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Plus it’s light, which is nice when schlepping stuff through airports.īUT … I miss having some kind of shell around the thing. It’s well-padded and my pipes seem fairly coddled. And the case fits beautifully into an airplane overhead compartment. I have to remove the baritone drone-end but otherwise everything fits well.
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It’s a good stout case, though and I feel like my concert half set is pretty well-protected in it.Īnyway, a year or so ago I got tired of carrying that heavy kit and a big old pistol case full of flutes and whistles for seven or eight city blocks at a time, so I switched to a tenor saxophone gig bag ( … =455194656 ). Unfortunately, it’s rather heavy (the backpack attachment helps, though), and just a bit too big for an overhead compartment on a plane. Weight can be an issue, the flightcase has a pretty good balance between strength and weight but I am looking at lightweight cases for a set that is in the works: light weight, shoulder strap, along the lines of the bagpiper case that would probably be suitable for every day use.Īnyway … Congratulations! And huzzah for such a noble undertaking! In the past I used a Protec Viola Case ( … &ccsyn=261 ) on which I did a little home carpentry and found to be terrific. The lack of standard sizes/layout would be a problem when designing a general purpose pipecase. Ideally a case would have some features to prevent various bits rattling about and at least one pipemaker has in the past supplied sets with a custom case that would accommodate each disassembled piece secure in it’s own place. The bass reg bar comes off to make the pipes fit the case, as do the lower parts of baritone and bass drones. Even if by now the foam on the inside is disintegrating (Know a place that does case foam in Limerick?). Whether this would happen or not would probably depend on how likely its commercial success would be, and this would be greatly enhanced by your input.įor the past twenty five years or so I have been using a 27x9圆 1/2 (690x230x165mm, outside) flightcase that does the job of holding a full C set very well.
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It is the intention for this project to end up with a final design prototyped and tested and ready for production, so that the next step would actually be to go into production with it. I would hope therefore to be able to build up a picture of what this proposed case must achieve in order to tick the most boxes for the most people, with regard to travelling with your pipes. I would be delighted to hear from anyone whether in responses to this post or better yet, in private messages, who can recount their experiences good and bad, offer insights, make suggestions, send pictures etc., with regard to this project. This project was suggested by some local pipers who have been very helpful to me but I do need to gather information from farther afield, hence this post. For my final year project I am trying to design a case that is specifically for Uilleann Pipes, hopefully addressing many of the issues that exist with the generic solutions that are usually used. I am a final year student in the University of Limerick (Ireland), studying Product Design.
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I have this post on another forum as well, but need as much coverage as possible.