Author: jhoyla
Date: 2009-11-25 06:56
Mike, you forgot the most important drawback of the Loree, Marigeaux etc. traditional case:
o It does not protect the instrument from shock.
All of these cases are very carefully made, by craftsmen who have no idea how to protect from shock. They build the case from wood and velvet, 1.5 mm of softness between the wood or keywork of your instrument and the wood of the case.
The BAM, ProTec etc. cases have several centimetres of compressible foam between the instrument and the case sides. True, you can't sit on them - but they do absorb shock with no damage to the instrument.
I have a crack in the top joint of my old instrument far, far away from any of the tone holes - it is centred around the 1st octave uppermost post. The oboe was in its case, in an outer case with a thin foam lining, when the whole bag dropped one foot onto a solid surface. The crack was caused by the shock of the instrument hitting the inner frame (wood) of the traditional case. The velvet did not help.
J.
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