that T.K O'Brian gig bag that Robin T owns - That looks like a tough and practical bit of kit.
I don't have a very favourite bag/case as I have found that different circumstances require different bags/cases. I travel a lot with my MDs, and I'm not that careful. I would prefer that an instrument lasts me 5 years and was played to death than 15 years but never left my house. All my instruments have dings and wear marks - it's part of the aging process - but none have been damaged whilst in their respective case or gig bag despite sharing the back of an old van with guitars p/a kit and dogs, or being carried across the Scottish and Welsh mountains or going to a BBQ on the beach with kids or being jostled around in a crowded pub on a Saturday night.
Out of them all, I use my Dulcimer Bag Lady double bag the most as it covers the widest range of my uses. Lee Felt makes great gig bags!!!
Robin
It does seem odd that we don't see more sound holes like this!
