From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017071610273494630-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > It was a sorta freak thing.  I could " toss " that case in the back of my   
   > van a 100 times and not hit that wall bracket again.  Sitting in my chair   
   > staring at the guitar yesterday, it is apparent that one inch farther up   
   > the case, or down the side and no damage would have occured. Then again,   
   > I've carried that guitar in that padded gig bag for at least two years,   
   > and one just now did my luck run out.   
      
   It shouldn't have to be a matter of 'luck'...gig bags should be made to   
   protect better.   
      
   > I broke a key off one of my old synths a few years back ... thatnks to   
   > carrying it in a gig bag and having something loaded in on top of it.   
      
   Jim   
      
   That putting something on top of a keyboard inside a gig bag is something   
   I'm going to have to deal with when I get my 2 tier keyboard stand and start   
   hauling my relatively heavy DX7 synth along with my CDP-130 piano...but I'll   
   probably put the lighter piano in its gig bag on top of the DX7, which is in   
   a case that not a hard shell, but is considerably stronger than a gig bag   
   and spaced off dimenionally inside to provide clearance, which means that it   
   keyboard inside shouldn't be contacted in any way by the piano I'll be   
   putting on top of it.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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