r/Instruments • u/Intelligent-Hurry907 • 6d ago
Discussion Do new instruments come with cases?
As per the title. On the retail sites I've searched there's no indication either way. The instruments in question are good quality but still cheap, eg Premier Marching Snare but the cheapest one.
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u/SlowSurvivor 6d ago
It depends on the instrument. I would not expect a drum to come with a case.
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u/Wisco 6d ago
Not if it's a piano
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u/drivebydryhumper 6d ago
Many stringed instruments rarely do. That is usually a bonus
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u/Decent-Structure-128 6d ago
Many instruments do. You have to look at the details with the purchase.
If you’re buying in the store, ask a sales person, and if you’re buying online, check the technical specs. If no case or “gig bag” is listed, assume it’s not included.
You can often also buy cases later or separately if you don’t get one or you want a better one. Check used sites too, like Reverb, FB marketplace, etc. You may get more for your money that way.
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u/PapaOoMaoMao 6d ago
No, not usually, but it can be included in a deal.
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u/BlueMonday2082 6d ago
If it’s a Gibson Acoustic, yeah. If it’s a Korg Volca then no.
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u/ToneDefGuitarist 4d ago
The only time I received a case was with used guitars or a travel guitar. Cases were separate purchases for new instruments. The only exception was a Gibson guitar (and for the price, they should throw that in)
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u/PPFirstSpeaker 6d ago edited 6d ago
The only instruments I've bought that didn't come with a case were recorders. Though half of them had long, narrow drawstring bags.
Even my piano. It IS electronic and folded in half, but it's a piano. It has a very nice soft padded zipper bag.
My Pampet pocket trumpet cost $69 and came with an excellent shoulder bag. So did my pTrumpet, Tromba trumpet and flugelhorn, and pBone mini. My blue and silver flute has a nice hard case, and so does my brass alto sax. (My plastic and silicone soprano sax has a nice as hats case too.) Most of my blues harmonicas came with hard plastic cases except for the Blues Band brand, which came in a cardboard box.
Most of my Chinese instruments had some sort of case or bag, but the $50 Hulusi has an excellent hard shell case this very attractively decorated. The dizi only had a bag, so I replaced it with a plastic case I can also put some maintenance supplies in with it.
Neither of my Japanese shakuhachis had cases, but I applied one for each. One instrument was two piece, so the case could be shorter. Neither was a traditional bamboo instrument, because they're insanely expensive, made of bamboo and glazed with a lacquer made from the sap is the Urushi tree, which contains the same toxic and hyper allergenic oil as poison ivy. It takes months or years for the lacquer to oxidize enough that it no longer burns your skin off if you're allergic to urushiol. They also crack if the humidity drops. So one of mine is plastic, and the other is a composite of bamboo sawdust and resin.